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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 FeetA bottle of red, a madeleine biscuit ... the mundane things that trigger involuntary memory.blakandblack.comI. 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...
Imagine the confected outrage if Hanson said there are “no good” Jews… Police have determined offensive comments made by One Nation leader Pauline Hanson that there are no "good" Muslims do not meet the threshold to be charged as a crime under new hate speech laws. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...
Pauline Hanson's no 'good' Muslims comments not hate speech, police saySenator Pauline Hanson's offensive comments, made during an interview in February, had been widely condemned by politicians and Islamic leaders as un-Australian.www.abc.net.auNew essay: the West has been dressing up its Middle East conflicts as ancient Babylon since before there was a Middle East policy to dress up. From Griffith’s 1916 backlot to a girls’ school in Minab, the myth is doing work the facts alone won’t do. “Babylon Again” blakandblack.com/2026/08/01/b...
Babylon Again: The West’s Enduring Need for an Eastern EnemyRepeating the patterns of millennia, The war in Iran is yet another instance of the West challenging the East, using the farce of divine rhetoric.blakandblack.com“Character, in the classical sense Marcus Aurelius meant it, is what a person does when the audit is due and no one is required to be watching” blakandblack.com/2026/07/30/t...
“Rhetoric aimed at 'ordinary' Australians, security purchased from the extraordinarily wealthy.” BAKCHOS, BLAK AND BLACK blakandblack.com/2026/07/30/t...
“Pattern is evidence. When a body of people repeatedly protects the same person, from the same accusation, over the same span of decades, at some point the protection becomes indistinguishable from endorsement.” blakandblack.com/2026/07/31/c...
A public servant wrote that Aboriginal people are “compulsive liars and criminals,” naming a Wiradjuri man’s own family. That letter has been protected for 20 yrs by ACT Labor and the AFP. When I pushed again, I was charged on 16 counts and acquitted on all of them blakandblack.com/2026/07/31/c...
Common Beliefs: Two Decades Of Institutional Protection For A Racist Public ServantOver twenty years of seemingly direct support for Angel Marina in the face of his racism leads to the conclusion that the ALP and AFP are both racist.blakandblack.com“Multiculturalism is not a decoration applied to the canvas after the fact. It is the pigment itself.” BLAK AND BLACK THE UNFINISHED MASTERPIECE blakandblack.com/2026/07/29/t...
Pauline Hanson wore Dolce & Gabbana in Taormina beside Gina Rinehart. A week later she called domestic violence “a two-way street” and told women “they shouldn’t put up with it.” Same fortnight: three years of One Nation Qld accounts, unaudited. One story, not three blakandblack.com/2026/07/30/t...
The Two-Way Street To Taormina: Hanson’s Campaign Against WomenPauline Hanson's twp-way street comment only exposes her own hypocrisy.blakandblack.com“The Unfinished Masterpiece.” A nation is a work of art in progress, multiculturalism isn’t something applied to it afterward — it’s the actual material the country is being painted with. On honesty about the underdrawing, and why the sceptic deserves a real answer blakandblack.com/2026/07/29/t...
The Unfinished Masterpiece: Multicultural Australia as a Work in ProgressAustralia is a ongoing multicultural masterpiece in the making.blakandblack.comI put this poem up about Albanese about seven weeks ago, I’m putting it up again, because I think that it has renewed relevance. The Get Out of Jail Free Card A Poem in Seven Counts Against the Man Who Believed in Nothing blakandblack.com/2026/06/06/t...
The Get Out of Jail Free CardA Poem in Seven Counts Against the Man Who Believed in Nothing “My mother did it tough. She raised me in public housing.That’s why I fight for people who are doing it tough today.” ~Anthony Albanese, ...blakandblack.com“Transparency about a wrong position does not make the position less wrong. It only removes your ability to say you were not warned.” BLAK AND BLACK THE LIE ONE NATION HAS NEVER TOLD blakandblack.com/2026/07/27/w...
Hanson told Tommy Robinson that Australia’s migration problems started in 1973 when Whitlam scrapped White Australia. The timeline is wrong & so is the tidy story of this history. New post on what actually happened — and what it does and doesn’t tell us about 2026 blakandblack.com/2026/07/27/t...
The White Australia Policy: Origin and Evolution as Present-day WarningThe White Australia Policy enabled the usuary maltreatment of South Sea Islanders and Indigenous people, ultimately excluding them from society.blakandblack.comI did not leave the Labor Party because I stopped believing in the things it claims to stand for. I left because I watched, at close range and over many years, the distance between what the party says and what it does when nobody outside the room is looking blakandblack.com/2026/07/27/w...
Why I’ll Never Vote for the Australian Labor Party – The Lie One Nation Has Never ToldFor all the talk over the past three decades in favour of Indigenous rights and Closing the Gap, the actions of the ALP have borne out its true contempt for First Nations People.blakandblack.com“A party that hides its contempt behind a flag it did not earn the right to fly is, in the end, harder to forgive than one that never claimed the flag at all.” BLAK AND BLACK THE LIE ONE NATION HAS NEVER TOLD blakandblack.com/2026/07/27/w...
“You cannot campaign against a reflex that never announces itself. You can only document it, case by case, year by year.” BLAK AND BLACK THE LIE ONE NATION HAS NEVER TOLD blakandblack.com/2026/07/27/w...
Some disabled workers can legally be paid $3.31 an hour. Here’s how to reform a system built for a different era apple.news/AV8U06ItASy2...
Some disabled workers can legally be paid $3.31 an hour. Here’s how to reform a system built for a different era — The Conversation AUReform needs to be careful. Simply shutting down existing workplaces could leave some disabled workers worse off.apple.news