My earliest encounter with the Iliad occurred in the cluttered study of my uncle’s home, among overflowing bookshelves that bore the imprint of a life spent in relentless intellectual curiosity. My uncle, a survivor of the Holocaust and a man whose life… blakandblack.com/2026/01/07/h...

Sounds very sus.

Tomorrow’s BnB post about an unexpected package I received from my uncle, posted from Paris in Nov. It contained his tweed overcoat—he had worn since the late 1950s—his constant hat, and walking cane his habitual attire. Tucked within that bundle: his well-thumbed copy of the Iliad - the post point

An Australian Federal Police “national surveillance team” set up under the Commonwealth High Risk Terrorist Offender regime was quietly disbanded because of funding shortfalls just weeks before the deadly Bondi attack. apple.news/AdYEKZfHjSLS...

Great and Glorious GD, Glow at the heart of every candle, Gift behind evergreen fronds, Gently weaving wonder – GD! No face, no form, No word can frame You; You are the Breath between syllables, The silence after laughter – GD. blakandblack.com/2026/01/06/c...

This "Ba ya me" the Dreamtime entity, appears to have 60,000 years of street cred and some! A far more believable and realistic concept than the 6000 year old Abrahamic gobbledygook which pervades the modern marketplace of religions! #Auspol

This is the second of my Australia Day 2026 Indigenous spirituality posts. Baiame (also recorded as Biame, Baayami, Baayama, Byamee) occupies a central place in the cosmologies of many peoples of southeastern Australia… blakandblack.com/2026/01/06/b...

It’s almost Australia Day again, I’m not interested in engaging in divisive Australia Day v Invasion Day debate. Instead I’m going to delve into Indigenous spirituality. Indigenous spirituality, though different from settler spirituality, is no less valid blakandblack.com/2026/01/05/s...

I’ve written for decades about situations where the victim becomes the criminal and the criminal becomes the victim … no one listened… Welcome to 2026 … the role reversal on steroids … the canary has been dead in the mine for a long time, people have simply chosen to ignore its rotting carcass…

I could almost hear Pete Seeger singing that version. Thank you.

All of the worlds seemingly intractable problems have the genesis is the same fundamental human flaw… Pleased to meet you, hope you guessed my name— But what’s confusing you is just the nature of my game. blakandblack.com/2026/01/04/s...

I was undecided whether to call this where have all the Palestinians gone? Or where have all our consciences gone? - I decided to go with *Palestinians* Where have all the Palestinians gone, long time passing? Where have all the Palestinians gone, long time ago? blakandblack.com/2026/01/03/w...

Venezuela’s capital was rocked by a series of explosions as planes and helicopters flew over the city, with the government saying they were an act of aggression by the U.S. apple.news/A5LYXYjR8Qsu...

I was undecided whether to call this where have all the Palestinians gone? Or where have all our consciences gone? - I decided to go with *Palestinians* Where have all the Palestinians gone, long time passing? Where have all the Palestinians gone, long time ago? blakandblack.com/2026/01/03/w...

You’ve been our wit since days of yore, When Sydney hummed with hopes galore. The beers we spilled, the nights we cheered, The wildest tales we engineered – And women, laughter on their lips, Who truly sent us on a trip. blakandblack.com/2025/12/31/o...

Wow. Nice piece.

The passages in Herodotus that use the term Palaistinê are few but consequential. They provide one of the earliest extant Greek testimonies to a geographical designation that would have an extraordinary afterlife in classical & later political vocabularies blakandblack.com/2025/12/31/i...

Plato’s Timaeus, a fictional Egyptian priest rebukes the Solon for his people’s historical myopia. His rebuke remains relevant. Humanity’s tendency to elevate single myths arises from converging forces: institutional power, cognitive simplicity blakandblack.com/2025/12/30/t...

Tomorrow’s BnB post is based on Plato’s Timaeus. The point is strikingly simple & unsettling—civilisations are repeatedly reshaped by cataclysms whose vestiges survive only as fragmented legends. From his vantage, the Greeks remember one flood and thereby mistake the exceptional for the definitive.

How can stories of wonder co-exist with the revelation that people are capable of organised cruelty? Can the moral lessons of folktales guide us through modern political nightmares, or are we doomed to repeat brutality disguised in different rhetoric? blakandblack.com/2025/12/29/t...

How can stories of wonder co-exist with the revelation that people are capable of organised cruelty? Can the moral lessons of folktales guide us through modern political nightmares, or are we doomed to repeat brutality disguised in different rhetoric? blakandblack.com/2025/12/29/t...

The moment that produced Nostra Aetate was one of shock, moral reckoning & theological self-questioning. Mid C20th carried the trauma of the Holocaust into the conscience of the world & rendered previous of Christian-Jewish relations morally indefensible blakandblack.com/2025/12/28/n...

Must be some kind of coincidence.

Bill Would Allow Rubio to Strip US Citizens’ Passports Over Political Speech Legislation would allow him to strip anyone’s US passport with NO legal due process.

