Rule of Law

Concentric Circles of Death: refugees and a cynical and manipulative Australian polity

In the Twentieth Century of my trespass on earth, having exterminated one billion heathens, heretics, Jews, Moslems, witches, mystical seekers, black men, Asians, and Christian brothers, every one of them…

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June 4, 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 / AHRC/HREOC / ASIO / Australian Federal Police / Corruption / Counter-terrorism laws / Discrimination/Racism / Equality / Human Rights / International Law / Law Enforcement / Mining / Rule of Law / Terrorism

Australia: a parable on authoritative oppression and the nature of conformity

I am not pessimistic. I just see everything as it is. When one lives in a society that is essentially not free, it is the obligation of every thinking person…

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May 30, 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

Last week’s discussion of the Jinn combined with this week’s reading about Heraclitus to reinforce my opinion that the treatment of Ms. King and Lucinda McMillan at the hands of the…

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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

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…

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May 22, 2012

Asia-Pacific / Culture / Discrimination/Racism / Environment / Equality / Equality of opportunity / Genocide / Human Rights / Indonesia / International Law / Law / Mining / Neo-Colonialism / Rule of Law / Shared humanity / West Papua

Beware there be Jinn in the forests: Indonesia and West Papua, a clash of cultures

Last weekend I took a stroll through the Mesopotamia exhibition at the Melbourne Museum. While reading the commentary attached to a number of the artefacts I realised, in a profound…

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May 20, 2012

ACT Government / Asia-Pacific / Australian Federal Police / Discrimination/Racism / Equality / Government / International Law / Law / Law Enforcement / Pacific Neighbours / Racism / Rule of Law

Melanesia and Indigenous Australia: white privilege and the ‘rule of law’

Melanesia and Indigenous Australia: white privilege and the ‘rule of law’ … first, I made him know his Name should be Friday, which was the Day I sav'd his Life;…

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May 14, 2012

ACT Government / AHRC/HREOC / Australian Federal Police / Commonwealth Ombudsman / Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / Equality / Ernst & Young / Former Commissioner / Government / Law Enforcement / Racial Discrimination Act / Rule of Law

Do as I say, don’t do as I do

I’ve debated about the title of this post, torn with an alternative following on from the statement in one's Aboriginal heritage with a title that would allude to John Howard…

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May 12, 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

Accountability / ACT Government / Australian Federal Police / Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / Equality / Ernst & Young / Former Commissioner / Government / Law / Law Enforcement / Racism / Rule of Law

Call me black: Proud to be an Aborigine!

The following verse is to Jean-Michel Basquiat's painting Jack Johnson, 1982 acrylic and oil paintstick on canvas. Jean-Michel Basquiat died at 27 years old from an overdose. He was the…

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May 5, 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

Watershedd is usually the more moderate of the contributors to Blak and Black. On this occasion Watershedd has shed the veil of temperance and speaks with the raw emotion of…

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May 2, 2012

Culture / Discrimination/Racism / Equality / Equality of opportunity / Human Rights / Respect / Rule of Law

Anzac Day: Lest we forget

There is a battle going on in this country, one the majority would rather ignore. It is a battle for equality between anything to marks a person as not conforming…

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April 25, 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

Culture / Democracy / Discrimination/Racism / Education / Equality / Equality of opportunity / Human Rights / Respect / Rule of Law / Tertiary

The Hunger Games, contemporary spin on ancient tale

My mind has been drawn to another of Rilke’s poems – Dreaming: This my labour: crowned by desire to wander the paths of days. Then sturdied, strong, send rootlet streamers…

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April 22, 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

Arc of instability / Asia-Pacific / Australian Federal Police / Corruption / Fred Martens / Human Rights / Law / Law Enforcement / Respect / Rule of Law

Fred Martens a political pawn on the checked board of fate and corruption

"Upon my feeble knee, I beg this boon, with tears, not lightly shed" of my regular readers for my tardiness in posting over the last few weeks. I have been…

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April 13, 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

Accountability / ACT Government / Australian Federal Police / Bill of Rights / Corruption / Culture / Democracy / Discrimination/Racism / Equality / Government / Human Rights / Justice / Law Enforcement / Racism / Rule of Law

Why Australia needs a Royal Commission into the AFP

On August 30 last year Blak and Black lodged a petition on the GoPetition website calling for a Royal Commission into the Australian Federal Police (“AFP”). Blak and Black has…

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March 24, 2012

Rule of Law

Concentric Circles of Death: refugees and a cynical and manipulative Australian polity

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

Australia: a parable on authoritative oppression and the nature of conformity

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

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

“Friends” the new tovarisch in Julia Gillard speak

Beware there be Jinn in the forests: Indonesia and West Papua, a clash of cultures

Melanesia and Indigenous Australia: white privilege and the ‘rule of law’

Do as I say, don’t do as I do

AFP racism sparks diplomatic row between Australia and Vanuatu

Call me black: Proud to be an Aborigine!

A prayer to the Gods

Anzac Day: Lest we forget

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

The Hunger Games, contemporary spin on ancient tale

Die Sünde ist ein Versinken in das Nichts

Ernst and Young peddlers of falsity, destroyers of dreams

Fred Martens a political pawn on the checked board of fate and corruption

Mob rule and the ‘gentle’ nations of the West

Why Australia needs a Royal Commission into the AFP

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

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