Fear and Trembling – Australia’s gutless approach to the genocide in Papua
The following article appeared in Friday’s Jakarta Post: Maj. Gen. Wisnu Bawatenaya has been appointed to become commander of the Indonesian Army Special Forces (Kopassus) replacing Maj. Gen. Lodewijk...
View ArticleHas the Pacific Islands Forum (“PIF”) become a tool for white neo-colonial...
The progress of human society, has in different ages, presented abundance of horrors and abundance of vices, which in treating history properly, we are obliged to pass over gently, and often to...
View ArticleComplicity, obligation and mutual respect
When we look at a map of the world’s major trouble spots we see or at least I see, a white footprint superimposed over each and every one of these trouble spots. Via this process it is possible to...
View ArticleAFP accused of fabricating evidence, yet again!
Post update The Australian Government has today 28 September, 2011 at 7:30PM announced that it has invoked its right to immunity from prosecution in the Solomon Islands over a secret witness payments...
View ArticleYou can’t preach the moral high ground and walk in the gutter: Australia and...
Recurrent themes in Australian politics since the events of 9/11 and the beginning of the euphemistically though erroneously named ‘war on terror’ have been national security, border protection and...
View ArticleAustralia in the Solomons: A case study in 21st Century Gunboat Diplomacy
Update: Subsequent to writing this post the Solomon Start has published an article which confirms much of what Blak and Black has been arguing concerning RAMSI’s role in the Solomon Islands and the...
View ArticleAusAIDing and Abetting Corruption
Since writing my article Australia in the Solomons: A case study in 21st Century Gunboat Diplomacy I have had the opportunity to do some more research into AusAID and its so called commitment to the...
View ArticleWhat values do we want to bequeath to our children?
There are many reasons behind Blak and Black’s decision to attempt to identify and expose Australian Federal Police (AFP) corruption where we can, the main reason however is the relative power even the...
View ArticleAFP implicated in West Papuan genocide
The following is a media release from Westpapuamedia.info According to credible local sources in Puncak Jaya, Indonesian troops razed a civilian village while conducting a massive offensive against...
View ArticleMoti a champion of indigenous human rights
Congratulations Julian Moti QC on your well-deserved win over Australian racism and hypocrisy! “If the criminal justice system is corrupted, or otherwise interfered with, a community is left with few...
View ArticleBintang Kejora: a struggle for a new dawn
Former Kopassus commander Lt. Gen. (ret.) Prabowo Subianto (who was “forced to retire because of his involvement in the kidnapping, torture, and murder of democracy activists in early 1998”) has...
View ArticleThe Lombok Treaty: a win for self interest over justice
The current humanitarian crises in West Papua, formally West New Guinea (“WNG”), has at its roots Western colonial greed and paranoia over Soviet influence in the region. WNG was and remains...
View ArticleIndonesia and Australia the illegitimate states of the Asia Pacific Region
What is self-determination? The notion of self-determination as a universal principle, whether viewed through a political, moral, or legal lens, has been and continues to be imprecise and in dire need...
View ArticleOperation Helpem Fren
On 18 January 2012 the Solomon Star reported that RAMSI apologist and the former Solomon Islands Finance Minister and Member of Parliament for West New Georgia and Vona Vona, Peter Boyers, was arrested...
View ArticleWest Papua and the vote of no choice!
These feelings which we Cubans have already acquired will have to be shared by someday. Today it hurts us if a Cuban is hungry, if a Cuban has no doctor, if a Cuban child suffers or is uneducated, or...
View ArticlePortia’s Lament: Western greed and the death of the indigenous cultures of...
Fragments from the Alfoxden Notebook There he would stand In the still covert of some [lonesome?] rock, Or gaze upon the moon until its light Fell like a strain of music on his soul And seemed to sink...
View ArticleAFP racism sparks diplomatic row between Australia and Vanuatu
On 2nd May, 2012 the Vanuatu Daily Post reported that Private Secretary in the Prime Minister’s Office Clarence Marae had been arrested at Sydney International Airport by the Australian Federal Police...
View ArticleMelanesia and Indigenous Australia: white privilege and the ‘rule of law’
Melanesia and Indigenous Australia: white privilege and the ‘rule of law’ … first, I made him know his Name should be Friday, which was the Day I sav’d his Life; I call’d him so for the Memory of the...
View ArticleA process of truth and judgement
Judgement is our oldest belief, our most habitual holding-true or holding un-true, an assertion or denial, a certainty that something is thus not otherwise, a belief that here we really “know” – what...
View ArticlePromises and passages – it’s all an illusion
Promises and passage, that what’s they were sold. A truth not realized, the loss of all that was family and home. The South Sea Islanders who came to Australia in the 1800s and early 1900s were...
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