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Blakandblack

@blakandblack.bsky.social
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Enemy of the establishment. Friend to everyone else. Business owner. Rugby and boxing enthusiast. My view on life: party hard today, because tomorrow might never come 🇪🇺🇦🇺✡️

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
trickle down economics trickle down economic trickle down economi trickle down econom trickle down econo trickle down econ trickle down eco trickle down ec trickle down e trickle down trickle dow trickle do trickle d trickle trickl trick
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Blakandblack @blakandblack.bsky.social · 21h
Just as you cannot step into the same river twice, you cannot step back into the past of any society, and anyone who tells you otherwise is either deliberately deceiving you or deceiving themselves. BAKCHOS I THE SAME RIVER TWICE blakandblack.com/2026/10/13/t...
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Blakandblack @blakandblack.bsky.social · 21h
Section 9(j) required her to disclose that interest and step away from the decisions. She did neither. WHY PHAM'S DECISIONS MATTER | Introduction blakandblack.com/2026/10/09/w...
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Sonans @sojaya.bsky.social · 22h
How absurd that this needs to be spelled out. Sometimes I think I am mental because I don’t understand how this is not the baseline basic part of society. But I also didn’t get why people didn’t understand quarantine for sick people in covid times. Maybe im just too much of a bush girl.
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Blakandblack @blakandblack.bsky.social · 23h
A culture that has endured for thousands of years is an asset to the nation and not a problem for it. Everyone Has Something to Offer • Bakchos blakandblack.com/2026/10/10/f...
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Blakandblack @blakandblack.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I don’t think that we should mention that game ever again 🤦🏽
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Blakandblack @blakandblack.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Heraclitus: no one steps in the same river twice. Neither the river nor the person is the same. So when a politician promises to turn the clock back, what exactly is she promising to return us to? New essay on nostalgia, flux and Pauline Hanson. blakandblack.com/2026/10/13/t...
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The Same River Twice: Heraclitus and Hanson
Pauline Hanson would have Australian's believe that they can return to a White Australia. nothing could be further from the truth.
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Blakandblack @blakandblack.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Trump has again failed to bully his way to the Nobel Peace Prize … his response … another kiddy temper tantrum 🍼😭
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Blakandblack @blakandblack.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
The feet are small. I don’t know how many, perhaps 15, 20 sandwiched between slabs of concrete. They are NAZA. A husband calling for his wife, “My love”, for his son, “Sa’id … I told you to look after your sister …”. The closing images of the documentary NAZA… blakandblack.com/2026/10/12/n...
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NAZA – Documetary Review
The feet are small. I don't know how many, perhaps 15, 20 sandwiched between slabs of concrete. They are NAZA. A husband is calling for his wife, "My love", for his son, "Sa'id ... I told you to look ...
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ElmsGlen @elmsglen.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
So,so very true. Colonists destroying the evidence.
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Bruce Porter (Australia) @bruceporter72.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Weak minded fear arguments attract weak, simple people. Stems from a myth that colonialism is a good thing.🤦‍♂️
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Blakandblack @blakandblack.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
"Once a people has been defined out of the legal order, nearly anything can be done to them, and nearly anything can be said about them." BLAK AND BLACK Tied to the Fence - Bakchos blakandblack.com/2026/10/11/t...
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My Zero Carbon #ClimateAction @myzerocarbon.org · 05/10/2026
🎶 Pedal Power A fun music #video to get you excited about the benefits of #cycling #ClimateAction #airquality #health #wellbeing #ClimateChange #EndFossilFuels PL RP🩷💚💙Thank you! Enjoy! 🎶
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Blakandblack @blakandblack.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
When a legal fiction declares a continent empty, its people become obstacles, and nearly anything can be said about them. "Tied to the Fence": why racism against Indigenous Australians is so cheap, and why the silence of bystanders keeps it that way. blakandblack.com/2026/10/11/t...
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Tied to the Fence: Terra Nullius, Mixed Ancestry and Silence
The racist contempt some people direct at Indigenous people has its origins in the legal fiction of terra nullius.
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Blakandblack @blakandblack.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
BLAK AND BLACK Laws that are unethical are instruments of power, not fairness. WHY PHAM'S DECISIONS MATTER | The Ethics of Decision-Making blakandblack.com/2026/10/09/w...
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Blakandblack @blakandblack.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Alice Springs, 1986: Pope John Paul II said Aboriginal songs, stories and languages "must never be lost." Forty years on, populist politics leans on othering to cover for a lack of ideas. New essay on why culture matters and why the learning must run both ways blakandblack.com/2026/10/10/f...
