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Human Rights

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
Blood and Songline
Australian Aborigines / First Nations/Indigenous / Genocide

Blood and Songline

The dead want to be counted. Write the count down.

15 Comments
May 13, 2026
One Nation, the Farrer By-Election and the Sickness of Western Democracy
Commonwealth Government / Democracy / Government / Refugee Policy / Respect

One Nation, the Farrer By-Election and the Sickness of Western Democracy

Farrer has become the canary in the electoral mine, highlighting that voters in regional areas have had enough of being ignored.

7 Comments
May 12, 2026
Exercising Justice: A Review of the Transgressions of Notable Legal Practitioners
ACT Government / Bill of Rights / Corruption / Former Commissioner / Government / Human Rights / Justice / Law / Rule of Law

Exercising Justice: A Review of the Transgressions of Notable Legal Practitioners

Justice requires that legal practitioners be held to the same standards as the rest of the community, but not all jurisdictions accept that fact.

12 Comments
May 10, 2026
The Unbreakable Spirit: Bobby Sands, Resistance and Colonial Injustice
Human Rights / Justice / Rule of Law / Shared humanity

The Unbreakable Spirit: Bobby Sands, Resistance and Colonial Injustice

The desire for freedom is common to all people, a matter that will drive resistance against an oppressor.

7 Comments
May 9, 2026
The Candlestick Phone
Australian Aborigines / First Nations/Indigenous / Human Rights / Shared humanity

The Candlestick Phone

The day they came to tell me, I was at my desk ...

42 Comments
May 7, 2026
The Club in Eternity: A Dialogue in Moves
Human Rights / Shared humanity

The Club in Eternity: A Dialogue in Moves

Chess and coffee in eternity. The Universal Consciousness discusses the futures of humanity with Dr Adnan Al-Bursh.

19 Comments
May 5, 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

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

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

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