Five Ways of Regarding Homer

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Are you going to Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey?
No, but I’ll re-read the book.
[With thanks to Guy Davenport, Geography the Imagination (New York: Pantheon, 1991), 333-4.]… Go to Article

All they need is dignity / a chance to be free / let them out of jail  / my people / stop pointing guns at my people.… Go to Article

“Revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past.” ― Fidel Castro

International affairs are not the World Cup where there are rules and despite claims to the contrary the favoured team did not win.… Go to Article

Recently, Australia abstained in the United Nations General Assembly on the annual resolution entitled “Necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States of America against Cuba.”… Go to Article

We should go under the rain. We should wash our eyes, and we should see the world in a different way.… Go to Article

The AUKUS Nuclear Submarine Project is the most expensive government project ever undertaken by an Australian government, an enormously costly project that will seriously impact the Australian economy for decades.  … Go to Article

“Enclosure came and trampled on the grave
Of labour’s rights and left the poor a slave.” – John Clare

The land at Kurilpa Commons in West End was transformed by the Growing Forward community group during Covid in 2020.… Go to Article

… I will do such things –What they are, yet I know not; but they shall be

The terrors of the Earth

-William Shakespeare, King Lear, Act 2, scene 4.… Go to Article

The film allows a one-time glimpse of video materials from the four children’s interrogations. Through the interrogations, the personal story of the children and their friendship is revealed, as well as the story of the refugee camp from which they come and the story of the Palestinian people struggling for independence.… Go to Article

“Albanese’s story has now become an international symbol of social redemption, tenacity and political passion. As a son who grew up in a rented flat…” – Corrieri Bari.… Go to Article

“Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.” Henry David Thoreau in Walden.

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Prime Minister Albanese’s visit to Fiji was officially announced on 3 July 2026. His trip included signing a defence pact with Fiji.… Go to Article

From Australia to Cuba with Love: Day 19. End AUKUS! No U.S. bases in Australia! Free Palestine! Let Cuba Live!

A feisty contingent of activists joined in a protest at the annual lunch by the American Chamber of Commerce at which the Queensland Premier was the invited guest speaker.… Go to Article

Palestine is a thankless cause, one in which if you truly serve, you get nothing back but opprobrium, abuse and ostracism.… Go to Article

Kurilpa Commons was a garden, a frog pond, a memorial tree dedicated to loved ones, a lovely spot on the edge of Maiwar and should have been preserved.… Go to Article

Criminal charges for saying six words should be a newspaper headline — not a court case. The words, in support of Palestinian resistance, have been outlawed by the Queensland government: “From the river t███████████████████ [Redacted under Queensland Government directive (2026).]… Go to Article

Brisbane Magistrate’s Court 26 June 2026

A man who pled insanity on his previous appearance in court when charged with holding a sign with six words on it was the subject of further controversy yesterday .… Go to Article

“Small modular reactors are unlikely to make nuclear power a cheap or widely available source of electricity in the near future.… Go to Article

Yesterday Lachlan Hurse (Australia Cuba Friendship Society) and I rode from the river to the sea to End the blockade of Cuba!… Go to Article

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce. – Marx

Fall of the republicans

Reagan was a dumb but great actor.… Go to Article

To Deborah Terry AC and the University of Queensland,

My name is Ian Curr, I am an alumnus of the University of Queensland, the Education Vice President of the UQ students union in 1976-77 and former staff and NTEU member.… Go to Article

To: Minister for Transport, overseeing the delivery of Cross River Rail,

Dear Brent Mickelberg,

I am seeking information regarding the Albert Street Green Spine and its implications for public assembly and democratic rights both during the construction phase and following the completion of the project.… Go to Article

We sent it down in the Night of Power!
But how can you know what is the Night of Power?
The Night of Power is better than a thousand months,
In it, the angels and the Spirit are sent swarming down
By their Lord’s leave, attending to every command
Peace is that Night, till the break of dawn.… Go to Article

” … across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to the beasts in the jungle, intellects vast, cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us.”… Go to Article

There is something quietly absurd about a cycling jersey becoming a flashpoint for corporate cowardice. Yet that is precisely what happened when an Australian sportswear manufacturer, refused to produce a winter, long sleeved jersey for the Big Ride for Palestine SA — a community cycling group raising awareness for peace in one of the world’s most devastating conflicts.… Go to Article

I first attended the Brisbane Dental Hospital and College on Turbot Street in the city in the early 1970s.   it was an emergency.… Go to Article

Alex Macdonald Memorial Lecture.

Australian Society for the Study of Labour History, Brisbane Branch. 
ETU Offices, 41 Peel street, South Brisbane. … Go to Article

Now more than ever we need to support the Cuban people. With threats of invasion by the United states and a crippling blockade hitting the economy this initiative by the Australian Cuba friendship society is important.… Go to Article

We suffer from an incurable disease: hope. – Darwish.

Ceasefire is (temporary) suspension of hostilities; an agreement made to effect this; a truce – Oxford English Dictionary.… Go to Article

ASIO, the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation, is Australia’s domestic security intelligence agency. It engages in intelligence gathering, analysis and security assessments concerning matters that affect Australia’s security within Australia.… Go to Article