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Accountability in Leadership: A Call for Transparency from Attorney General Shane Rattenbury
Shane Rattenbury, ACT Greens
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Accountability in Leadership: A Call for Transparency from Attorney General Shane Rattenbury

The integrity of our legal system and the trust of the public are at stake. Mr. Rattenbury to respond to the issues raised and demonstrate the leadership that the people of the ACT deserve.

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September 30, 2024
Australian Aborigines / Discrimination/Racism / Domestic Law / Equality / Equality of opportunity / First Nations/Indigenous / Genocide by stealth / Human Rights / Justice / Law / Racism / Respect / Rule of Law / Shared humanity

R. v. Ipeelee: Aboriginal sentencing and overrepresentation in the prison population

On Friday, The Australian Institute of Criminology (“AIC”) realest its Australian crime: Facts & figures: 2012 report, which provides sober reading for all those concerned about the on-going silent genocide…

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May 26, 2013
Australian Aborigines / Discrimination / Discrimination/Racism / Education / Equality of opportunity / First Nations/Indigenous / Genocide / Human Rights / Justice / Law / Primary/Secondary / Racism / Respect / Rule of Law / Shared humanity

The blind juggler: Aboriginal offending and sentencing

Jim Jim where is our party? where all members’re held equal an’vow t’infiltrate that thought among the people it hopes t’serve an’sets a respected road for all those like me.…

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May 24, 2013
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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
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#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
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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
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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