Engagement or colonisation, what should Australia’s role in the Pacific be?
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 I could the true nature and extent of racism in...
View ArticleMamdouh Habib, the AFP and Australia’s ‘Democracy’
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...
View ArticleSieg Heil Oz
Sieg Heil is a German phrase which literally means “Hail [to] Victory.” During the Nazi era, it was a common chant at political rallies. When meeting someone, it was customary in Nazi Germany to give...
View ArticleMr Commissioner Hypocrisy doesn’t equal integrity
As part of the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Additional estimates for 2006–2007, held in February 2007, Senator Evans put the following question on notice to the...
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Your vote, your voice, make it count
Like I said last time, I’m annoyed. Pissed, to be exact. Excuse the vent, but I’m utterly disgusted in the attitudes that are so blatantly expressed by some people in the Australian community. Take...
View ArticleAripaea Salmon – his own words
In the previous post, ‘Thou shall not fall into the chasm of disobeying the rule of law‘, technical difficulties were encountered in incorporating the interview by Dr. Susan Merrell. This has now been...
View ArticleAustralian Federal Police Complicity in the Torture and Killing of Mr. Yawan...
“In working with Indonesian agencies you can get tension between the responsibility you think you owe to your own citizens … and the conduct of some Indonesian agencies that are not up to our...
View ArticleAn update: Is Native Title worth the paper it’s written on?
Following is the text of an press release from the Yindjibarndi Aboriginal Corporation regarding the relocation of the video of the March 16 meeting. PRESS RELEASE YINDJIBARNDI ABORIGINAL CORPORATION...
View ArticleFortescue’s True Yindjibarndi Story
Attack is the best form of defence. The people of Yindjibarndi have been doing just that, with the video of the March 16 meeting proving to a be an international success, going viral and spreading word...
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Yindjibarndi update: Veneration or desecration?
“I’m really starting to understand how the Aborigines feel … this country has to stop stealing other people’s land!” (‘Daryl Kerrigan’, The Castle) Open cut mine I was having a chuckle a few nights ago...
View ArticleCraig Thomson, the ALP and sleaze
My apologies for not following through with my promise to make my next post about Miles Jordana, Howard’s fall-guy. I’m still waiting for a former colleague on the issue and some further and better...
View ArticleAustralia’s piracy on the high seas
“Many of the asylum seekers facing return to Sri Lanka are likely to have valid protection claims. Historically, 90 percent of Sri Lankan boat arrivals to Australia have been found to be refugees. In...
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Australia, waking to #BlackLivesMatter
We have questions to answer, Australia. Questions about who we are as a people, what behaviour we expect and accept from our leaders and how we address the abuse of individual and societal civil...
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He made the many lies seem similar to the truth
The ever-touring Englishman “The ever-touring Englishman have built their bungalowsAll over the sweet forrestThey drive their trains with smokeO look at them, how they talk on their wires to one...
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God I hate the white supremists
God I hate the white supremists I’m dedicating this post to all the #whitesupremists who feel a need to drop by my social media accounts and gratuitously berate me because of my ethnicity. I’m...
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7 legacies of John Howard’s government
What did John Howard’s time as Prime Minister mean for #FirstNations Australia? On the 20th anniversary of his win, The Point takes a look at seven decisions that changed the landscape of First...
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#Justice4Mullins , a black life that matters
The following is an unfinished saga of racism & corruption; about how far one jurisdiction will go to cover up their misdeeds, the people who are complicit & the Australian First Nations man...
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Jon Stanhope, the man who washed his hands of Mullins
“Jon Stanhope appeared to see the world as both binary and polar. All that is good in the world was embodied by the Labor party, and all that is bad by the Liberals. For most people this is a...
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The ACT Barr Government, ducking the hard calls for another term
On October 17, voters in the Australian Capital Territory will finalize their decisions regarding who should govern them for the next four years. In that decision, they will no doubt remember the push...
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20 Years of friends in the Australian Federal Police
Some days demand that we pause to reflect on an event on the same date in the past. For Blak and Black that day is 9 May and this year marks 20 years since Angel Marina wrote his now widely recognised...
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