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First Nations · Indigenous Culture And Politics
The culture of First Nations people was cherished by Pope John Paul II in a way few non-Indgenous people have bothered to try.
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Blakandblack @blakandblack.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
BLAK AND BLACK Section 9(j) required her to disclose that interest and step away from the decisions. She did neither. WHY PHAM'S DECISIONS MATTER blakandblack.com/2026/10/09/w...
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Craig's Late Night Douche Bag Patrol🦘🦘🦘 @vincentsworkisdone.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Blakandblack @blakandblack.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Conflict of interest is not corruption. Failing to declare one is where the problem starts. Our new essay applies Section 9(j) of the ACT Public Sector Management Act to Tu Pham's decisions about Mark Mullins in late 2003 and early 2004. blakandblack.com/2026/10/09/w...
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Why Pham’s Decisions Matter: Conflict of Interest in the Public Service
Pham's actions in the dismissal of the only Indigenous employee at the time raise questions of impartiality and conflict of interest.
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Blakandblack @blakandblack.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
BLAK AND BLACK The Homer we revere is therefore the written residue of an oral tradition, and the classics shelf rests on a debt to unwritten memory. SONGS AS ARCHIVE • HOMER AND THE COMING OF WRITING blakandblack.com/2026/10/06/w...
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Andy Paterson @agpat.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Zionism & One Nation is a form of racism. Being afraid of the diversity of cultures is racism. Blaming new Australians for the high cost of rent & housing is the most ridiculous of arguments. Wealthy & greedy people use these distracting narratives, so we fight amongst ourselves, it divide us.
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Blakandblack @blakandblack.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
BLAK AND BLACK Literacy changes how a tradition is kept, but a society without it was not a society without history. SONGS AS ARCHIVE • THE STANDARD WE APPLY blakandblack.com/2026/10/07/s...
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Blakandblack @blakandblack.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Pauline Hanson, One Nation and others on the far right…
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Blakandblack @blakandblack.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Three years on from 7 October: the Hamas atrocities and the scale of harm to Gaza's children belong in the same ledger. UN figures put children killed above 20,000 and injured above 44,000, against about 800 killed in Ukraine. Nuremberg promised one standard for all blakandblack.com/2026/10/08/g...
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Gaza Three Years On: Children, Witnesses, Nuremberg
Following the Nuremberg Trials, principles binding on other governments were agreed. Accountability for massacres must apply, regardless of the state responsible.
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Blakandblack @blakandblack.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
BLAK AND BLACK What distinguishes the two cases is not the quality of the evidence but an assumption, rarely stated, that writing is the only legitimate technology of memory. SONGS AS ARCHIVE • THE STANDARD WE APPLY blakandblack.com/2026/10/07/s...
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Blakandblack @blakandblack.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Oral song is not "unsubstantiated myth." Nobody says that of Homer, whose poems are the written residue of a tradition sung for centuries before anyone wrote it down. On Parry, the guslari and Aboriginal song as history: "Songs as Archive" blakandblack.com/2026/10/07/s...
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Songs as Archive
The carriage of history through song is not unique to Aboriginal people. It is a record of events, as important as Homer, that must be read in context.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Blakandblack @blakandblack.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Gaza's health ministry has recorded more than 74,243 Palestinians killed and a further 175,232 injured since the war began. Of those injured, thousands have been maimed, with more than 6,000 people undergoing amputations. apple.news/AsuOSMpE8Qwy...
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As Israel votes, a $101-billion question around Gaza's future hangs in the balance — SBS News
Gaza's redevelopment has completely stalled, as some residents face a third winter in tents.
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Blakandblack @blakandblack.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Minns Fashion Police An Irish clover gets praise in the streets, A French beret earns approving tweets. Greek funny shoes, a kippah pass through, No fuss, no alarms, nothing to do— But Palestinian dress? Call the fashion police!
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Blakandblack @blakandblack.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It is both deeply traditional and genuinely new, and the tension between those two qualities is the source of its strength. BLAK AND BLACK Welcome to Country: From Ancestral Protocol to Civic Ceremony blakandblack.com/2026/10/05/w...
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Blakandblack @blakandblack.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
BLAK AND BLACK "I was prosecuted on sixteen charges — racially motivated, politically driven, built upon a fabricated document. I was acquitted on all sixteen counts. Sixteen-nil." Appointment Without Accountability blakandblack.com/2026/06/24/a...
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Blakandblack @blakandblack.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
THE BURDEN Of PROOF "It asks a magistrate or judge to predict the future conduct of a teenager with something close to certainty, and it places the burden of proving a negative on the child." Presumed Guilty at Fourteen: The Case Against 22C blakandblack.com/2026/10/04/p...
