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Hanson: The Dare and the Record
Culture / Discrimination/Racism / Human Rights / Law / Racial Discrimination Act / Racism / Rule of Law

Hanson: The Dare and the Record

Pauline Hanson's defintion of racism ignores both the Racial Discrimination Act and the intimation of racial superiority in her own statements.

6 Comments
October 22, 2026
What We Said Over Breakfast: Helen Haines and Division
Culture / Discrimination/Racism / Government / Racism / Uncategorized

What We Said Over Breakfast: Helen Haines and Division

Helen Haines tragedy highlights a deteriorating social climate around politicians and media, generating division in the community.

7 Comments
October 21, 2026
The Myth of Terra Nullius
Australian Aborigines / Culture / First Nations/Indigenous / Racism

The Myth of Terra Nullius

Biyaami's law does not wait for a judge ... Wiradjuri country was never terra nullius.

7 Comments
October 20, 2026
First Nations · Indigenous Culture And Politics
Australian Aborigines / Culture / First Nations/Indigenous / Human Rights

First Nations · Indigenous Culture And Politics

The culture of First Nations people was cherished by Pope John Paul II in a way few non-Indgenous people have bothered to try.

2 Comments
October 10, 2026
Songs as Archive
Australian Aborigines / Culture / First Nations/Indigenous

Songs as Archive

The carriage of history through song is not unique to Aboriginal people. It is a record of events, as important as Homer, that must be read in context.

7 Comments
October 7, 2026
Wangarr, Tjukurrpa, Ngurambang: Ceremony as the Law of Country
Australian Aborigines / Culture / First Nations/Indigenous

Wangarr, Tjukurrpa, Ngurambang: Ceremony as the Law of Country

Dreamtime and Welcome to Country are continuities of Aboriginal law, unique to each country and extending throughout time.

4 Comments
October 6, 2026
Division and the Deaf
Culture / Disability / Discrimination / Discrimination/Racism / Human Rights

Division and the Deaf

The 75th anniversary of the World Federation of the Deaf reminds us that whilst hearing impairment can result in discrimination, not all consider it a disability.

4 Comments
September 24, 2026
Poetry as a Form of Resistance: Voice, Witness, and the Defiance of Oppression
Art / Culture / Human Rights

Poetry as a Form of Resistance: Voice, Witness, and the Defiance of Oppression

Poetry is the art of remaining human, a happening, an act of resistance that even when the pages that held it are burned, lives on.

6 Comments
August 20, 2026
The Unfinished Masterpiece: Multicultural Australia as a Work in Progress
Commonwealth Government / Culture / Government

The Unfinished Masterpiece: Multicultural Australia as a Work in Progress

Australia is a ongoing multicultural masterpiece in the making.

3 Comments
July 29, 2026
The Reformed Man: Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey and the Modern Hero
Culture / Environment / Modern art

The Reformed Man: Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey and the Modern Hero

Nolan's Odysseus is a hero of insight, presented for an audience who would shy away from Homer's original more brutish ruler, heedless of those he harms.

3 Comments
July 24, 2026
The Mirage In The Distance: The Right’s Invented Golden Age
Culture

The Mirage In The Distance: The Right’s Invented Golden Age

Culture is constantly evolving, each generation inheriting portions and adding to it,, such that no one group can place a claim on it.

6 Comments
July 16, 2026
The Business Of Men: Penelope, Power and Australia’s Unfinished Reckoning
Culture / Discrimination/Racism / Sexism

The Business Of Men: Penelope, Power and Australia’s Unfinished Reckoning

Homer's The Odyssey records the earliest instance of verbal abuse of a woman, demonstrating an embedded cultural trope that requires rectifying.

8 Comments
July 14, 2026
The Enduring Legacy Of Murujuga: The International Significance Of The Mardathoonera Rock Art
Art / Australian Aborigines / Culture / First Nations/Indigenous / Human Rights / Mining / Uncategorized

The Enduring Legacy Of Murujuga: The International Significance Of The Mardathoonera Rock Art

Enforceable protections for the ancient rock art at Murujuga from the North West Shelf gas industry are critical to ensuring that it survives another fifty-thousand years.

