Justice

A hypocrite for a Prime Minister, a hypocrite for a Chief Minister

Each man reaches perfection by doing his own duty; he worships god – from whom all beings come, by whom this universe was stretched forth – by doing his appointed…

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November 13, 2012

Corruption / Democracy / Discrimination / Discrimination/Racism / Equality / Human Rights / Hypocrisy / Justice / Law / Propaganda / Refugees / Respect / Rule of Law / Shared humanity

Anna Elisabeth Schmieg and the narrative structures of society

The stereotyping of classes of people sets a dangerous foundation for the discrimination against an Other.

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September 20, 2012

Accountability / Archaeology / Art / Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / Environment / Equality / Human Rights / Hypocrisy / International Law / Justice / Law / Mining / Rule of Law

YINDJIBARNDI ABORIGINAL CORPORATION MEDIA RELEASE

FMG ‘DECLASSIFIED’ THEN DESTROYED YINDJIBARNDI HERITAGE SITES Recent reports that, Fortescue Metals Group (FMG) is pushing ahead with the “low-cost Firetail deposit” at its Solomon Project, while scaling back…

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September 13, 2012

Asia-Pacific / Discrimination / Discrimination/Racism / Equality / Genocide / Human Rights / Justice / Law / Rule of Law / Sexism / Shared humanity / West Papua

Kristallnacht: Why human rights is everyone’s business

Tell me who you are, what you stand for what you mean Tell me what the lines and whirls upon your hand do mean Show me plain the markings of…

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September 9, 2012

Accountability / Asia-Pacific / Australian Federal Police / Corruption / Democracy / Fred Martens / Human Rights / International Law / Justice / Law / Law Enforcement / PNG / Rule of Law

Fred Martens and the AFP – the limits of the rule of law

…that in America THE LAW IS KING. For as in absolute governments the King is law, so in free countries the law ought to be King; and there ought to…

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August 26, 2012

Asia-Pacific / Australian Federal Police / Commonwealth Government / Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / Equality / Fred Martens / Government / Hypocrisy / International Law / Justice / Law / Law Enforcement / PNG / Rule of Law

A lie by any other name does not make a truth, unless you’re the AFP

A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its adversaries but rather by the fact that these adversaries finally die, and a new generation grows up familiar with the…

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August 22, 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?…

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August 16, 2012

Accountability / ACT Government / Australian Federal Police / Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / Equality / Equality of opportunity / Government / Hypocrisy / Justice / Law Enforcement / Rule of Law

The finger puppet of fickle fate

Memory is a funny thing. When I was in the scene I hardly paid any attention. I never stopped to think of it as something that would make a lasting…

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August 3, 2012

Corporate responsibility / Corruption / Culture / Discrimination / Discrimination/Racism / Equality / Equality of opportunity / Genocide / Human Rights / Hypocrisy / Justice / Respect / Rule of Law

Dr Janice Harper: Just Us Justice

Dr. Janice Harper has graciously agreed to her paper being republished on Blak and Black, for which we are most grateful. This is the paper referred to in the post…

28 Comments

July 12, 2012

ACT Government / Discrimination/Racism / Equality / Government / Justice / Law / Racism / Rule of Law

Red the colour of our blood, black the colour of our skin

Jimmy Governor after his arrest – source Singleton Library I killed the school-teacher and Mrs Mawbey. … My missis was always telling me that Mrs Mawbey was always getting on…

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June 21, 2012

The assassination of Mako Tabuni: the AFP is the devil in everyone’s democratic aspirations!

West Papua Rally, Melbourne 2012

Asia-Pacific / Australian Federal Police / Genocide / Human Rights / Indonesia / International Law / Justice / Law Enforcement / Rule of Law / United Nations

The assassination of Mako Tabuni: the AFP is the devil in everyone’s democratic aspirations!

Indonesia's Detachment 88 has killed West Papuan independence activist Mako Tabuni.

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June 15, 2012

Accountability / Australian Federal Police / Corporate profit / Corporate responsibility / Corruption / Equality / Globalisation / Human Rights / Justice / Law / Law Enforcement / Mining / Respect / Rule of Law

70 butchered Congolese: a small price to pay for our blood copper and silver!

