Who are you to judge who I am?
The following quote comes from Gary Johns's November 11 article in The Australian. Johns is a former Keating Labor government minister, but after leaving politics has headed right, working for…
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May 4, 2011
Accountability / Australian Federal Police / Bill of Rights / Commonwealth Government / Discrimination/Racism / Rule of Law
Ya reckon ya live in a democracy, do ya?
In 1991-1992 the Research School of Social Sciences at ANU conducted a national survey of 1522 Australians and asked them about their attitude to rights. The report Rights in Australia…
May 3, 2011
The annual yam festival and sex tourism
In the Trobriand Islands the annual yam festival is more than just ordinary. Nick burst out laughing when I told him I was heading for the Trobriand Islands. “I hope…
April 28, 2011
Who owns history, who owns the truth?
In an opinion piece published in the Age newspaper, Yorta Yorta man Paul Briggs (2006) angrily rejected a proposal by Federal Indigenous Affairs Minister Mal Brough that Aboriginal culture be…
April 27, 2011
Australian Defence Force / Culture / Discrimination/Racism / Equality of opportunity / Human Rights / Law Enforcement / Respect / Shared humanity
Lest we forget … or ignore
Lest we forget. It’s three words every Australian comes to know early in life, recited at Anzac and Remembrance Days, or funerals for the most recently deceased soldier. I honour…
April 25, 2011
I think white fella speaks with ill intent!
"Australians have a great sense of fairness and when you do things like that we say 'get on your bike, fella' and get back out again. Don't take advantage of…
April 21, 2011
Doubly damned: Mentally ill & Indigenous
Marlon Noble has spent a third of his life in jail, for a crime the victims are unable to recall. What’s worse, Mr. Noble has never been tried. His plight…
April 19, 2011
I will destroy the wisdom of the wise
As a prelude to this post I would like to congratulate former Solomon Islands’ Attorney-General Julian Moti on his win in the High Court. On Friday 8th April 2011 the…
April 18, 2011
Australia as “Last Bastion For The Aryan Race”
Michael Anderson, the last survivor of the four 1972 founders of the Aboriginal embassy in Canberra and leader of the 3,000 Euahlayi, says in a media release that the New…
April 13, 2011
Accountability / Corporate profit / Corporate responsibility / Corruption / Culture / Discrimination/Racism / Equality of opportunity / Human Rights / Propaganda / Respect / Rule of Law / Shared humanity / Yindjibarndi
Is Native Title worth the paper it’s written on?
At the request of one of the people mentioned in this post it has been taken down. We will review this situation and keep you informed of any progress as…
April 10, 2011
The Australian Federal Police spark racial hatred in Australia!
A WOMAN charged by counter-terrorist police with plotting a bomb attack was allegedly directed by her boyfriend - a jail inmate serving 22 years for the execution-styled killing of a…
April 7, 2011
Arc of instability / Asia-Pacific / Australian Federal Police / Commonwealth Government / Corporate profit / Corporate responsibility / Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / Equality of opportunity / Government / Human Rights / Hypocrisy / Indonesia / Law Enforcement / Rule of Law / Shared humanity
Indigeneity: the unifying factor
A cause doesn’t drive itself. It requires dedication, research and interrogation of facts to sift out the fiction, to find buried lies. That’s what I do. I search and question…
April 6, 2011
Accountability / Arc of instability / Australian Federal Police / Culture / Indonesia / RAMSI / Rule of Law
Australia tramples on indigenous peoples rights in the ‘arc of instability’
The Australian Federal Police (AFP), established in 1979, enforces Commonwealth criminal law and protects Australia's interests at a national and international level. The AFP also contracts out a general policing…
April 4, 2011
Superfluous People
For today’s post I’m borrowing a theme from Turgenev, specifically from The Diary of a Superfluous Man. As readers of Turgenev will know, much of his fiction is associated with…
April 1, 2011
‘The Australians are basically English rednecks’ – Robin Williams
Well Robin, ya ain’t wrong, mate! Anglo-Saxon ‘Australians’ whilst superficially decent, hard working Christian folk who, whilst not regular church goers, none-the-less profess to a certain spirituality, are racist! All…
March 26, 2011
Accountability / ACT Government / Australian Federal Police / Commonwealth Government / Commonwealth Ombudsman / Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / Shared humanity
perjury and perverting the course of justice strike at the heart of the administration of justice
"…each of the offences of perjury and perverting the course of justice strike at the heart of the administration of justice…" The above statement comes from Justice Bruce James's judgment…
March 21, 2011
The life of a culture depends on its transmission across generations
Following is the second installment of David Harrison’s story from member of the ‘new’ stolen generation to disaffected adult to fully fledged social activist. Over to David breaking the connection…
March 20, 2011
The `Stolen Generations’ and Cultural Genocide
Mr David Harrison is a member of the ‘new’ stolen generation and a former colleague from Canberra. I asked David a while ago if he would write a piece about…
March 16, 2011
Accountability / Australian Federal Police / Commonwealth Ombudsman / Corruption / Respect / Rule of Law
Our youth, a future of hope?
Yesterday I received a communication from a foreign school student who has an Australian Federal Police detachment in his country. His question, to me after reading my comments on Blak…
March 12, 2011
Accountability / Australian Federal Police / Commonwealth Government / Corruption / Culture / Hypocrisy / NSW Police / Rule of Law / Uncategorized
Mr Commissioner Hypocrisy doesn’t equal integrity
As part of the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Additional estimates for 2006–2007, held in February 2007, Senator Evans put the following question on notice to…
March 8, 2011