Equal treatment under the law requires that no-one be exempt from the accountability, including those serving in the Israeli military.
Charges brought against Australia's most highly decorated living soldier prove that the rule of law is functioning appropriately, even if somewhat late.
A thought to peace lovers everywhere
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:? A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant,…
The colonist Javanese attacks on West Papuans mimics the same abuses of British and Dutch colonists of the past.
When we look at a map of the world’s major trouble spots we see or at least I see, a white footprint superimposed over each and every one of these…
Ernst & Young's role in breaching the confidentiality of a former Indigenous employee at the behest of ACT Treasury must be scrutinised.
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…
Callahan and colleagues (2002)[i] suggested that organizations must focus on three trust-building tactics – accountability, reliance, and aspiration – to cultivate helpful internal whistleblowing procedures. These principles provide people and…
I’m writing this post in response to some comments that have been left on Blak and Black over the last week or so. The comments are interesting from a number…
In the 1960s Donald Horne observed, "Australia is a lucky country, run by second-rate people who share its luck." This observation was followed in the 1990s by Paul Keating when…
"The pattern from the 1980s right through to Haneef is a culture of obsessive secrecy... where the AFP's major objective has been to look good whilst at the same time…
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…
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…