Blakandblack
@blakandblack.bsky.social
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 🇪🇺🇦🇺✡️
Soldiers standing in front of a projector to stop a documentary about deforestation says more than the film ever could Pesta Babi has been shut down at 30+ locations across Indonesia since April. We trace the pattern & why it looks uncomfortably familiar from here blakandblack.com/2026/08/06/p...
Pig Feast: West Papua, Indonesia and Colonialism in Our Time
Censorship in the absence of government direction, even denial, underpins the continued destruction of culture and transparency.
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The clash between Stone and Isaacs remains relevant today, offering insights into the enduring complexities of Jewish identity and the imperatives of self-determination. blakandblack.com/2025/03/17/t...
The Clash of Perspectives: Julius Stone, Jewish Identity and the Zionist Imperative
Following the Holocaust, Julius Stone viewed the conception of Israel a practical necessity to prevent threat to the existence of the Jewish people.
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“The system worked' is true only if the measure of the system is the twelve people in the jury box." blakandblack.com/2026/07/31/c...
“The national imprisonment rate for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adults reached 2,500 per 100,000 in 2025 — 16.7 times the rate for non-Indigenous adults.” blakandblack.com/2026/08/05/t...
“Three out of nineteen. That is the sum total of what a decade of national agreement has purchased for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people by the halfway mark.” blakandblack.com/2026/08/05/t...
“Clearer terms make it possible to disagree about the right things — rather than about who is secretly in league with whom.” MISCONSTRUED AND MISUSED blakandblack.com/2026/08/04/m...
Halfway through Closing the Gap Agreement: 3 of 19 targets on track, 4 getting worse. The Productivity Commission’s 2026 report is blunt about why — self-determination works where allowed to. Justice & child protection are where governments have refused to let go blakandblack.com/2026/08/05/t...
The Arithmetic of Broken Promises: Closing the Gap
Persistent poor results on Closing the Gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous reflect an ongoing lack of support by governments.
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“The only fair reading of Mr Marina's letter of 9 May 2002 is that it expresses white-supremacist sentiment.” blakandblack.com/2026/07/31/c...
“Singling out criticism of Israel for a uniquely disqualifying label, applied to no other state's critics, is difficult to justify on principle.” MISCONSTRUED AND MISUSED blakandblack.com/2026/08/04/m...
“A serving public servant wrote a document a senior officer, under oath, called the most racist thing he had encountered in his career — and the ACT government took no disciplinary action whatsoever.” blakandblack.com/2026/07/31/c...
“Zionism did not simply represent ‘the Jews’; it won an argument among Jews.” New long-form essay on the conflation of Judaism, Zionism, Israel and antisemitism — where it comes from, who benefits, and why precision (not less debate) is the fix. blakandblack.com/2026/08/04/m...
Misconstrued and Misused: Defining Terms to Disarm Conflict
Addressing the political disputes in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict starts with clarity in language and the definition of key terms.
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“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…” Cathy Kosmidis, Personnel Section, ACT Department Urban Services
Queensland's ban on two pro-Palestinian phrases faces High Court challenge "from the river to the sea" and globalise the intifada" The Queensland Government refuses to acknowledge that people in this country reject genocide.
Prices up, wages flat, patience gone: the politics of grievance has fertile ground because people are angry — and anger is one of the last things still free. The economy keeps being viewed through the lens of those with the most.
Yolŋu MP accuse NT's CLP government of engaging in 'slow genocide' Yingiya Mark Guyula urged the federal government to intervene in the territory, where it has greater constitutional authority, in response to successive laws introduced by Finocchiaro government www.sbs.com.au/nitv/article...
“Judaism is a religion and a civilisation more than three thousand years old. Zionism is a political movement barely a century and a half old.” MISCONSTRUED AND MISUSED blakandblack.com/2026/08/04/m...
Judaism, Zionism, Israel, and antisemitism keep getting collapsed into one thing. They’re not. New essay pulls the categories apart — the 1975 UN resolution, Jewish anti-Zionism, the IHRA/Jerusalem Declaration split, and why the confusion never seems to die. blakandblack.com/2026/08/04/m...
Misconstrued and Misused: Defining Terms to Disarm Conflict
Addressing the political disputes in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict starts with clarity in language and the definition of key terms.
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Liberal deputy leader Jane Hume has fiercely rebuked any coalition between the conservative party and Pauline Hanson’s One Nation, despite some of her colleagues seemingly leaving the door open to a potential future alliance. apple.news/AHciF5sqzSoe...
Liberal deputy fires up over One Nation deal — news.com.au
A Liberal senator has ruled out any coalition with Pauline Hanson’s One Nation, despite some of her colleagues seemingly leaving the door open.
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“Acquittal is not vindication for the years, the cost, and the harm that preceded it; it is simply the correction of a wrong that should never have occurred." — BAKCHOS, "COMMON BELIEFS: TWO DECADES OF INSTITUTIONAL PROTECTION FOR A RACIST PUBLIC SERVANT" blakandblack.com/2026/07/31/c...
Staying at a friend’s place in Melbourne, I was surprised to find this on her bookshelf 🤔 The real point: the area now known as Israel, was called Palestine in 1919, when this New Testament was published. So much for the Zionist claim that it was never called Palestine 🤬
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Blakandblack @blakandblack.bsky.social · 4d agoII. A GRAMMATICAL CASE “By the time Griffith got to it, 'Babylon' had stopped being a place in Iraq and had become something closer to a grammatical case. Bakchos | Babylon Again: The West's Enduring Need for an Eastern Enemy BLAK AND BLACK blakandblack.com/2026/08/01/b...
II. A GRAMMATICAL CASE “By the time Griffith got to it, 'Babylon' had stopped being a place in Iraq and had become something closer to a grammatical case. Bakchos | Babylon Again: The West's Enduring Need for an Eastern Enemy BLAK AND BLACK blakandblack.com/2026/08/01/b...
Proust never needed a cathedral for the madeleine to work — a $4 airline shiraz does just as well. A new essay on inherited displacement, Angel Marina, and the grammar of erasure that survivors sometimes learn well enough to use on others. blakandblack.com/2026/08/02/t...
The Man From Nowhere: A Madeleine at Thirty Thousand Feet
A bottle of red, a madeleine biscuit ... the mundane things that trigger involuntary memory.
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⬆️ fyi @robertarnol.bsky.social @big-tony.bsky.social @pdutts68.bsky.social @cqjewellery.bsky.social @blakandblack.bsky.social @daverino.bsky.social I smell Fortescue whitewashing...
Fred Nurk@f2r3e5d4.bsky.social · 2mo ago18/ "The destruction of Juukan Gorge in May 2020 made Rio Tinto Australia’s most hated company. Its chairman and CEO were compelled to resign. That was over one sacred site. Yet Fortescue has destroyed more than a hundred of them!" #JuukanGorge #RioTinto #AusPol #Fortescue
A gem found on a Saturday evening sojourn to the bookshops of Melbourne … THE POETRY OF Chiyo-ni Japan’s most celebrated female haiku poet. “full moon keeping it in my eyes on a distance walk” Food for a reflective mind…
I. THE INVENTED RUIN "We built the wicked city so we could watch it fall, and then we couldn't be bothered clearing away the wreckage of our own invention.” Bakchos | Babylon Again: The West's Enduring Need for an Eastern Enemy BLAK AND BLACK blakandblack.com/2026/08/01/b...
