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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)…

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January 23, 2013
#IdleNoMore – Transnational Indigenous Solidarity
Assimilation / Corporate profit / Corruption / Culture / Discrimination / Discrimination/Racism / Environment / First Nations/Indigenous / Genocide / Genocide by stealth / Human Rights / Law / Mining / Neo-Colonialism / Racism / Reconciliation / Rule of Law

#IdleNoMore – Transnational Indigenous Solidarity

#IdleNoMore is a growing movement of indigenous activism that started with Canada's First Nations taking a stand against a long history of systematic, institutionalized abuse from the Canadian authorities.

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January 22, 2013
Accountability / ACT Government / Australian Aborigines / Australian Federal Police / Bill of Rights / Corruption / Discrimination / Discrimination/Racism / Equality / Ernst & Young / First Nations/Indigenous / Former Commissioner / Government / Human Rights / Justice / Law / Law Enforcement / Racism / Rule of Law / Sexism

Hypocrisy underscoring the ACT’s Bill of Rights

''Quite often before they get there [to court] they have done something quite serious. It becomes quite difficult because the offending behaviour is the first point that you've got to…

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January 13, 2013
Liberty, Equality, Fraternity – but, only if you’re white
Accountability / Australian Aborigines / Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / Equality / First Nations/Indigenous / Government / Human Rights / Justice / Law / Law Enforcement / Northern Territory Intervention / Queensland / Queensland Police / Racism / Respect / Rule of Law / White Australia

Liberty, Equality, Fraternity – but, only if you’re white

Liberté, égalité, fraternité; the national motto of France, indeed the emphasis on Fraternité during the French Revolution led Olympe de Gouges, a contemporary French playwright, political activist and journalist, to…

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January 5, 2013
Accountability / ACT Government / Assimilation / Australian Federal Police / Commonwealth Government / Corruption / Discrimination / Discrimination/Racism / Domestic Law / Equality / Equality of opportunity / First Nations/Indigenous / Government / Human Rights / Hypocrisy / Justice / Law / Law Enforcement / Racism / Respect / Rule of Law / Sexism / United Nations

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
Accountability / Corporate profit / Corporate responsibility / Corruption / Culture / Environment / First Nations/Indigenous / Genocide / Government / Human Rights / Law / Mining / Neo-Colonialism / Rule of Law / WA government / Yindjibarndi

Another Whistleblower Drops FMG Mining Deal Bombshell

Yindjibarndi Aboriginal Corporation—BULLETIN http://yindjibarndi.org.au/ Wednesday 31 October 2012 No amount of corporate spin, bulldust or threats can save Fortescue Metals Group (FMG) from the continuing revelations of whistleblowers and freedom…

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November 1, 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
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…

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July 7, 2012