It will be a marvellous thing – the true personality of man – when we see it. It will grow naturally and simply, flower-like, or as a tree grows. It…

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May 31, 2012

Accountability / Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / Equality / Equality of opportunity / Human Rights / Hypocrisy / Justice / Law / Respect / Rule of Law / Sexism

National Sorry Day: Meaningless in the face of racism and sexism

The double standards of the AFP in the treatment of Indigenous women versus non-Indigenous underscores persistent racism and sexism in law enforcement.

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May 26, 2012

Asia-Pacific / Culture / Environment / Genocide / Human Rights / Indonesia / Justice / Mining / Neo-Colonialism / Rule of Law / Shared humanity / West Papua

300,000 dead West Papuan’s: a fair price for our golems?

Sydney: city of mystery, city of marvels. Sydney: its foreshores once teeming with Gadigal; now a captive city pregnant with memories, enveloped by memories of a Gadigal Atlantis. The traditional…

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May 24, 2012

Arc of instability / Asia-Pacific / Australian Federal Police / Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / Equality / Human Rights / International Law / Julian Moti / Justice / Law Enforcement / Neo-Colonialism / Pacific Neighbours / Racism / Respect / Rule of Law

AFP racism sparks diplomatic row between Australia and Vanuatu

On 2nd May, 2012 the Vanuatu Daily Post reported that Private Secretary in the Prime Minister’s Office Clarence Marae had been arrested at Sydney International Airport by the Australian Federal…

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May 10, 2012

ACT Government / Australian Federal Police / Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / Equality / Ernst & Young / Former Commissioner / Genocide by stealth / Government / Human Rights / Justice / Law / Law Enforcement / Racism / Rule of Law / Shared humanity

A prayer to the Gods

Attacks and abuse - the price of speaking out against racism and corruption, all ignored by law enforcement and corrupt officials.

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May 2, 2012

Discrimination/Racism / Equality / Genocide by stealth / Human Rights / Justice / Racism / Rule of Law

Kieffen Raggett: A victim of the racist fog blurring Australia’s consciousness

AQUÍ Mis pasos en esta calle Resuenan En otra calle Donde Oigo mis pasos Pasar en esta calle Donde Sólo es real la niebla. Octavio Paz – March 31, 1914…

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April 24, 2012

ACT Government / Australian Federal Police / Commonwealth Government / Equality / Government / Justice / Law / Law Enforcement / Political theory / Rule of Law

Die Sünde ist ein Versinken in das Nichts

Du bist der Arme, du der Mittellose Du bist der Arme, du der Mittellose, du bist der Stein, der keine Stätte hat, du bist der fortgeworfene Leprose, der mit der…

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April 19, 2012

ACT Government / Corporate responsibility / Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / Equality / Equality of opportunity / Ernst & Young / Former Commissioner / Government / Justice / Rule of Law / Stolen Generation

Ernst and Young peddlers of falsity, destroyers of dreams

Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths, Enwrought of golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and the half-light, I would…

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April 14, 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…

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March 28, 2012

Justice

A hypocrite for a Prime Minister, a hypocrite for a Chief Minister

Anna Elisabeth Schmieg and the narrative structures of society

YINDJIBARNDI ABORIGINAL CORPORATION MEDIA RELEASE

Kristallnacht: Why human rights is everyone’s business

Fred Martens and the AFP – the limits of the rule of law

A lie by any other name does not make a truth, unless you’re the AFP

My house shall be called the house of prayer; but you have made it a den of thieves

The finger puppet of fickle fate

Dr Janice Harper: Just Us Justice

Red the colour of our blood, black the colour of our skin

The assassination of Mako Tabuni: the AFP is the devil in everyone’s democratic aspirations!

70 butchered Congolese: a small price to pay for our blood copper and silver!

National Sorry Day: Meaningless in the face of racism and sexism

300,000 dead West Papuan’s: a fair price for our golems?

AFP racism sparks diplomatic row between Australia and Vanuatu

A prayer to the Gods

Kieffen Raggett: A victim of the racist fog blurring Australia’s consciousness

Die Sünde ist ein Versinken in das Nichts

Ernst and Young peddlers of falsity, destroyers of dreams

Mob rule and the ‘gentle’ nations of the West

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