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Human Rights

Charles Perkins and the Unfinished Freedom Ride: A NAIDOC Week Reflection
Australian Aborigines / First Nations/Indigenous / Human Rights / Shared humanity

Charles Perkins and the Unfinished Freedom Ride: A NAIDOC Week Reflection

Perkins broke through racial barriers not to be a first, but to move the dial of disadvantage suffered by Indigenous people so that they are counted as equal.

4 Comments
July 10, 2026
The Whinger’s Litany
Human Rights / Shared humanity

The Whinger’s Litany

You disagree? You must be red.A commie, comrade – latte-fed,except it’s flat white, thanks a lot;don’t let a coffee spoil the plot."Marxist!" spat like it’s a curse,from a man who’s…

4 Comments
July 5, 2026
Conscience
Genocide / Human Rights / Shared humanity

Conscience

Truth misunderstood, dangerous in its honour, stares back at us disappointed and betrayed ...

7 Comments
July 4, 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
The Sanctioning of a Lawyer: Francesca Albanese and the Hierarchy of Human Rights
Human Rights / United Nations

The Sanctioning of a Lawyer: Francesca Albanese and the Hierarchy of Human Rights

Francesca Albanese's book, When the world Sleeps, highlights the asymmetry in international human rights.

6 Comments
June 21, 2026
Hatred: Populist Othering and Social Upheaval – Balancing the Analysis
Human Rights / Uncategorized

Hatred: Populist Othering and Social Upheaval – Balancing the Analysis

The othering of groups within society to drive political aims is an Imbalanced, failing in its basic analysis due to the inconsistent metrics applied across all groups.

7 Comments
June 11, 2026
Indonesia, West Papua and the World’s Largest Deforestation Project
Asia-Pacific / Environment / Human Rights / Indonesia / Mining / West Papua

Indonesia, West Papua and the World’s Largest Deforestation Project

The destruction of West Papua's farmland and forests represents an ecological and cultural disaster, compounding the atrocious human rights record on the island.

8 Comments
June 10, 2026
The Impact and the Distance: Friendship Across Two Decades
Human Rights / Respect / Shared humanity

The Impact and the Distance: Friendship Across Two Decades

Sometimes, the profoundness of a friendship is not fully realised until that friend is lost. We all know this. Today for Blak and Blak, for me personally, it is the…

13 Comments
June 9, 2026
The Imagination Of A Nation: Shabbat Tables, Policy Failures and the Future We Must Choose
Government / Shared humanity

The Imagination Of A Nation: Shabbat Tables, Policy Failures and the Future We Must Choose

Immigrants, most of whom came to Australia legally, are not the cause of the problems we face; that fault lies with the policies of successive governments.

4 Comments
June 5, 2026
The Oneness of Humanity: Universal Themes in Global Indigenous Creation Myths
Human Rights / Shared humanity / Uncategorized

The Oneness of Humanity: Universal Themes in Global Indigenous Creation Myths

Commonalities in Creation myths across Indigenous cultures point toward a shared origin and universal imagination.

9 Comments
June 3, 2026
G’day: A Chorus of Many Voices
Human Rights / Respect / Shared humanity

G’day: A Chorus of Many Voices

One nation? Yes – but wide as all its peoples, deep as the Dreaming, old as the first rain.

9 Comments
June 2, 2026
The Woman Who Spoke Truth To Impunity: Francesca Albanese, The United Nations, And The Price Of Conscience
Human Rights / International Law / United Nations

The Woman Who Spoke Truth To Impunity: Francesca Albanese, The United Nations, And The Price Of Conscience

I. A Room Without Empathy On 30 October 2024, Francesca Albanese – UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories – stood before the General Assembly and said what those…

9 Comments
May 31, 2026
International Law, State Violence and Australia’s Obligation to Its Citizens
Human Rights / Shared humanity

International Law, State Violence and Australia’s Obligation to Its Citizens

Australia must formalise a response to the detention and mistreatment of its citizens by Israeli authorities participating the Global Freedom Flotilla.

4 Comments
May 23, 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
We Were All Made In The Image: On othering, humanism and the Enlightenment legacy
Australian Aborigines / Australian Federal Police / Discrimination/Racism / First Nations/Indigenous / Human Rights / Racism / Refugees / Shared humanity

We Were All Made In The Image: On othering, humanism and the Enlightenment legacy

Far from being a footnote in history, the Enlightenment remains a challenge to the racism and exclusion plaguing Australia and the world.

8 Comments
May 16, 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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    Mr Marina’s “friends in the AFP” have shielded him from accountability, both criminal and civil for over two decades, which…

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    I've come back to this poem as we await the High Court's ruling on the proscription of the White Australia…

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    The more I read about this situation the more uncomfortable I become with the racism, and the racism is obvious.…

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    15 December 2003 is a very interesting date, John. Mullins tended his resignation that morning immediately following a conversation with…

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