Law Enforcement

Gratuitous acts of racism in Australia’s capital, Canberra!

In fact, the worst offender of institutionalised discrimination and marginalisation of Aboriginal people is the government.—Neil Gillespie, head of the Aboriginal Legal Rights Movement Inc, South Australia ('Poor health, racism…

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July 6, 2011

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

Worldwide phenomena: white hate crimes committed against indigenous people

I was contacted over the weekend by a colleague in the United States who pointed out to me the similarities in the nature of the crimes I described in my…

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July 4, 2011

Discrimination/Racism / RAMSI

A call to our Melanesian brothers and sisters

While speaking with Mr Julian Moti QC, the former Attorney-General for the Solomon Islands recently, he pointed out to me that few people in the Pacific know about the current plight…

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June 25, 2011

Australian Federal Police / Corruption / Law Enforcement

The carbon tax, more scope for Australian Federal Police corruption

Julia Gillard, in one of her more outrageous moments, has declared that her carbon tax would be “shyster” proof; to which, the Australian Federal Police Association (AFPA) quickly countered with…

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June 22, 2011

ASIO / Australian Federal Police / First Nations/Indigenous / Government / Law Enforcement / RAMSI / Rule of Law / White Australia

Co-operate or else, AFP thuggery in the pursuit of a white Australia

97 Quite rightly, the accused regarded ASIO and the AFP as arms of the state. He quite rightly assumed that they were acting together. The notion that he would be…

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June 21, 2011

Asia-Pacific / Corruption / Hypocrisy / Indonesia / Law Enforcement / RAMSI / Solomon Islands

The strange case of Bill Johnson, a study in neo-colonial hypocrisy

Australian Vietnam Veteran, Bill Johnson, appeared in a Solomon Islands court on Tuesday 30th January, 2007 charged with conspiracy to murder. His alleged victim was to be none other than…

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June 15, 2011

Arc of instability / Australian Federal Police / Indonesia / Mining / Neo-Colonialism

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

Australian Federal Police / Bill of Rights / Democracy / Refugees / Rule of Law

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…

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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…

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June 3, 2011

Arc of instability / Australian Federal Police / Discrimination/Racism / Rule of Law

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…

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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…

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May 24, 2011

ASIO / Australian Federal Police / Corruption

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…

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May 22, 2011

Australian Federal Police / Commonwealth Government / Corruption / PNG / Rule of Law

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…

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May 19, 2011

Australian Federal Police / Culture / Democracy / White Australia

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…

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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…

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May 10, 2011

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

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…

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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…

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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…

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April 30, 2011

Australian Federal Police / Commonwealth Government / Culture / Hypocrisy / Rule of Law

The annual yam festival and sex tourism

In the Trobriand Islands the annual yam festival is more than just ordinary. Nick burst out laughing when I told him I was heading for the Trobriand Islands. “I hope…

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April 28, 2011

Australian Defence Force / Culture / Discrimination/Racism / Equality of opportunity / Human Rights / Law Enforcement / Respect / Shared humanity

Lest we forget … or ignore

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…

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April 25, 2011

Law Enforcement

Gratuitous acts of racism in Australia’s capital, Canberra!

Worldwide phenomena: white hate crimes committed against indigenous people

A call to our Melanesian brothers and sisters

The carbon tax, more scope for Australian Federal Police corruption

Co-operate or else, AFP thuggery in the pursuit of a white Australia

The strange case of Bill Johnson, a study in neo-colonial hypocrisy

Drew Grant and the Organisasi Papua Merdeka

It’s time for a Royal Commission into the Australian Federal Police

Another nail in the coffin of Australia’s democracy

So who has been a naughty boy, then?

Corruption and Racism in the Australian Federal Police and the death of Australia’s democracy

ASIO’s new power grab: be alert and alarmed!

How about some honesty and transparency, please!

Derision, lies and the death of OUR DEMOCRACY

Stanhope-less is gone, now it’s time for accountability and transparency

Australia the land of the fair go – now that’s bullshit unless you happen to be fair!

Ya reckon ya live in a democracy, do ya?

Sex, guns, drugs and terrorism

The annual yam festival and sex tourism

Lest we forget … or ignore

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