Month October 2006

Black deaths in custody reveal Australian racism

Brisbane:The recent report handed down by the Queensland deputy coroner, Christine Clements, found that Palm Islander, Mulrinji, not only died in police custody on November 19 2004, but also that he died at the hands of the arresting officer. The…

“Enlarging the problem”

War secretary Donald Rumsfeld is fond of a saying: “If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it.” The theory is not new to U.S. military strategy. It was first voiced by former president Dwight D. Eisenhower in the 1950s. This…