In Australia there is no greater rights struggle than the Aboriginal rights struggle. It is a human rights struggle where not only the First Peoples of this continent were violently and murderously dispossessed of their lands but since the advent of British colonialism onto their shores they were subjected to segregation, apartheid and the systematic […]
January 2015
On January 11th 2014 I wrote the following as part of an article about casual racism: “Last night, as I watched the Perth Scorchers win their T20 game against the Sydney Sixers, I reflected on the many derisive comments that I have heard in the last few years about people of Muslim faith. The generalisations […]
I stood there, in my underwear. They were pale blue, with small flowers on them. I remember it very clearly – mostly because there were four men in the room who I had never met before. They were looking at my body, and my mother wore a worried expression. The tallest man touched me. “You […]
Delegates and supporters of the Freedom Movement have set themselves a date with destiny after marching on Parliament House in Canberra on Tuesday declaring they would be back in even larger numbers on February 9 to confront the country’s politicians about their treatment and policies affecting First Nations People. More than 200 delegates and supporters […]
On New Year’s Day a little girl was born, opening her eyes to the world, but to what kind of a world? Compassionate or merciless? By this Thursday, only 28 days old this little baby will be homeless. It is bullshit a 28 day old baby should be homeless. Not just this little baby but also her […]
One of the major reasons Western Australia’s prison population is at a record high is because the State is jailing poverty stricken fine defaulters. The State’s Corrective Service Minister, Joe Francis, supports the jailing as a due punishment. More than 15 per cent of Western Australia’s prison population is comprised by fine defaulters. Ludicrously, they […]
At least Peter Greste has what the majority of those who are unjustly persecuted or imprisoned have not. Mr Greste has the lens of the world’s media watching over him. From within this support Mr Greste has drawn strength while incarcerated in Cairo’s Mazraa’s prison. On New Year Day’s Mr Greste wrote a letter to […]
The Bureau of Prisons contacted me today, assigning me a prison number and a new address: for the next 90 days, beginning tomorrow, I’ll live at FMC Lexington, in the satellite prison camp for women, adjacent to Lexington’s federal medical center for men. Very early tomorrow morning, Buddy Bell, Cassandra Dixon, and Paco and Silver, […]
“Go back to his books and rediscover the potency and the appeal – and, often, the joie d’esprit – of his writings: on cricket, on Muhammad Ali, on his own journey as an anti-Zionist Jew and, of course, on Bob Dylan.” Anne Beech, Pluto Press. “The crowd reminds me that I only put myself in […]
The term ‘Aborigine’ means ‘been there since the beginning of time.’ The term ‘indigenous’ was mainly used to describe plants and animals. It means ‘native to the land.’ Rosalie Kunoth-Monks asserted, “I am not an Aboriginal, or indeed indigenous, I am … (a) first nation’s person. A sovereign person from this country.” (Rosalie Kunoth-Monks, 2014) […]
General News
- If we are to reduce suicides and miserableness let us differentiate who is mentally unwell and who is not
13 May 2017
More Australians suicided in the one year, 2015, than in any other year and sadly it may soon be reported that just as many or more suicided in 2016. Though I pray I am proven wrong it is likely that […]
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- Suicide prevention needs people on the ground, not just talk
10 May 2017
There is more disseminated today than ever before about suicide. However understanding suicide prevention is still a journey to be had for the majority of Australians. The most important understanding is that more people are needed on the ground to […]
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- Former US Congressional staffer, MIT research affiliate, discredits 2013 UN report on Ghouta chemical attack
15 Apr 2017
Do not trust anyone. Assad is not responsible for the abominable chemical gas attacks in Ghouta in 2013 and in Idlib in 2017. War is an abomination. Bombs and missiles are an abomination. The US led coalition has ‘dropped’ more […]
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- WikiLeaks – in the face of betrayal they remain heroic
13 Apr 2017
WikiLeaks Publishing is one of the world’s most remarkable organisations. It continues despite numerous attempts to shut it down. Its founder is a political prisoner. The world’s media should have been transformed by WikiLeaks courageous downloads in its taking on […]
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- Corrective Services Minister Fran Logan correct with how to reduce incarceration rates – “don’t build more prisons”
10 Apr 2017
In the most profound statement by a Corrective Services minister in this nation, Western Australia’s Fran Logan said there’d be no new jail for the state. He stated that a review of remand prisoners was needed to free those […]
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- Not true that Assad gassed his people but millions pay the price in a world of lies
9 Apr 2017
In a world of lies, the ability to discover the truth is outstripped by the capacity to manifest deceit. All wars are an abomination and within these abominations, without fail, there are litanies of lies to further pollute the air, […]
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- Syria – millions pay the price
8 Apr 2017
The media and commentators are carrying on as if American missiles have hit Syria for the first time, as if the tragic score of casualties to US missiles and bombs are a recent first. There have been tens of […]
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- Climate of Hate
2 Apr 2017
Anger and hate spread perniciously and the latest stretch of Australia in modernity is testament to a building up of a level of hate that decades ago would have been unexpected of today. There is a climate of hate in […]
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- In the war on racism, the migrant-born are forever left behind
1 Apr 2017
More than one quarter of Australia’s population is comprised of migrants – of Australians who were born overseas. But in the discussions on the war on racism, migrants and the Australian born children of migrants do get a mention in […]
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- Compassion for Mark Latham, not pitchforks
31 Mar 2017
I disagree with just about everything that Mark Latham opines and in how he chooses to opine however it serves no grand purpose to galvanise malice and hate towards him; no purposeful meaning to hypocritically ‘lampoon’ Mr Latham as in […]
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