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The Law That Looks Away: Accountability, Honest Data, and the Long Work of Justice in Australian Policing
Accountability / Australian Aborigines / Australian Federal Police / Corruption / Law Enforcement

The Law That Looks Away: Accountability, Honest Data, and the Long Work of Justice in Australian Policing

The law must be held to account. The institutions that carry it must be held to account. The politicians who shape those institutions must be held to account.

7 Comments
June 23, 2026
Flee The Fear: Countering the One Nation Politics of Dread
Commonwealth Government / Government / Propaganda / Refugees

Flee The Fear: Countering the One Nation Politics of Dread

A slogan to counter Hanson's tactics and refuse to engage it the politics of fear.

7 Comments
June 15, 2026
The Oneness of Humanity: Universal Themes in Global Indigenous Creation Myths
Human Rights / Shared humanity / Uncategorized

The Oneness of Humanity: Universal Themes in Global Indigenous Creation Myths

Commonalities in Creation myths across Indigenous cultures point toward a shared origin and universal imagination.

9 Comments
June 3, 2026
The Weight of No Charges: Kumanjayi White and the Persistence of Police Impunity
Assimilation / First Nations/Indigenous / Law Enforcement / Uncategorized

The Weight of No Charges: Kumanjayi White and the Persistence of Police Impunity

Australian institutions are failing to implement the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody.

9 Comments
May 29, 2026
Fiction Become Prophecy: A Contemporary Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
Australian Aborigines / Discrimination/Racism / Former Commissioner / Justice / Racism

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.

16 Comments
May 28, 2026
Sorry Means Accountability: A Sorry Day Essay
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…

10 Comments
May 27, 2026
The Country Remembers
Australian Aborigines / First Nations/Indigenous

The Country Remembers

Before the word sorry was even possible, the country already knew what had been taken ...

6 Comments
May 26, 2026
The Weight We Will Not Name: Domestic Violence, Masculine Culture and the Australian Crisis
Culture / Human Rights / Respect

The Weight We Will Not Name: Domestic Violence, Masculine Culture and the Australian Crisis

Domestic violence in Australia is a cultural scourge, one for which men must take responsibility to lead its eradication.

9 Comments
May 21, 2026
Still Standing: A Note to Readers of Blak and Black
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…

10 Comments
May 20, 2026
I Am A Human Being
Australian Aborigines / First Nations/Indigenous

I Am A Human Being

I am Wiradjuri – and I am a human being.

9 Comments
May 17, 2026
Superfluous People: Anticipation Without Consummation – A History
Australian Aborigines / Discrimination/Racism / First Nations/Indigenous / Racism

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.

14 Comments
May 14, 2026
Blood and Songline
Australian Aborigines / First Nations/Indigenous / Genocide

Blood and Songline

The dead want to be counted. Write the count down.

15 Comments
May 13, 2026
The Candlestick Phone
Australian Aborigines / First Nations/Indigenous / Human Rights / Shared humanity

The Candlestick Phone

The day they came to tell me, I was at my desk ...

42 Comments
May 7, 2026
Words Without Witness: Commitment to a Safe Space for Indigenous People in the ACT
First Nations/Indigenous / Human Rights / Justice

Words Without Witness: Commitment to a Safe Space for Indigenous People in the ACT

Questioning Genuine Commitment by the ACT Government and the Australian Federal Police to Ensure the ACT is a Safe Space for Indigenous People to Live and Work.

11 Comments
May 1, 2026
State Power, Intersectional Identity and the Lie of Equality Before the Law
ACT Government / Discrimination/Racism / Former Commissioner / Government / International Law / Rule of Law

State Power, Intersectional Identity and the Lie of Equality Before the Law

Assuring equality under the law requires the persistent effort of people and institutions to deliver on the promise, a matter at which Australia is failing.

26 Comments
April 19, 2026
We Are Australian: The Timeless Hymn to Plurality
Human Rights / Shared humanity

We Are Australian: The Timeless Hymn to Plurality

Woodley and Newton's "we Are One" embodies the elements of Australia in a profound and unique way.

