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Shared humanity

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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 Humbug in the Emerald City: Trump, the Populist Wizard

    Agree Hakeem!

  2. Bakchos on Appointment Without Accountability: Jon White, the ACT DPP and the Long Shadow of a Political Prosecution

    Hakeem I’ll be posting proof in the next few days to show that Tu Pham orchestrated the entire thing.

  3. Hakeem on Appointment Without Accountability: Jon White, the ACT DPP and the Long Shadow of a Political Prosecution

    Olikoye the entire group is watching how this plays out. A group of white people ganging up on an Indigenous…

  4. Hakeem on Why Pham’s Decisions Matter: Conflict of Interest in the Public Service

    Mel I too would like to know why Tu Pham hasn’t been charged.

  5. Hakeem on Morality Without Religion, Society Without Morality

    God isn’t the problem, it’s the weaponising of religion by politicians that is the problem.

  6. Hakeem on Humbug in the Emerald City: Trump, the Populist Wizard

    Trump is a racist and a war criminal.

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