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Human Rights

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
The Dream Dreaming Us
Human Rights / Shared humanity

The Dream Dreaming Us

Realisation of the full breadth of the what this land is and what it offers requires that we accept both the bright of the Dream and that which lies in the shadows.

8 Comments
May 4, 2026
Words Without Witness: Commitment to a Safe Space for Indigenous People in the ACT
First Nations/Indigenous / Human Rights / Justice

Words Without Witness: Commitment to a Safe Space for Indigenous People in the ACT

Questioning Genuine Commitment by the ACT Government and the Australian Federal Police to Ensure the ACT is a Safe Space for Indigenous People to Live and Work.

11 Comments
May 1, 2026
Creatures of Stardust: On Breaking Down Barriers and the Odyssey of Discovery
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Culture / Human Rights / Shared humanity

Creatures of Stardust: On Breaking Down Barriers and the Odyssey of Discovery

By having the courge to share adventures with others, we open ourselves to a better understanding that differences between us are not so big afterall.

7 Comments
April 29, 2026
Riquet with the Quiff:A Fairy Tale for Australia’s Unfinished Multicultural Masterpiece
Discrimination / Discrimination/Racism / Racism / Refugee Policy / Respect / Shared humanity / Uncategorized

Riquet with the Quiff:A Fairy Tale for Australia’s Unfinished Multicultural Masterpiece

We are the princess. Reject Hanson’s othering. Love our unfinished multicultural nation enough to transform. Wish it so.

9 Comments
April 26, 2026
The Arithmetic of Grief
Human Rights / Shared humanity

The Arithmetic of Grief

An Anti-War Statement in Twenty Stanzas.

10 Comments
April 25, 2026
The Strings We Cannot See
Human Rights / Religion / Shared humanity

The Strings We Cannot See

We drift through our days like lanterns set afloat ...

9 Comments
April 21, 2026
We Are Australian: The Timeless Hymn to Plurality
Human Rights / Shared humanity

We Are Australian: The Timeless Hymn to Plurality

Woodley and Newton's "we Are One" embodies the elements of Australia in a profound and unique way.

12 Comments
April 17, 2026
Colonialism, Technology and the Evolution of Neo-colonialism
Government / Human Rights

Colonialism, Technology and the Evolution of Neo-colonialism

Decolonisation is an incomplete project, one that is persistently challenged by the technological advances that replace old commodities.

12 Comments
April 13, 2026
Beyond What We Are: A Hard-Nosed Humanist’s Case for Human Possibility
Human Rights / Religion / Shared humanity / Uncategorized

Beyond What We Are: A Hard-Nosed Humanist’s Case for Human Possibility

Millennia has brought us to this point in time and has shown us that what we are to become is very much up to ourselves.

7 Comments
April 11, 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. Bakchos on Are You Sleeping?

    Ziv do you truly believe that G-d would sanction the genocide of the Palestinian people. The G-d I believe in…

  2. Bakchos on Are You Sleeping?

    Margaret the blog hasn’t got the capacity to publish your post in the script you wrote it in (Ancient Greek)…

  3. The Faceless Freedom Fighter on Marina and ACT Treasury: Documents from 2002 to 2005

    This is racism, unadulterated racism, it has to be addressed.

  4. Lady Margaret on Are You Sleeping?

    But no one, either of the deathless gods or of mortal men, heard her voice, nor yet the olive-trees bearing…

  5. Lady Margaret on Tu Pham’s Prestidigitation, Self-Interest and Racism

    I don’t understand how someone with Tu Pham’s obvious lack of morals managed to get promoted so far?

  6. Lady Margaret on Tu Pham and the Question She Could Not Answer

    I’ve spoken with Mark many times about these issues and the racially motivated, fraudulent prosecution of him in 2017. The…

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