Australian Defence Force / Commonwealth Government / Genocide / Government / Human Rights / Respect / Shared humanity
Suppose they gave a war
A thought to peace lovers everywhere
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September 20, 2024
War is not the answer
ACT Government / Australian Aborigines / Australian Federal Police / Discrimination / Discrimination/Racism / Equality / First Nations/Indigenous / Human Rights / Justice / Law / Racism / Uncategorized
Australian Capital Territory Indigenous Incarceration Rates
Indigenous incarceration rates are among the absolute worst in the world.
September 12, 2024
Australian Captial Territory Sovereign
Accountability / ACT Government / Australian Aborigines / Australian Federal Police / Ernst & Young / First Nations/Indigenous / Justice / Racism / Rule of Law
Peter Garrison, Angel Marina and sovereignty in the ACT
The actions of Peter Garrison, the ACT’s Clayton’s Solicitor-General, has created in Angel Marina a kind of king not answerable to the law for his actions.
July 3, 2024
Accountability / ACT Government / Australian Federal Police / Corruption / Discrimination / Discrimination/Racism / Ernst & Young / First Nations/Indigenous / Former Commissioner / Government / Justice / Law Enforcement / Racism / Rule of Law / Uncategorized
20 Years of friends in the Australian Federal Police
Some days demand that we pause to reflect on an event on the same date in the past. For Blak and Black that day is 9 May and this year marks 20 years since Angel Marina wrote his now widely recognised letter of racism against the ACT Government’s then most senior Indigenous employee.
May 9, 2022
Image: AP/Silvia Izquierdo
ACT Government / Australian Aborigines / Australian Federal Police / Discrimination/Racism / First Nations/Indigenous / Government / Human Rights / Racism / Sexism
Feminist disparity, Blak white and Swedish
Only when we march for every woman and girl will there truly be solidarity.
March 15, 2021
Accountability / ACT Government / Australian Aborigines / Australian Federal Police / Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / Ernst & Young / First Nations/Indigenous / Government / Justice / Law / Law Enforcement / Racial Discrimination Act / Racism / Uncategorized
#Justice4Mullins , a black life that matters
In the wake of unsuccessful prosecution of Mullins, the ACT Government and ACT Policing need to fully investigate the issues raised in his case.
July 31, 2020
#BLM Protest Melbourne 6 June, 2020 - Black Power
Accountability / Australian Aborigines / Discrimination/Racism / Equality / First Nations/Indigenous / Justice / Police / Racism / Shared humanity / Uncategorized
Australia, waking to #BlackLivesMatter
We have questions to answer, Australia. Questions about who we are as a people, what behaviour we expect and accept from our leaders and how we address the abuse of…
June 7, 2020
Australian Aborigines / Discrimination / Equality / First Nations/Indigenous / Human Rights / Justice / Law / Law Enforcement / Racism / Rule of Law / Shared humanity / South Australia
Derek Bromley and the State of Injustice in South Australia
It's well past time to release Derek Bromley.
February 3, 2019
Accountability / ACT Government / Australian Aborigines / Australian Federal Police / Corporate responsibility / Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / First Nations/Indigenous / Government / Justice / Law Enforcement / Racism / Rule of Law / Stolen Generation
Is Integrity Dead in the ACT?
“You want me to respect the law? Then make the law respectable.” Violet Miller, Suffragette, 2015. Over the past two years Mr Mullins has walked his long dark night of…
July 12, 2017
A Time to Remember
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,…
April 25, 2014
Australian Aborigines / Discrimination/Racism / First Nations/Indigenous / Human Rights / Law Enforcement / Police / Racism / Respect / White Australia
Start as you mean to continue
Sunshine in Melbourne’s west has seen all manner of refugees in the past half century. The current mix includes a significant proportion of men, women and children from African nations.…
June 5, 2013
Accountability / Australian Aborigines / Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / First Nations/Indigenous / Genocide by stealth / Human Rights / Law Enforcement / NSW Police / Racism / Respect / Shared humanity
The Bugmy family, Dada and a Quiche in the face
“Dada is a virgin microbe / Dada is against life so dear / Dada / Corporation exploiting ideas / Dada has 391 different attitudes and colours, depending on the President’s…
May 21, 2013
Australian Aborigines / Commonwealth Government / Democracy / Discrimination/Racism / First Nations/Indigenous / Government / Law Enforcement / Neo-Colonialism / Racial Discrimination Act / Racism / Rule of Law / White Australia / Xenophobia
#Racism: Time to cease emulating the ostrich
"He was a remarkably effective prime minister for a while. The most difficult time was in 1997 and, to give credit to the government, they tightened the supervision over the…
April 21, 2013
ACT Government / Australian Aborigines / Australian Federal Police / Bill of Rights / Commonwealth Government / Discrimination/Racism / First Nations/Indigenous / Former Commissioner / Government / Human Rights / Law Enforcement / Police / Racial Discrimination Act / Racism
A fish rots from the head
The most recent public airing of a racist attack on a Korean man and his aunt visiting from his homeland has prompted another round of self-reflection on the Australian psyche.…
April 9, 2013
Asia-Pacific / Australian Federal Police / Commonwealth Government / Culture / Discrimination/Racism / First Nations/Indigenous / Genocide / Government / Human Rights / Indonesia / International Law / Law Enforcement / Racism / Rule of Law / Shared humanity / United Nations / West Papua
West Papua – time we were #idlenomore
“We recognize international law …” Every country that is a member of the United Nations recognizes international law, Bob, at least as far as it serves their purposes. It seems…
March 6, 2013
ACT Government / Australian Aborigines / Australian Federal Police / Commonwealth Government / Discrimination / Discrimination/Racism / Domestic Law / First Nations/Indigenous / Government / Human Rights / Law Enforcement / Northern Territory Intervention / Racism / Rule of Law
“May it ring for justice and change”
I like to learn how to say people’s names properly. Not that I have a particularly good memory for pairing names with faces, but I believe it is a sign…
February 17, 2013
Australian Aborigines / Australian Federal Police / Discrimination/Racism / First Nations/Indigenous / Human Rights / Law Enforcement / Racial Discrimination Act / Racism / Respect / Stolen Generation
Cradle to grave #racism – it’s not just Sydney
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you…
February 9, 2013
Australian Federal Police / Australian Labor Party / Commonwealth Government / Government / Human Rights / Law Enforcement / Rule of Law / Terrorism
Pourquoi les coiffeurs or Wingnut v The Ranger
We all want to live by each other’s happiness, not by each other’s misery. We don’t want to hate and despise one another. In this world there is room for…
February 1, 2013
Asia-Pacific / Australian Federal Police / Commonwealth Government / Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / Domestic Law / Fred Martens / Government / Justice / Law / Law Enforcement / PNG / Racism / Rule of Law / Sexism
Statistics, lies and the #AFP
Thus Friend comforted me. I took great comfort from his counsel, and it seemed to me, indeed that he knew at least more than Reason did. But before he had…
January 30, 2013
Accountability / Australian Aborigines / Corruption / Discrimination / Discrimination/Racism / Domestic Law / First Nations/Indigenous / Genocide / Government / Human Rights / Hypocrisy / Justice / Law / Law Enforcement / NSW Government / NSW Police / Police / Racism / Rule of Law
Magistrate Clisdell v Reality
I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves -- this critical basis I call the ideal of a pigsty. The ideals that have lighted my way,…
January 24, 2013