12 Comments
April 17, 2026
Australian Values: Gout Gout, Simpson and the Nation’s Soul
Assimilation / Australian Aborigines / Discrimination/Racism / First Nations/Indigenous / Racism

Australian Values: Gout Gout, Simpson and the Nation’s Soul

Australia is not and has never been a defined racial group. There is no racial purity and those who argue such are not its defenders.

9 Comments
April 16, 2026
Law, Image And Ceremony: Aboriginal Art and Systems of Knowledge
Art / Australian Aborigines / Culture / First Nations/Indigenous

Law, Image And Ceremony: Aboriginal Art and Systems of Knowledge

Yolngu painting is more than art. It is a living expression of ancestors, land and community, one with the Dreaming.

7 Comments
April 7, 2026
Early Drug Diversion, Privilege and Racism in NSW Police
Australian Aborigines / Discrimination/Racism / First Nations/Indigenous / Law Enforcement / NSW Police / Racism

Early Drug Diversion, Privilege and Racism in NSW Police

Inequities in the management of first-time drug offences by NSW Police highlight the ongoing problems in Closing the Gap.

10 Comments
April 6, 2026
Valedictory: Rhoda Ann Roberts AO Returns to the Dreaming
Australian Aborigines / First Nations/Indigenous

Valedictory: Rhoda Ann Roberts AO Returns to the Dreaming

An Indigenous woman, a luminary, a creator. We are the lesser for her loss.

9 Comments
March 22, 2026
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Publications

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  • RAMSI - the scion of the juggernaut of greed

    Solomon Star 13 October 2011
  • AFP accused of fabricating evidence, yet again!

    Solomon Star (Print only) 4 October 2011
  • Moti affair

    Solomon Star 14 September 2011
  • Moti affair

    Fiji Sun 12 September 2011
  • Moti appeal exposes mixed loyalties and judicial corruption

    Solomon Star 22 July 2011
  • Moti end game

    FijiSun 22 July 2011
  • Letters to the editor: Article by Bakchos

    Solomon Star 20 July 2011
  • Co-operate or else! AFP thuggery for a white Australia

    Solomon Star 24 June 2011
  • The strange case of Bill Johnson, a study in neo-colonial hypocrisy

    Solomon Star 17 June 2011
  • Neo-colonialism in the Torres Strait

    Solomon Star 14 June 2011
  • Moti and other affairs

    Solomon Star 9 June 2011
  • Comment: Excellent Read

    Fiji Sun 7 June 2011

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Proudly Aboriginal

Notable Quotes

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  • "You'll burn you coon cunt"
    Pingback left on the post The 'Stolen Generations' and Cultural Genocide on May 8, 2012, after Bakchos was racially assaulted by having a pillowcase placed over his head, a noose around his neck and petrol poured over him by four masked individuals.

    (You'll burn you coon cunt, second response beneath post, appearing to link back to ACT Policing when clicked.)

  • "... I used to work for the AFP and some guys I worked with told me to make a false statement and make false entries in my diary and day book. And lie in court!"

    (Mike Barclay, former Australian Federal Police Officer)

  • "Specifically you are reminded that you cannot use any information you gained in the course of your employment regarding the possible illegal transfer of ACT Government assets to the Marrickville Branch of the Australian Labor Party, [a named Sydney brothel] or the New South Wales [named NSW Minister of the Crown]."

    (Cathy Kosmidis, Personnel Section, Urban Services)

  • "I’ll let you into a secret, everyone at Ernst & Young … want to see you dead.

    … who really cares, no one cares about you black cunts. Well some nigger in the New York office might, but they are only there because of positive discrimination, really they cant write, read, count or spell so what use are they in an accounting firm?"

    (An Ernst & Young Australia employee)

  • "You can't preach a high road and walk in the gutter."

    (Watershedd)

  • "You don’t have to worry about your little boong mate Marky suing you for fitting him up. When I’m finished with him he’ll be in the gutter where he belongs with all his other boong mates."

    (ACT DPP Prosecutor)

  • "Clearly, with the expansion of the AFP under Mick Keelty ... the AFP has morphed into something unrecognisable. It’s forgotten its core business and turned into a rogue arm of government at the government’s disposal to help effect political goals."

    (Susan Merrell, Journalist)

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