John Howard wasn’t a leaders hemorrhorid … #justsaying

Tomorrow’s BnB post explores Vatican II's "Nostra Aetate" (1965): A pivotal declaration on the Church's relations with non-Christian religions. Highlights shared human dignity, respect for Hinduism/Buddhism, esteem for Muslims, spiritual ties to Judaism, and condemns anti-Semitism & discrimination.

They remake Dracula movies every few years or so. Howard's crypt has a revolving door, so they can raise him at will.

Howard’s tenure is remembered for its dark undercurrents: systemic racism, political opportunism, and a willingness to exploit societal divisions for electoral gain - the Liberals have rolled him out to exploit social divisions over the Bondi shooting blakandblack.com/2025/12/27/j...

Chrismukkah, the joyful portmanteau blending Christmas and Hanukkah, represents a harmonious fusion of traditions in an increasingly interconnected world. It symbolises the spirit of inclusivity and shared festivity during the holiday season. blakandblack.com/2025/12/26/t...

One Nation it’s all about the meme The flattened interpretation of R v Murrell I encountered online – claiming it a magnanimous act of equality – illustrates how partial readings of legal history can be marshalled to sanitise & justify ongoing injustice blakandblack.com/2025/12/24/e...

That pattern not merely an impression; it was an emblem. Here I was, an Indigenous person with Jewish roots, put before a system almost entirely staffed by the descendants of settlers. The prosecutor even sought an order that, when convicted, my website be taken down blakandblack.com/2025/12/25/h...

Christmas Greetings from the Avaricious Gull Greetings, dear voters! I'm the avaricious gull, With a right wing and a left wing—two sides, but just one skull. I circle your cities and caw above the mall, Feathers preened by lobbyists’ hands, While crumbs trickle down—if anything at all.

The empire 😞 There’s no excuse not to know and understand these things if you bother to look. Or unless you don’t want to.

One Nation it’s all about the meme The flattened interpretation of R v Murrell I encountered online – claiming it a magnanimous act of equality – illustrates how partial readings of legal history can be marshalled to sanitise & justify ongoing injustice blakandblack.com/2025/12/24/e...

One of my favourite books … *Famous Bible Illidtrations* by Gustav Dore … 1946 … printed in that country that shall not be named … Palestine…

Tomorrow’s BlakandBlack BnB post examines the 1836 decision R v Murrell. An anonymous X troll—has lifted selective facts and recontextualised them to suit contemporary political narratives. My three articles on BlakandBlack, my thesis, and the long-form piece “Superfluous People” destroys the troll.

Hypocrisy writ large. Just how much integrating did her ancestors do with the Aboriginal people who were the dominant culture for millenia before her forebearers arrived?

Today’s post is about a neighbour, a Holocaust survivor, who made a lasting impression on me. He wouldn’t let cruelty crush his spirit. He’d seen the worst humans can do, yet remained convinced that beauty matters. He introduced me to literature & art… blakandblack.com/2025/12/23/r...

Tomorrow’s BnB is a change of pace — Gounod’s Faust. This afternoon I spun the 1951 Columbia Met set: not just music but a corridor to memory. The LP belonged to my childhood neighbour, a Holocaust survivor who perched me on the sofa arm and, with quiet urgency, taught me that beauty matters. 🎶💿🕯️

Her way of life. The word "our" was definitely used by accident. Her way of life involves the 'pure white' TV shows & virtually no other people from 'coloured' countries represented on the streets 😒 Probably missing the old slavery days too.

Martin Place at about 11am today … clearly Sydney City Council hasn’t received the memo that it’s illegal to say #MerryChristmas and/or display Christmas themed items… *RIGHT WING WANKERS CREATE IMAGINED REALITIES WHERE YOU'RE PERSECUTED IN SCENARIOS YOU YOURSELF INVENTED…

If the Ginger Whinger is capable, it would be grand, if she could define exactly what she means by “our way of life”?

Reflecting on living at the Aboriginal Tent Embassy and the legacy of Aunty Isobel Coe, it’s clear that reconciliation thrives on balanced, and respectful dialogue. By rejecting extremes, we can bridge divides. For Indigenous, Muslim, and all Australians. blakandblack.com/2025/12/22/r...

Tomorrow’s BnB post is about my cousin Aunty Isobel Coe who was with the Aboriginal Tent Embassy from the day it was established until the day she left us. The post is a reflection on dialogue, cultural pride and reconciliation. Aunty Isobel’s legacy is more important today than ever before.

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... “We need to examine exactly the way that systems work. We need to look back at what happened in 2019 when this person was looked at, the assessment that was made,” he said.

A post on living your truth… If the Berrigans were, in some sense, “holy outlaws,” it was because they reimagined the priestly vocation as necessarily public, and because they insisted that religious truth must be lived out, even at the cost of freedom. blakandblack.com/2025/12/21/t...

This post from July 24 has lingered on about 250 engagements … overnight it jumped to 648. Allegations of inappropriate interference have surfaced periodically, accusing Israel and its lobby organisations of employing aggressive lobbying tactics. blakandblack.com/2025/07/24/i...

Simple, yet vast beyond measure, Three fires have lit my path, Three hungers, more urgent than hunger, More vital than the very breath I draw. blakandblack.com/2025/12/20/t...

"There will be a time for politics; now is the time to mourn". Please read this article.