Australia's assistance to the Solomon Islands via RAMSI is tainted by the neo-colonial ambitions of European civilization.
Prejudice, expounded through twisting Christian doctrine, binds the starves the spiritual fire of marginalised people.
The following is an extract of an interview between Bambang Dharmono, former Aceh military commander and negotiator representing Indonesia for the Aceh Monitoring Mission (AMM), to lead the Presidential Unit…
Oedipus Tyrannus is perhaps the most famous of all Greek tragedies, primarily because in the fourth century BCE it was held by Aristotle in his Poetics to be a paragon…
What is self-determination? The notion of self-determination as a universal principle, whether viewed through a political, moral, or legal lens, has been and continues to be imprecise and in dire…
To forget the past is to the lose the future.
Best of the Season. This post is a little delayed, but hey, it is the Yuletide! “Does this discrepancy between reality and altruistic morality yield the positive effects which are…
“Gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and intersex Australians are part of our community we’re not nameless, faceless people who live on the margins of society. We deserve the respect and the…
As most readers of Blak and Black, indeed as most readers of any daily paper in Australia will be aware there has been an ongoing dispute between Fortescue Metals Group…
CLA has made a scathing statement about the Australian Federal Police, highlighting their lack of accountability and disregard for ACT law.
Recurrent themes in Australian politics since the events of 9/11 and the beginning of the euphemistically though erroneously named ‘war on terror’ have been national security, border protection and exporting…
Portrayal of character in The Odyssey highlights the virtue of the resilient individual who survives and prospers, despite the many who would leech off them.
White privilege operates on a system complicity in which the beneficiaries, consciously or otherwise, accept the genocide of Indigenous peoples around the world.
History is conveyed not only through the written word, but orally, through dance and through ceremony.
The progress of human society, has in different ages, presented abundance of horrors and abundance of vices, which in treating history properly, we are obliged to pass over gently, and…
The following is a modified version of an article which first appeared in the Fiji Sun on 12 September, 2011 and which Blak and Black has linked to since publishing…
Across the world the common factor in regional conflicts is inequality and no-one is immune to the consequences.
The following is a letter I received from a reader of Blak and Black and the Fiji Sun, talking about his experiences as a Pakistani/Australian living in Australia’s Capital, Canberra: Dear…
Native Title will mean nothing if the Fortescue Metals Group Solomon Hub mining project proceeds.
All in all I have to say that this has been a good week for me on the information gathering circuit. On Monday I came into possession of the Skunky…