5 Comments
July 12, 2026
The Sand Remembers What the State Forgets:  Uyghur Cultural Survival and the Architecture of Forgetting
Culture / Genocide / Human Rights / Uncategorized

The Sand Remembers What the State Forgets:  Uyghur Cultural Survival and the Architecture of Forgetting

Survival of Uyghur culture is dependent on the transmission of language and culture among its diaspora.

6 Comments
July 3, 2026
The Mirror We Refuse To Hold: Australian Culture and Male Violence
Culture / International Law / Law / Rule of Law

The Mirror We Refuse To Hold: Australian Culture and Male Violence

What will it take for Australia's leaders to address the never-ending spate of abuses perpetuated against women?

8 Comments
June 30, 2026
The Politics of Division: Hanson, Australia and Its Thirty-Year Unresolved Argument
Commonwealth Government / Culture / Government

The Politics of Division: Hanson, Australia and Its Thirty-Year Unresolved Argument

Australia needs to discuss what immigration looks like, from origins to infrastructure, community cohesion to differing norms.

2 Comments
June 26, 2026
Impossible Monoculture: Diversity, Pluralism and the Australia That Actually Exists
Culture / Discrimination / Discrimination/Racism / Diversity

Impossible Monoculture: Diversity, Pluralism and the Australia That Actually Exists

I. Two Arguments That Must Not Be Confused The case against monoculturalism in Australia rests on two distinct foundations that are often conflated, and the conflation weakens both. The first…

5 Comments
June 25, 2026
Before the Body, the Book: Palestinian Erasure and Civilisational Destruction
Culture / Genocide / Human Rights

Before the Body, the Book: Palestinian Erasure and Civilisational Destruction

Destruction of Palestinian artefacts and books, including the places of learning, are core features of genocide.

9 Comments
May 22, 2026
The Weight We Will Not Name: Domestic Violence, Masculine Culture and the Australian Crisis
Culture / Human Rights / Respect

The Weight We Will Not Name: Domestic Violence, Masculine Culture and the Australian Crisis

Domestic violence in Australia is a cultural scourge, one for which men must take responsibility to lead its eradication.

9 Comments
May 21, 2026
The Fascination with France, the French and the French Way Of Life
Accountability / Culture / Human Rights

The Fascination with France, the French and the French Way Of Life

French insists that the good life is possible, refusing the settle for second rate and pursuing all aspect of life and culture with a seriousness unique to its people.

9 Comments
May 18, 2026
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Publications

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  • RAMSI - the scion of the juggernaut of greed

    Solomon Star
    13 October 2011
  • AFP accused of fabricating evidence, yet again

    Solomon Star (Print only)
    4 October 2011
  • Moti affair

    Solomon Star
    14 September 2011
  • Moti affair

    Fiji Sun
    12 September 2011
  • Moti appeal exposes mixed loyalties and judicial corruption

    Solomon Star
    22 July 2011
  • Moti end game

    FijiSun
    22 July 2011
  • Letters to the editor: Article by Bakchos

    Solomon Star
    20 July 2011
  • Co-operate or else! AFP thuggery for a white Australia

    Solomon Star
    24 June 2011
  • The strange case of Bill Johnson, a study in neo-colonial hypocrisy

    Solomon Star
    17 June 2011
  • Neo-colonialism in the Torres Strait

    Solomon Star
    14 June 2011
  • Moti and other affairs

    Solomon Star
    9 June 2011
  • Comment: Excellent Read

    Fiji Sun
    7 June 2011

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Recent Comments

  1. Melissa on Hanson: The Dare and the Record

    Pauline Hanson says racism means believing your race is superior, that she's never said it, and that you should show…

  2. Glen on Hanson: The Dare and the Record

    I’m an Australian citizen who lives and works in South Korea at the moment. Pauline Hanson’s racism is notorious up…

  3. Kelly Conrad on Hanson: The Dare and the Record

    What a joke! Pauline Hanson claims not to be racist by her own definition of racism, which isn’t recognised by…

  4. Bakchos on Hanson: The Dare and the Record

    Most societies don’t let the dumbest members define important terms, and let’s face reality, Pauline Hansen is among the dumbest…

  5. The Faceless Freedom Fighter on Hanson: The Dare and the Record

    No amount of smoker mirror for behind the fact that Pauline Han his racist she’s built a career on racism…

  6. Bill Wheatley on Hanson: The Dare and the Record

    Imagine being so racist you have to invent your own definition of racism in order to try and convince people…

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