The Disturbing Truth Behind Amsterdam and the Dangers of Challenging the Narrative
Individuals who challenge the established narratives often find themselves branded.
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November 10, 2024
Police officer at protest
Accountability / ACT Government / Australian Aborigines / Australian Federal Police / Discrimination / Discrimination/Racism / First Nations/Indigenous / Justice / Law / Police / Racism / White Australia
Accountability and Justice: A Call for Integrity in Policing and Politics
ACT Policing and the AFP must investigate accusations against individuals regardless without prejudice.
October 3, 2024
#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/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
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
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
Accountability / Australian Aborigines / Corruption / Culture / Discrimination/Racism / Equality / Equality of opportunity / First Nations/Indigenous / Genocide by stealth / Government / Human Rights / Justice / Law / Law Enforcement / NSW Government / Police / Racism / Rule of Law / White Australia
Magistrate Clisdell and the NSW ‘just-us’ system
It is sillier than the vain futile cawing of a senseless crow to try to talk to others about one’s own deep sorrow! (Wakayama Bakusai (1885-1928) trans. Robert Wood Clack)…
January 23, 2013
Australian Federal Police / Australian Labor Party / Corruption / Counter-terrorism laws / Democracy / Discrimination/Racism / Domestic Law / Former Commissioner / Fred Martens / Julian Moti / Justice / Law / Law Enforcement / Police / Rule of Law
Nemo nisi Nomen
…believing that the ignorance, neglect, or contempt of the rights of man are the sole cause of public calamities and of the corruption of governments, [we] have determined to set…
November 29, 2012
ACT Government / AHRC/HREOC / Assimilation / Australian Federal Police / Australian Labor Party / Commonwealth Government / Culture / Discrimination/Racism / Equality / Government / Government welfare / Human Rights / Law / Law Enforcement / Police / Rule of Law / Sexism
Forty years on, Indigenous women still without rights
It was freezing last night where I slept in my travels, below freezing in fact. In Bangerang country, home of the Yorta Yorta people, Mother Nature may have frozen the…
July 7, 2012
Accountability / AHRC/HREOC / Australian Federal Police / Corruption / Democracy / Discrimination/Racism / Equality / Equality of opportunity / Human Rights / Law / Law Enforcement / Police / Racial Discrimination Act / Racism / Respect / Rule of Law / Sexism
Respect: more than just a word
Last week, I came across this post by Cate via a mutual friend. I asked if Blak and Black could republish it, to share it with a more diverse audience…
June 9, 2012
Accountability / Australian Federal Police / Corporate responsibility / Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / Ernst & Young / Former Commissioner / Law Enforcement / Police / Racism
Ernst & Young, threats & intimidation
Yet another explanation needed by Ernst & Young ... In the words of a renowned Australian xenophobe, please explain, Ernst & Young. First, you employ an Indigenous Australian man (aka…
April 29, 2012
Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / Education / Equality of opportunity / Genocide / Human Rights / Hypocrisy / Law Enforcement / Police / Respect / Tertiary
Anti-Aboriginal racism rife in the Australian Community
The National Tertiary Education Union ("NTEU") has released the findings from the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander member survey ‘I’m Not Racist But … Report on Cultural Respect, Racial Discrimination,…
November 30, 2011
ACT Government / Australian Federal Police / Commonwealth Government / Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / Equality of opportunity / Government / Law Enforcement / Police / Propaganda
Canberra Corrupt: The self styled Creative Canberran
Dear Creative_Canberran, Please forgive my tardiness in responding to your racist, defamatory and provocative insights into my research and writing abilities. No, your infantile rant on RiotAct has not escaped…
November 13, 2011
ACT Government / Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / First Nations/Indigenous / Genocide / Government / Human Rights / Hypocrisy / Justice / Law / Police / Racism / Respect / Rule of Law
Aborigines and the Australian Justice System
For very many Aboriginal Australians the phrase 'Australian justice system' is an oxymoron. There are any number of reasons, many of which are justified, why we as Aboriginal Australians think…
November 1, 2011
Discrimination/Racism / Environment / Equality of opportunity / Genocide / Human Rights / Justice / Law / Law Enforcement / Police / Rule of Law
Systemic and Institutional Racism and Systemic Bias in the Australian justice system
While discussing the competing merits of Australia’s subtle forms of genocide it employs against its indigenous people versus Indonesia’s more direct and brutal methods it employs in West Papua with…
October 17, 2011
Accountability / ACT Government / Australian Federal Police / Australian Labor Party / Corruption / Culture / Discrimination / Discrimination/Racism / Government / Human Rights / Hypocrisy / Justice / Law / Law Enforcement / Police / Racism / Rule of Law / Stanhope Government
What Civil Liberties Australia has to say about corruption in the AFP
Pius wrote in ALP corruption, a suicide in the AFP and death threats made against a three year old – Human Rights Australian style about the actions of certain Australian…
October 16, 2011
Accountability / ACT Government / Asia-Pacific / Australian Federal Police / Australian Labor Party / Commonwealth Ombudsman / Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / Government / Human Rights / Justice / Law / Law Enforcement / PNG / Police / Racism / Rule of Law
ALP corruption, a suicide in the AFP and death threats made against a three year old – Human Rights Australian style
The following post has been written by a colleague of mine from Papua New Guinea (PNG). I first met Pius in 1996 when I was working for the Papua New…
October 15, 2011