On 16 May 2008, the United Nations Committee against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment issued its Concluding Observations on Australia. They included 27 recommendations concerning…
When I started Blak and Black, on the advice of my good friend the Rev. Pat, my purpose was to bring to the attention of as wide an audience as…
As promised, I’m handing over the commentary on blakandblack.com to some people who have helped me collect statements for my proposed application to the United Nations. Mick 'volunteered' to be…
The following statement was issued by Julian Moti QC in New Delhi, India in August 2006 in response to a media inquiry from Chris Merritt (Legal Affairs Editor of The Australian). At the…
Following are two comments I received today in reference to my most recent article The ALP and AFP corruption. I have included them as a separate article, because they support the…
Class action on police ‘torture’ screams the headline from The Canberra Times on Christmas Eve. The newspaper reports that Mark Barrow, Solicitor from Ken Cush & Associates, a Canberra based…
In my previous post I spoke about to the Théâtre de l'Absurde which is a term coined by Martin Esslin for the work of a number of playwrights, working in…
The Australian Government must now be facing a huge moral dilemma following the tragedy still unfolding on Christmas Island. The dilemma is a simple one: is the Gillard Government going to…
Eliza Hamilton Dunlop was a European migrant of Irish extraction who tried to give Indigenous Australians a ‘voice’ during a time when we were all but silenced. ‘The Aboriginal Mother’…
We live in a morally flawed world, one full of regrets and reapproaches. Some of the things we regret, or for which we are reapproached, we bring about intentionally and…
For the purpose of clarification and at the request of some of my readers, I thought it opportune to discuss the methodology I used in collecting my statements. To ensure…
In a month … Unkind words, Veiled sight; Stories lost Visions no longer seen; Dreams of a way Of a time Of a life Blown away, dust In a land…
Not two years old, you started Not for me, but spite; A black man boxer, strong and proud His spirit sought to break; Not two years old your brutal curse…