In Praise of Nostos
Portrayal of character in The Odyssey highlights the virtue of the resilient individual who survives and prospers, despite the many who would leech off them.
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October 5, 2011
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Fear and Trembling – Australia’s gutless approach to the genocide in Papua
The following article appeared in Friday’s Jakarta Post: Maj. Gen. Wisnu Bawatenaya has been appointed to become commander of the Indonesian Army Special Forces (Kopassus) replacing Maj. Gen. Lodewijk F…
September 13, 2011
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Beware the tolling bell
Across the world the common factor in regional conflicts is inequality and no-one is immune to the consequences.
September 10, 2011
Sapere Aude
As an escape, a folly if you will, from the miasmas of corruption, injustice and hypocrisy, I have penned the outline for a movie or story about the death of…
September 1, 2011
Art / Bill of Rights / Corporate profit / Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / Environment / Equality / Equality of opportunity / First Nations/Indigenous / Genocide / Human Rights / Neo-Colonialism / Respect / Rule of Law / Shared humanity
YINDJIBARNDI ABORIGINAL CORPORATION and ‘SOLOMON HUB’
A press release from the Yindjibarndi Aboriginal Corporation regarding Fortescue's Solomon Hub mining proposal.
August 9, 2011
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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…
July 31, 2011
Asia-Pacific / Corporate profit / Corporate responsibility / Corruption / Culture / Discrimination/Racism / Human Rights / PNG / Shared humanity
White Australian ‘just-us’ and the indigenous people of the Pacific
“Rio Tinto played an active role in military operations that ultimately led to a civil war in which 15,000 people died. Because of Rio Tinto’s financial influence in Papua New…
June 30, 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…
June 3, 2011
The beginnings of our abuse as a people in the name of white fella’s ‘justice’
The origin of racial discrimination in Australia lies in the prosecution of Mow-watty, about whom several assumptions denied him justice.
May 9, 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…
April 25, 2011
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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…
April 10, 2011
Racism is killing me, by Jessica Sabogal
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Indigeneity: the unifying factor
Justice for Indigenous people not within our own borders, but in the international forum, standing in unity with those suffer similarly.
April 6, 2011
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perjury and perverting the course of justice strike at the heart of the administration of justice
"…each of the offences of perjury and perverting the course of justice strike at the heart of the administration of justice…" The above statement comes from Justice Bruce James's judgment…
March 21, 2011
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…
February 23, 2011
The AFP and Detachment 88
Detachment 88's major facility at the Jakarta Centre for Law Enforcement Co-operation was established in 2004 with almost $40 million of Australian funding. According to its website, most of the…
February 18, 2011
How complicit is the AFP in the torture of West Papuan’s by Detachment 88?
The attached video shows very clearly what I mean by torture of West Papuan by Detachment 88. What this video shows is a clear violation of international law. Detachment 88…
February 17, 2011
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…
January 19, 2011
Australian Aborigines / Discrimination/Racism / First Nations/Indigenous / Genocide / Shared humanity / White Australia
‘The Aboriginal Mother’ a poem by Eliza Hamilton Dunlop
An elegy for a lost child.
December 16, 2010