The ACT Greens in Coalition with Labor
The Greens have won a greater proportion of the seat in the ACT than any other state or territory but do they lack the spine to hold ACT Labor to account?
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September 19, 2024
Inattention and distraction
ACT Labor: Asleep at the wheel for twenty years
Has ACT Labor been proactive as the Territory's leaders for the past twenty years?
September 18, 2024
Corruption
Corruption in the ACT Government
ACT Labor has held government since 2001, with concerns increasing that the lack of integrity and accountability in the ACT Public Service has been fostered by political leaders.
September 16, 2024
Accountability / ACT Government / Australian Aborigines / Australian Labor Party / Bill of Rights / Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / Diversity / First Nations/Indigenous / Former Commissioner / Human Rights / Justice / Racism / Stanhope Government
The Legacy of ACT Labor, 20 years of lazy government
Labor has led government for two decades in the Australian Capital Territory. With the impending election on October 17 many Canberrans should be considering what substantive benefits their leaders have…
September 26, 2020
Accountability / ACT Government / Australian Aborigines / Australian Labor Party / Bill of Rights / Corruption / Discrimination / Discrimination/Racism / First Nations/Indigenous / Former Commissioner / Human Rights / Justice / Racial Discrimination Act / Racism / Stanhope Government / Uncategorized
The ACT Barr Government, ducking the hard calls for another term
Why was Mullins fitted-up for seeking a missing public interest disclosure and why does the Barr Government not ensure transparency?
September 19, 2020
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
Accountability / ACT Government / Australian Federal Police / Australian Labor Party / Commonwealth Government / Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / Former Commissioner / Fred Martens / Government / Human Rights / Julian Moti / Law Enforcement / Rule of Law
The rule of law and the democratic process
“No-one ever argues that governments should have less integrity, that elected officials should not be accountable, or that public servants should behave unethically. Broad statements of the value of integrity,…
December 10, 2012
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
Accountability / Australian Labor Party / Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / Equality / Human Rights / Hypocrisy / International Law / Rule of Law / Shared humanity / United Nations
Sir Gawain, moral accountability and the UN Security Council
Make we mery quyl we may, and mynne upon joye, For the lur may mon lach when-so mon lykes Make we merry while we may, and think about joy, For…
September 27, 2012
Australian Federal Police / Australian Labor Party / Commonwealth Government / Corruption / Fred Martens / Government / Human Rights / Justice / Law / Law Enforcement / Respect / Rule of Law / Shared humanity
My house shall be called the house of prayer; but you have made it a den of thieves
What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you dreamed? And what if, in your dream, you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower?…
August 16, 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
ACT Government / Australian Labor Party / Discrimination/Racism / Equality / Equality of opportunity / Government / Law / Rule of Law
You’re not an Aboriginal Organisation: the ACT Government’s take on NAIDOC week
Canberra's Billabong Aboriginal Development Corporation is the ACT's finalist for the National Landcare awards, Indigenous section. Responding to a question from the ABC’s Rural programme, Billabong’s founder and chairman Jim…
July 4, 2012
ASIO / Australian Federal Police / Australian Labor Party / Commonwealth Government / Corruption / Counter-terrorism laws / Democracy / Government / Human Rights / Law / Law Enforcement / Rule of Law
“Friends” the new tovarisch in Julia Gillard speak
You cannot believe how much you have to deceive a nation in order to govern it Adolf Hitler – Mein Kampf Has anybody else noticed how frequently Prime Minister Julia…
May 22, 2012
Accountability / ACT Government / Australian Federal Police / Australian Labor Party / Corporate profit / Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / Ernst & Young / Former Commissioner / Government / Human Rights / Hypocrisy / International Law / Justice / Law Enforcement / Racism / Respect / Rule of Law
Mob rule and the ‘gentle’ nations of the West
You can talk a mob into anything; its feelings may be – usually are – on the whole generous and right; but it has no foundation for them; you may…
March 28, 2012
Accountability / Asia-Pacific / Australian Federal Police / Australian Labor Party / Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / Human Rights / Hypocrisy / Justice / Law Enforcement / Racism / RAMSI / Rule of Law / West Papua
Vice-regal corruption: Australia and the UNSC
The Samoan Government has announced that Australian Governor-General, Quentin Bryce, will visit the country next week as part of a Pacific tour that also includes Nauru, Kiribati, Tuvalu, the Solomon…
March 21, 2012
Accountability / ACT Government / Australian Federal Police / Australian Labor Party / Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / Ernst & Young / Former Commissioner / Government / Justice / Law Enforcement / Racism / Rule of Law
Theft and racism, the festering sores in Canberra
For some years now I have been considering the concept of complicity. What constitutes complicity, how far does it extend, where does responsibility for wrongdoing cease? You can all blame…
March 7, 2012
Accountability / ACT Government / Asia-Pacific / Australian Federal Police / Australian Labor Party / Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / Fred Martens / Government / Julian Moti / Justice / Law Enforcement / PNG / Racism / Rule of Law
Martens, Moti and the ‘rule of law’ in Australia
Captain Fred Martens, whom I have written extensively about on Blak and Black in the past, was employed as a commercial pilot flying light aircraft within PNG and between PNG…
March 6, 2012
ACT Government / Australian Labor Party / Democracy / Discrimination/Racism / Equality / Globalisation / Government / Human Rights / Law Enforcement / Racism / Respect / Rule of Law / WA Police
Racism in Australia’s criminal justice system
The clock has been turned back on racial progress in America, though scarcely anyone seems to notice. All eyes are fixed on people like Barack Obama and Oprah Winfrey who…
February 16, 2012
Asia-Pacific / Australian Federal Police / Australian Labor Party / Discrimination/Racism / Genocide / Genocide by stealth / Human Rights / Indonesia / Law Enforcement / Pacific Neighbours / PNG / Racism / Rule of Law / Solomon Islands
AFP implicated in West Papuan genocide
The following is a media release from Westpapuamedia.info According to credible local sources in Puncak Jaya, Indonesian troops razed a civilian village while conducting a massive offensive against National Liberation…
December 5, 2011
Assimilation / Australian Labor Party / Corruption / Culture / Democracy / Discrimination/Racism / Equality of opportunity / Genocide by stealth / Government / Government welfare / Human Rights / Hypocrisy / Northern Territory Intervention / Rule of Law / White Australia
Anti-Aboriginal racism in Australia has no bounds – NT Intervention extended by ten years
“Gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and intersex Australians are part of our community we’re not nameless, faceless people who live on the margins of society. We deserve the respect and the…
December 4, 2011