Respect

No amount of education will ever make us white

The following is a letter I received from a reader of Blak and Black and the Fiji Sun, talking about his experiences as a Pakistani/Australian living in Australia’s Capital, Canberra: Dear…

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July 31, 2011

Assimilation / Corporate profit / Corruption / Culture / Democracy / Environment / Equality / First Nations/Indigenous / Government / Human Rights / Hypocrisy / Mining / Respect / Rule of Law / WA government

Native Title: An Australian White Wash

He is wizened. Lines mark a face that has felt the sun’s warming rays and burning beams, eyes see the land that holds his people’s Dreams, ears hear the stories…

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July 17, 2011

Culture / Democracy / Discrimination/Racism / Equality / Human Rights / Respect / Rule of Law

Bruce and Bruce split the house

All in all I have to say that this has been a good week for me on the information gathering circuit. On Monday I came into possession of the Skunky…

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July 14, 2011

Corruption / Culture / Discrimination/Racism / Environment / Globalisation / Human Rights / Hypocrisy / Mining / Respect

It’s time: for honesty and fairness when reporting on Aboriginal Australia

Let’s not put too fine a point on it. Without question, Aboriginal Australia is afflicted with enormous problems, not least of which are law and order and health issues. Add…

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July 9, 2011

Commonwealth Government / Discrimination/Racism / Respect / Rule of Law

Has Australia lied to the UNHRC?

The same sentencing principles are to be applied, of course, in every case, irrespective of the identity of a particular offender or his membership of an ethnic or other group.…

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June 13, 2011

Democracy / Discrimination/Racism / Equality of opportunity / Human Rights / Respect / Rule of Law / Shared humanity

Are we not members of the animal kingdom too?

‘ Will there be sugar after the Rebellion?’ ‘No,’ said Snowball firmly. ‘We have no means of making sugar on this farm. Besides, you do not need sugar. You will…

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June 3, 2011

ACT Government / Australian Federal Police / Discrimination/Racism / Respect / Rule of Law

Australia the land of the fair go – now that’s bullshit unless you happen to be fair!

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander imprisonment (ATSI) rates have soared by a whopping 52 per cent over the past decade. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander’s now account for a quarter…

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May 5, 2011

Discrimination/Racism / Equality of opportunity / Human Rights / Respect

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

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…

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April 25, 2011

Commonwealth Government / Culture / Discrimination/Racism / Respect / United Nations

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…

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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…

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April 10, 2011

Australian Federal Police / Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / Respect / Rule of Law

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…

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April 7, 2011

Assimilation / Culture / Discrimination/Racism / Hypocrisy / Respect

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…

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April 1, 2011

Australian Defence Force / Commonwealth Government / Discrimination/Racism / Hypocrisy / Respect

‘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…

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March 26, 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…

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March 12, 2011

Discrimination/Racism / Equality of opportunity / Human Rights / Respect

Australia, you are racist!

So, you still think Australia doesn’t have a problem with racism? It’s time we took a good look at some evidence to the contrary, the most recent of which can…

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March 4, 2011

Accountability / Discrimination/Racism / Respect / Shared humanity

Who are citizens of ‘Australia’s great democracy?’

First, democracy implies processes of communication through which individuals come to know as individuals what they want or think is right. Individuals should be the owners of their beliefs and…

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February 23, 2011

Accountability / ACT Government / Australian Federal Police / Corporate responsibility / Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / Equality of opportunity / Government / Human Rights / Hypocrisy / Law Enforcement / Respect / Rule of Law / Stanhope Government

The genteel art of bullying

I was recently discussing the genteel art of bullying with a former associate, Paulo Flores, who is a psychologist and mediator and Watershedd, a recent contributor to Blak and Black.…

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January 30, 2011

Archaeology / Corruption / Culture / Human Rights / Hypocrisy / Respect / Shared humanity

Will Australia ever move from Black and White to the Grey that sits between?

I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows, it is as though I have been surrounded by…

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January 19, 2011

Australian Federal Police / Commonwealth Government / Corruption / Respect / Rule of Law

Ambassador Chan speaks about Moti, Sogavare and the Australian Government

The following article written by Ednal Palmer appeared in the Solomon Star on Saturday 15th January, 2011. While the article is ostensibly about the tenure of the outgoing Taiwanese (ROC)…

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January 16, 2011

Respect

No amount of education will ever make us white

Native Title: An Australian White Wash

Bruce and Bruce split the house

It’s time: for honesty and fairness when reporting on Aboriginal Australia

Has Australia lied to the UNHRC?

Are we not members of the animal kingdom too?

Australia the land of the fair go – now that’s bullshit unless you happen to be fair!

Who are you to judge who I am?

Lest we forget … or ignore

Australia as “Last Bastion For The Aryan Race”

Is Native Title worth the paper it’s written on?

The Australian Federal Police spark racial hatred in Australia!

Superfluous People

‘The Australians are basically English rednecks’ – Robin Williams

Our youth, a future of hope?

Australia, you are racist!

Who are citizens of ‘Australia’s great democracy?’

The genteel art of bullying

Will Australia ever move from Black and White to the Grey that sits between?

Ambassador Chan speaks about Moti, Sogavare and the Australian Government

RAMSI - the scion of the juggernaut of greed

AFP accused of fabricating evidence, yet again!

Moti affair

Moti affair

Moti appeal exposes mixed loyalties and judicial corruption

Moti end game

Letters to the editor: Article by Bakchos

Co-operate or else! AFP thuggery for a white Australia

The strange case of Bill Johnson, a study in neo-colonial hypocrisy

Neo-colonialism in the Torres Strait

Moti and other affairs

Comment: Excellent Read