The Human Rights Revolution
“No one shall be subject to cruel, inhuman or degrading punishment.” This statement of Article 7 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights is part of what Michael…
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November 25, 2010
Angelique, Pat and the ‘rule of law’
In my post titled Angelique, I noted that she was not the only Aboriginal person to have been discriminated against and forced out of the Australian Capital Territory Revenue Office…
November 20, 2010
Racists, Torturers and Common Criminals…The Australian Federal Police
As I have expressed in my ‘About’ page, a major consideration for me in becoming a cyber-pamphleteer was to protest about the racist and subsequent violent treatment I have been…
October 28, 2010
NT Intervention – one community’s suffering
An example of Indigenous people who are NOT scamming the system, but are still being exploited (it's basically work for the dole). These guys were better off on CDEP.
October 26, 2010
The times they are a-changin’ … or are they?
I’m going to start this post by quoting from an inspiring speech delivered by an Aboriginal woman, Christine Fejo-King, at the launch of the book “This is What We said”…
October 4, 2010
The subtleties of genocide
Adolf Hitler, Pol Pot and Joseph Stalin were at best clumsy amateurs when it came to genocide. If a political group wants to rid itself of a troublesome ethnic minority,…
September 26, 2010