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WikiLeaks, a free press publishing and media organisation, has revealed human rights abuses, war crimes and corruption in governments across the world. Yet the US Administration wants to close WikiLeaks down and prosecute its founder Julian Assange. International financial services … Continue reading
By Humphrey McQueen Canberra 1911-16 Canberra Historical Journal, New Series, 67, December 2011, pp. 17-24. For the Federal Area to become a Federal Capital on the ground as well as in law, hundreds of navvies had to construct before tradesmen … Continue reading
by Humphrey McQueen “I cannot understand this language. I cannot make it out. This language, which is half slang, I cannot understand at all.” Justice Higgins, 1913, ABLF Award Transcript. “banjo” – a navvy wrapped his pick and shovel in … Continue reading
The Bridging Visa BV policy WAS ANNOUNCED ON 25th NOVEMBER Aim to release 100 people per month from long term detention – those most vulnerable and over two years in detention as a priority. Status so far – TEN WEEKS … Continue reading
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The 1912 Brisbane General Strike began when members of the Australian Tramway Employees Association were dismissed when they wore union badges to work on 18 January 1912. Photo shows special constables corner of Melbourne and Stanley Streets, South Brisbane. … Continue reading
Green Left Weekly Public Forum:
THE TRUTH ABOUT THE ABORIGINAL
TENT EMBASSY
Speaker: Sam Watson,
Prominent Murri leader and Socialist Alliance member, who was an early activist at the Aboriginal Tent Embassy
in Canberra in 1972, and attended the Embassy 40th anniversary commemoration, Jan 26-28. Sam will give an
eyewitness account of the protests on Invasion Day in Canberra, refuting the racist media furore launched against
the Aboriginal community, and explain the real issues addressed at the Embassy anniversary.
TUES FEB 7, 7pm
Brisbane Activist Centre, 74B Wickham St, Fortitude Valley.
Meal available from 6.30pm.
Pho: 3831 2644/0423 741 734 for more info.
www.greenleft.org.au.
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Review: We Built this Country We Built This Country – Builders’ Labourers and their Unions, by Humphrey McQueen, Ginninderra Press, Port Adelaide, 2011, 364pp, $30.00 Review by Howard Guille This is the second book of Humphrey McQueen’s research into builders’ … Continue reading
Hi to all who may be about to come to Drew’s talk to the 17 Group on the 1st of February. Here is a text by Drew that might spark some thoughts with which to prepare for the discussion that … Continue reading
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The Australian constitution The constitution is both a source and a limitation of power. It establishes Federal and State legislatures and limits each government to stay in its own yard. It establishes the High Court to decide disputes between bickering … Continue reading
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“Decolonisation, once viewed as the formal process of handing over the instruments of government, is now recognised as a long-term process involving the bureaucratic , cultural, linguistic and psychological divesting of colonial power” — linda tuhiwai-smith Invasion Day speeches, Brisbane … Continue reading
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