Native Title, Freehold and the Backyard Never at Risk
Freehold has never been at risk from Native Title in Australia, and arguments to the contrary by One Nation demonstrate the manipulation of community sentiment.
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September 7, 2026
Institutional Unity in the Shielding of Angel Marina
Multiple agencies have acted as a single entity to protect Angel Marina from being held to account for racism.
August 27, 2026
Australian Values: Politics, Immigrants and Pauline Hanson
In the matter of the nation, there are immigrants who embody our values and there is Hanson who divides.
August 24, 2026
ACT Government / Australian Aborigines / Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / Ernst & Young / First Nations/Indigenous / Former Commissioner
Friends in The AFP and a Malicious Prosecution
How a failed accountant, a compliant university registrar and a police force with a race problem manufactured a case against an Indigenous public servant.
August 19, 2026
Jason Arday: A Neutral Account of the Allegations versus Racial Targeting
A synthesis of public reporting as of 17 August 2026. Cause of death has not been confirmed.
August 18, 2026
Commonwealth Government / Discrimination / Discrimination/Racism / Government / Racism / Sexism / Uncategorized
Pauline Hanson’s Politics Of Personal Dislikes
To dislike it not enough. The opinion of the leader must translate to policy a justifiable bind, especially when it touches those already disadvantaged.
August 17, 2026
Unfinished Reckoning: Auschwitz and the Fires Still Burning
The legacy of Auschwitz remains the same as at the day of liberation - to remember how the horrors of Holocaust were allowed to happen.
August 16, 2026
The Mirror and the Muzzle: Indigenous Truth and the Australian Press
Australian newsrooms haven’t reflected the country they report on in years. New audit data, Closing the Gap figures and justice reinvestment evidence show why.
August 12, 2026
The Scare Politics of Islam: Distraction, Fear and the Contested Terrain of Identity
Fear of Islam has been weaponised for votes - and Islamist violence is real. An evidence-based look at where distraction ends and threat begins.
August 11, 2026
Accountability / ACT Government / Australian Aborigines / Australian Federal Police / Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / Ernst & Young / First Nations/Indigenous / Former Commissioner / Government / Human Rights / Racism
Be Alert, Be Alarmed: How Justice Fails in the Australian Capital Territory
It took multiple people and agencies to ruin the lives of the former Commissioner for Revenue and his family and it can happen to you as well.
August 7, 2026
The Man From Nowhere: A Madeleine at Thirty Thousand Feet
A bottle of red, a madeleine biscuit ... the mundane things that trigger involuntary memory.
August 2, 2026
Accountability / ACT Government / Australian Aborigines / Australian Federal Police / Discrimination / Discrimination/Racism / First Nations/Indigenous / Former Commissioner / Government / Justice / Law Enforcement / Racism
Common Beliefs: Two Decades Of Institutional Protection For A Racist Public Servant
Over twenty years of seemingly direct support for Angel Marina in the face of his racism leads to the conclusion that the ALP and AFP are both racist.
July 31, 2026
The Weight of the Hill: Indigenous Australian Experience Since Colonisation
The professor names the oppressors with taxonomic precision – and is correct about all of them. He cannot, however, imagine that Aboriginal people laugh.
June 29, 2026
Impossible Monoculture: Diversity, Pluralism and the Australia That Actually Exists
I. Two Arguments That Must Not Be Confused The case against monoculturalism in Australia rests on two distinct foundations that are often conflated, and the conflation weakens both. The first…
June 25, 2026
Exclusion: White Nationalism and the Moral Imperative of Resistance
Coordinated effort across education, institutions, legislation and community is required to counter the skewed narratives of white nationalism
June 16, 2026
Fiction Become Prophecy: A Contemporary Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
Higher expectations and broader negative assumptions of an Indigenous man underpin the pervasive structural racism that destroys First Nations lives.
May 28, 2026
ACT Government / Australian Aborigines / Australian Federal Police / Commonwealth Government / Discrimination/Racism / Former Commissioner / Racism / Uncategorized
Sorry Means Accountability: A Sorry Day Essay
Every year on the 26th of May, Australia observes National Sorry Day. Flags are lowered. Speeches are made. Politicians stand at podiums and invoke the language of healing, reconciliation, and…
May 27, 2026
ACT Government / Australian Aborigines / Australian Federal Police / Discrimination/Racism / Former Commissioner / Justice / Racism
Still Standing: A Note to Readers of Blak and Black
Some of you have been reading this blog since its earliest days. You know the history. You know what was attempted. This is a brief note to tell you that…
May 20, 2026
Superfluous People: Anticipation Without Consummation – A History
Regardless of recommendations, time and again, the rights of Indigenous people in Australia are subordinated to those of others, The Gap never closing.
May 14, 2026