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Shared humanity

Flags and Fury – When Ideals Fail to Align
Government / Shared humanity

Flags and Fury – When Ideals Fail to Align

The twenty-fifth anniversary of the attacks on the United States of America, recalled most vividly by the destruction of the Twin Towers, has stoked a wave of patriotism and reflection…

5 Comments
September 13, 2026
Native Title, Freehold and the Backyard Never at Risk
Australian Aborigines / Domestic Law / First Nations/Indigenous / Racism / Shared humanity

Native Title, Freehold and the Backyard Never at Risk

Freehold has never been at risk from Native Title in Australia, and arguments to the contrary by One Nation demonstrate the manipulation of community sentiment.

4 Comments
September 7, 2026
Clay Remembers: Ancient Voices, a Child’s Question and Empathy
Human Rights / Shared humanity / Uncategorized

Clay Remembers: Ancient Voices, a Child’s Question and Empathy

Across millennia, continents and technologies, one thing is certain - humankind faces the same concerns, regardless of era.

5 Comments
September 2, 2026
Unfinished Reckoning: Auschwitz and the Fires Still Burning
Discrimination/Racism / Human Rights / Racism / Shared humanity

Unfinished Reckoning: Auschwitz and the Fires Still Burning

The legacy of Auschwitz remains the same as at the day of liberation - to remember how the horrors of Holocaust were allowed to happen.

4 Comments
August 16, 2026
One Moon, One God: On the Senselessness of Religious Supremacy in Australia
Discrimination/Racism / Religion / Shared humanity

One Moon, One God: On the Senselessness of Religious Supremacy in Australia

Monotheism, regardless of religion, must accept that name of God may vary between religions, but the entity remains the one God.

6 Comments
August 8, 2026
Babylon Again: The West’s Enduring Need for an Eastern Enemy
Accountability / Corruption / Propaganda / Religion / Shared humanity

Babylon Again: The West’s Enduring Need for an Eastern Enemy

Repeating the patterns of millennia, The war in Iran is yet another instance of the West challenging the East, using the farce of divine rhetoric.

4 Comments
August 1, 2026
The Long Way Home: The Odyssey as a Metaphor for Life
Human Rights / Justice / Respect / Shared humanity

The Long Way Home: The Odyssey as a Metaphor for Life

Most of what appears on this site concerns itself with the present tense of injustice – the ACT, the AFP, the slow grinding machinery of institutions that would rather forget…

7 Comments
July 20, 2026
The Architect Who Dismantled: F.W. de Klerk and the Politics of Letting Go
Discrimination / Human Rights / Law / Racism / Shared humanity

The Architect Who Dismantled: F.W. de Klerk and the Politics of Letting Go

Whether genuinely seeking peace or simply a pragmatic politician who saw the inevitable, FW de Klerk was instrumental in dismantling apartheid

4 Comments
July 19, 2026
Nelson Mandela: The Long Walk to Freedom and Reconciliation
Discrimination / Human Rights / Racism / Shared humanity

Nelson Mandela: The Long Walk to Freedom and Reconciliation

On Nelson Mandela International Day, we reflect on the life and legacy of one of modern history's greatest humanists.

5 Comments
July 18, 2026
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 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
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
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
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
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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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    It’s clear as day to me. This matter is about a group of white people who wanted to rid themselves…

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    Those letters from Miss Angel Marina are very disturbing. The intolerance of white people to black people hasn’t changed in…

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    Polina white people have been doing that to black people for centuries.

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    I’m watching how this matter progresses, the more I read about what it’s gone on here the more disgusted I…

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    I don’t understand how the ACT government could not have disciplined, and in my experience, terminated the employment of Angel…

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