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Human Rights

Ben Roberts-Smith: Impunity, Accountability and the Law
Accountability / Afghanistan / Australian Defence Force / Human Rights / Justice / Law / Law Enforcement / Rule of Law

Ben Roberts-Smith: Impunity, Accountability and the Law

Charges brought against Australia's most highly decorated living soldier prove that the rule of law is functioning appropriately, even if somewhat late.

8 Comments
April 8, 2026
Law, Image And Ceremony: Aboriginal Art and Systems of Knowledge
Art / Australian Aborigines / Culture / First Nations/Indigenous

Law, Image And Ceremony: Aboriginal Art and Systems of Knowledge

Yolngu painting is more than art. It is a living expression of ancestors, land and community, one with the Dreaming.

7 Comments
April 7, 2026
One Body, Four Confessions: The Arabian Nights and Social Cohesion
Culture / Human Rights / Shared humanity

One Body, Four Confessions: The Arabian Nights and Social Cohesion

It is the unexpected events that criss-cross our days that draw a multicultural society together, more than ethnicity or faith.

8 Comments
April 4, 2026
Are You Sleeping?
Art / Human Rights / Modern art

Are You Sleeping?

A Round on the Ownership of the World(after Frère Jacques)"How can a god give what a god does not have?– and what has god ever possessed, that was not first…

109 Comments
April 1, 2026
Medical misogyny, bullying and professionalism: When regulation fails
Human Rights / Shared humanity / Uncategorized

Medical misogyny, bullying and professionalism: When regulation fails

Protectionism in health care is the blight that lends credence to medical conspiracy theorists.

7 Comments
March 30, 2026
Spirit of the Age: Australia, Islam, and Honest Reckoning
Culture / Government / Racism

Spirit of the Age: Australia, Islam, and Honest Reckoning

Australia's future lies with those who are working constructively to build a more mature multicultural society.

13 Comments
March 27, 2026
The Machine That Never Stops: War, Capital and the Unending Carnage of Modern Conflict
Corporate profit / Human Rights / Shared humanity

The Machine That Never Stops: War, Capital and the Unending Carnage of Modern Conflict

Rather than an ideological difference of opinion, war is machine, an indictment of man's lack of insight and humanity.

6 Comments
March 26, 2026
Witness: Alice Seeley Harris and the Camera as Conscience
Human Rights

Witness: Alice Seeley Harris and the Camera as Conscience

A post on photography, empire, and moral Witness

10 Comments
March 25, 2026
The Unravelling Sky: War, Power, and the Expendable Millions
Human Rights / Shared humanity

The Unravelling Sky: War, Power, and the Expendable Millions

Old men at the end of their lives send young people at the beginning of theirs to fight and die for something they have no say in .

8 Comments
March 24, 2026
My Pipe Dream for Humanity
Human Rights / Shared humanity

My Pipe Dream for Humanity

Before the first word was spoken, before the first hand pressed ochre into stone, we were iron and carbon ...

12 Comments
March 23, 2026
Sparks in the Abyss – Humanity, Honour, and Hope in the Great War
Human Rights / Shared humanity

Sparks in the Abyss – Humanity, Honour, and Hope in the Great War

Accounts from the First World War demonstrate that even in the hells of the trenches humanity was not completely lost.

7 Comments
March 23, 2026
Iran’s Enduring Splendour: Refuting the Myth of Persian Barbarism
Culture / Human Rights / Uncategorized

Iran’s Enduring Splendour: Refuting the Myth of Persian Barbarism

Iranian culture across the arts transcends the myth of Persien barbarism.

15 Comments
March 21, 2026
The Christchurch Mosque Attacks
Human Rights / Shared humanity / Uncategorized

The Christchurch Mosque Attacks

Having faced on the worst terrorist events in recent times, Aotearoa has become an example for the world of inclusion after horror.

14 Comments
March 17, 2026
Wasted Youth: Remarque, Heroism and the Enduring Folly of War
Human Rights / Shared humanity

Wasted Youth: Remarque, Heroism and the Enduring Folly of War

Erich Maria Remarque's seminal novel All Quiet on the Western Front is an indictment of the heroism expounded by old men who never see the field of battle.

11 Comments
March 16, 2026
The Parsley Massacre and the Politics of Exclusion: Haiti and America
Discrimination / Discrimination/Racism / Genocide / Racism / Shared humanity

The Parsley Massacre and the Politics of Exclusion: Haiti and America

The exclusionary politics that devastated the Haitian people are being played out almost a century later in the United States.

11 Comments
March 15, 2026
Power, Fate and False Necessity: Society from Sophocles to Marx
Discrimination/Racism / Equality of opportunity / Shared humanity

Power, Fate and False Necessity: Society from Sophocles to Marx

Comprehension of the social and ideological foundations accepted by society are precursors to structural change.

10 Comments
March 14, 2026
Plural by Design: Multiculturalism, Faith and Australia’s Soul
Human Rights / Shared humanity

Plural by Design: Multiculturalism, Faith and Australia’s Soul

Commitment to the concept of Australians as coming from a multitude of backgrounds will address social cohesion far better than Christian revisionism.

9 Comments
March 13, 2026
The Struggle for Palestinian Human Rights in an Era of Eroding International Justice
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The Struggle for Palestinian Human Rights in an Era of Eroding International Justice

The imposition of sanctions on Palestine is inconsistent with those faced by other states, disrupting international norms crucial to upholding international human rights.

15 Comments
March 11, 2026
Bush Telegraph
Culture / Human Rights / Shared humanity

Bush Telegraph

Once a Jolly Swagman, wandering tracks ‘tween treesHitching rides by saddle-side or riding in a drayShared his stories, brought his tales and perhaps his billy tooBut most import was given…

16 Comments
March 5, 2026
The Spinning Prize Wheel of Fate
Human Rights / Shared humanity

The Spinning Prize Wheel of Fate

Step closer and watch the great Wheel turn, a burnished disc like Achilles’ Shield, etched with destinies you never chose. Hear it hum with the weight of unseen hands, those…

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March 1, 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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