Drew Grant and the Organisasi Papua Merdeka
Firstly I want to dispel any illusions that my heading might have created about Mr Grant being in any way connected to the Organisasi Papua Merdeka. The connection between the…
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June 12, 2011
It’s time for a Royal Commission into the Australian Federal Police
“A State cannot claim to be operating under the rule of law unless laws are administered fairly, rationally, predictably, consistently and impartially.” (Chief Justice Spigelman, as he then was, in…
June 5, 2011
Arc of instability / Australian Defence Force / Australian Federal Police / Commonwealth Ombudsman / Corruption / Pacific Neighbours / Rule of Law
Another nail in the coffin of Australia’s democracy
"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…
June 3, 2011
So who has been a naughty boy, then?
Well, it would appear that Australian lawyer and senior Australian Litigation Advisor to the Attorney-General of Vanuatu Ari Jenshel has been a very naughty boy! So naughty indeed, that he…
May 25, 2011
Accountability / ACT Government / Australian Federal Police / Bill of Rights / Democracy / Rule of Law
Corruption and Racism in the Australian Federal Police and the death of Australia’s democracy
21) After coffee was served Mr and Mrs King [i] and I were discussing Mrs (name removed on legal advice) dog Sooty and all of his aliments when a dark…
May 24, 2011
ASIO’s new power grab: be alert and alarmed!
Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. George Orwell. Why have there been no terrorist…
May 22, 2011
How about some honesty and transparency, please!
Chinese mafia groups have infiltrated and corrupted the highest levels of Papua New Guinea’s police force, crippling the struggling nation’s attempts to tackle its law-and-order crisis and posing a potential…
May 19, 2011
Derision, lies and the death of OUR DEMOCRACY
I lived in Australia for a year and was astounded at the level of casual racism in all walks of Australian life. The term 'wog' is used by many people…
May 15, 2011
Accountability / ACT Government / Australian Federal Police / Corruption / Hypocrisy / Stanhope Government
Stanhope-less is gone, now it’s time for accountability and transparency
Well thank god for that! Like all good rats, the king of spin is the first to abandon the sinking ship of state the Australian Capital Territory. Yes, strictly speaking…
May 10, 2011
Australia the land of the fair go – now that’s bullshit unless you happen to be fair!
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander imprisonment (ATSI) rates have soared by a whopping 52 per cent over the past decade. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander’s now account for a quarter…
May 5, 2011
Accountability / Australian Federal Police / Bill of Rights / Commonwealth Government / Discrimination/Racism / Rule of Law
Ya reckon ya live in a democracy, do ya?
In 1991-1992 the Research School of Social Sciences at ANU conducted a national survey of 1522 Australians and asked them about their attitude to rights. The report Rights in Australia…
May 3, 2011
Accountability / Arc of instability / Australian Federal Police / Indonesia / PNG / Rule of Law / Solomon Islands
Sex, guns, drugs and terrorism
What a combination, but what do they have to do with Blak and Black? To steal a line from Gore Vidal’s Caligula, “everything and nothing”. Nothing, because Blak and Black…
April 30, 2011
The annual yam festival and sex tourism
The Australian Federal Police demonstrate a selective approach to addressing child sex tourism.
April 28, 2011
I will destroy the wisdom of the wise
As a prelude to this post I would like to congratulate former Solomon Islands’ Attorney-General Julian Moti on his win in the High Court. On Friday 8th April 2011 the…
April 18, 2011
Australian Federal Police / Commonwealth Government / Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / Hypocrisy / Rule of Law
A study in racism, hypocrisy and bastardry
Clearly, with the expansion of the AFP under Mick Keelty and with the blessing of the Howard government, the AFP has morphed into something unrecognisable. It's forgotten its core business…
April 11, 2011
The Australian Federal Police spark racial hatred in Australia!
The dismissal of trumped up charges against an Australian woman in 2006 demonstrates the racial bias of the AFP.
April 7, 2011
Racism is killing me, by Jessica Sabogal
Arc of instability / Asia-Pacific / Australian Federal Police / Commonwealth Government / Corporate profit / Corporate responsibility / Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / Equality of opportunity / Government / Human Rights / Hypocrisy / Indonesia / Law Enforcement / Rule of Law / Shared humanity
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
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 act as armed enforcers of the executive, contrary to the concept of operational independence.
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…
April 2, 2011
‘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…
March 24, 2011