Australian Federal Police

Indigeneity: the unifying factor

A cause doesn’t drive itself. It requires dedication, research and interrogation of facts to sift out the fiction, to find buried lies. That’s what I do. I search and question…

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April 6, 2011

Accountability / Arc of instability / Australian Federal Police / Culture / Indonesia / RAMSI / Rule of Law

Australia tramples on indigenous peoples rights in the ‘arc of instability’

The Australian Federal Police (AFP), established in 1979, enforces Commonwealth criminal law and protects Australia's interests at a national and international level. The AFP also contracts out a general policing…

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April 4, 2011

ACT Government / Afghanistan / Australian Federal Police / Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / Government / Law Enforcement / RAMSI / Rule of Law

Australia: The façade of democracy!

Australia is a signatory to two important international anti-corruption conventions: the United Nations Convention against Corruption (entered into force 14 December 2005) and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development…

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April 2, 2011

Australian Federal Police / Commonwealth Government / Discrimination/Racism / RAMSI / Rule of Law

‘Thou shall not fall into the chasm of disobeying the rule of law’

Mr Aripaea Salmon is the father of the girl at the centre of the Julian Moti sex tourism allegations, which were reignited by the Australian Federal Police nearly a decade…

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March 24, 2011

Afghanistan / Australian Federal Police / Corruption / Pacific Neighbours / RAMSI / Rule of Law

The AFP and Australian Neo-Colonial Commercial Exploitation in Timor and the Pacific

AFP deploys to East Timor, AFP media release, Sunday, 28 May 2006 “The Australian Federal Police (AFP) can confirm a 45-member team will be deployed to East Timor tomorrow in…

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March 22, 2011

Accountability / ACT Government / Australian Federal Police / Commonwealth Government / Commonwealth Ombudsman / Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / Shared humanity

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…

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March 21, 2011

Accountability / ACT Government / Australian Federal Police / Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / Rule of Law

“Politics is the art of the possible.” —Machiavelli

“All Things Obey Money.” This may be true, but if it is, it is because fools obey money. Just because it’s the first thing that comes to mind does not…

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March 18, 2011

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

Corruption and racism in Australia, our eyes wide shut!

A friend from Melbourne, who has been the victim of ‘anti-wog’ racism since migrating to Australia as a child with his family, often quips that, “Sometimes you have a lucky…

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March 15, 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

ACT Government / Australian Federal Police / Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / Rule of Law / Stanhope Government

“idiots…drunks…and people with nowhere else to go…”

“Well, invaded by idiots, perhaps, Mr Humphries, and that would not surprise me at all. Being invaded by drunks would not surprise me either. Being invaded by people with nowhere…

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March 9, 2011

Accountability / Australian Federal Police / Commonwealth Government / Corruption / Culture / Hypocrisy / NSW Police / Rule of Law / Uncategorized

Mr Commissioner Hypocrisy doesn’t equal integrity

As part of the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Additional estimates for 2006–2007, held in February 2007, Senator Evans put the following question on notice to…

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March 8, 2011

ACT Government / Australian Federal Police / Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / Hypocrisy / Rule of Law / Stanhope Government

Equality and the law

“You don’t have to worry about your little boong mate Marky suing you for fitting him up. When I’m finished with him he’ll be in the gutter where he belongs…

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March 2, 2011

Accountability / ACT Government / Australian Federal Police / Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / Hypocrisy / Rule of Law

“You can only have as much justice as you can afford”

What do Darren Bloomfield, Isobel Coe, Angelique, the former Commissioner for ACT Revenue, Uncle Billy, Ms King, ‘Spooky eyes’ ‘Bird’ Pat, ‘Lizard’ John Johnson, Albert Mason, Richard Hansen, Trevor Beal…

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March 1, 2011

Australian Federal Police / Hypocrisy / Rule of Law / Shared humanity

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…

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February 18, 2011

Australian Federal Police / Hypocrisy / Rule of Law / Shared humanity

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…

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February 17, 2011

Australian Federal Police / Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / Equality of opportunity / Hypocrisy / Law Enforcement / Rule of Law

We’re not racist, we’re Australian!

Australia Day 2011, a mere 223 years after the English invasion and occupation of Aboriginal Australia, an invasion in which white ‘Christian’ males brought with them all of the then,…

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February 5, 2011

Accountability / Australian Federal Police / Corruption / Rule of Law

The AFP and the rule of law

The AFP in its submission to: THE SENATE STANDING COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS, DEFENCE AND TRADE INQUIRY INTO AUSTRALIA'S INVOLVEMENT IN PEACEKEEPING OPERATIONS, March 2007 made the following statement: The…

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January 31, 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

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

Australian Federal Police / Corruption / Culture / Hypocrisy / Rule of Law

A blast in a bin; corruption holds sway

While strolling along the foreshore of Botany Bay today I spotted a Kingfisher. In Classical Greek mythology "Halcyon" is associated with the Kingfisher. There was an ancient belief that the…

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January 14, 2011

Australian Federal Police

Indigeneity: the unifying factor

Australia tramples on indigenous peoples rights in the ‘arc of instability’

Australia: The façade of democracy!

‘Thou shall not fall into the chasm of disobeying the rule of law’

The AFP and Australian Neo-Colonial Commercial Exploitation in Timor and the Pacific

perjury and perverting the course of justice strike at the heart of the administration of justice

“Politics is the art of the possible.” —Machiavelli

Corruption and racism in Australia, our eyes wide shut!

Our youth, a future of hope?

“idiots…drunks…and people with nowhere else to go…”

Mr Commissioner Hypocrisy doesn’t equal integrity

Equality and the law

“You can only have as much justice as you can afford”

The AFP and Detachment 88

How complicit is the AFP in the torture of West Papuan’s by Detachment 88?

We’re not racist, we’re Australian!

The AFP and the rule of law

The genteel art of bullying

Ambassador Chan speaks about Moti, Sogavare and the Australian Government

A blast in a bin; corruption holds sway

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