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Blakandblack @blakandblack.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
An Australian soldier died in a training exercise at a military training area in the Northern Territory, the Department of Defence confirmed. The soldier, not named, died during the exercise at the Mount Bundey Training Area on Monday, five other soldiers were injured. apple.news/AgmgkyHM7RMK...
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Australian soldier killed in NT military exercise — The Sydney Morning Herald
Five other Australian Army soldiers were injured, according to a statement from the Defence Department.
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Blakandblack @blakandblack.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It was the means by which a society without writing recorded who owned what, who owed what to whom, and how a particular stretch of land was to be treated. blakandblack.com/2026/10/06/w...
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Blakandblack @blakandblack.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Yesterday's post on Welcome to Country argued from the present. This essay argues from the ceremonial life that stands behind it. The English word "Dreamtime" pulls readers toward myth and the distant past, which is exactly the wrong direction. blakandblack.com/2026/10/06/w...
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Wangarr, Tjukurrpa, Ngurambang: Ceremony as the Law of Country
Dreamtime and Welcome to Country are continuities of Aboriginal law, unique to each country and extending throughout time.
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Blakandblack @blakandblack.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It is a small grammatical decision that carries a large philosophical weight, because it encodes the Aboriginal understanding of land as something one belongs to rather than something one possesses. Welcome to Country: blakandblack.com/2026/10/05/w...
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Blakandblack @blakandblack.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Where does the Welcome to Country actually come from? The record shows real, varied protocols of permission, hospitality and safe passage and a modern ceremony shaped by Lyle Roberts, Dickee Donnelly, Richard Walley, Rhoda Roberts and Gary Foley in the 1970s and 80s blakandblack.com/2026/10/05/w...
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Welcome to Country: Ancestral Protocol to Civic Ceremony
Far from being a recent contrivance, Welcome Country has ancient origins to do with protection and safety whilst on the land.
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Blakandblack @blakandblack.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Netanyahu and the plumber aka Bollywood without the hot women…
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Blakandblack @blakandblack.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A 14-year-old Aboriginal boy spent three months in custody before the charges were likely to be withdrawn. No later decision returns that time. blakandblack.com/2026/10/04/p...
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Presumed Guilty at Fourteen: The Case Against 22C
Section 22C of the NSW Bail Act has stronger expectations for children than adults, presuming them guilty rather than innocent.
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Blakandblack @blakandblack.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Fact and obligation arrive together, as parts of one knowledge, encoded in law, ceremony, and kinship. blakandblack.com/2026/10/03/o...
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Blakandblack @blakandblack.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Yes Trump’s America is a case study in what happens when a special interest group capture all of the levers of power.
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Mike @bikeymikey70.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I understand your point, but law is a tool created by those in power, to protect and benefit them, and control the masses Law came from Kings and the Church We have a tyrant in the US, where his court appointments allow him to break the law with impunity.
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Blakandblack @blakandblack.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"A political figure whose platform is shot through with policies that target people by race, religion and country of origin is simultaneously the beneficiary of what looks like a genuine, broad-based protest movement." Hanson Paradox: Popularity Despite the Racism blakandblack.com/2026/09/15/t...
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Blakandblack @blakandblack.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The point is about the rule of law. Even a clearly evil person should get the protection of ordinary legal process. If you suspend or destroy the law to reach someone you are sure is wicked, those same protections are gone when power turns on you or on anyone else.
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Blakandblack @blakandblack.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The uses and abuses of the politics of civility…
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Blakandblack @blakandblack.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The fine art of coffee ☕️ 🐱
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Blakandblack @blakandblack.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The world does not need us to rule it. It needs us to take our place in it with understanding, humility, and a willingness to be answerable when the answers are hard. blakandblack.com/2026/10/03/o...
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Blakandblack @blakandblack.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Caturday Nap Sun warms the windowsill Paws curl beneath a patch of light Dreams chase paper moons #Caturday
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Blakandblack @blakandblack.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Dependence by itself creates no obligation. A tick depends on its host. So where does "we owe the living world" come from? New essay on fact, choice, and what a holistic view of the environment can and cannot prove. blakandblack.com/2026/10/03/o...
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On Ethics: The Commons We Are Made Of
Environmental ethics requires of us to live with humility as part of the whole rather than attempting to take control.
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AL @al-redy5.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
EXPOSED Good news for anyone considering harassment, stalking or intimidation. According to recent experience, being "unknown" may be the ultimate defence. @evacide.bsky.social @blakandblack.bsky.social 🔽 @australia.theguardian.com Was Brittany Higgins right to be concerned about Law Enforcement?
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