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Google threatens to scrap all search in Australia if the Parliament doesn’t do what it wants. Talk about big corporations bullying democracy – it’s always their way or the highway. Australians deserve laws that protect the community from the monopoly … Continue reading →

‘Let everything happen to you.Beauty and terror.Just keep goingNo feeling is final.’– Rilke. Refugees are now being released from detention from hotels and Melbourne Immigration Detention Centre but not into community detention. Sources say that some people who came from … Continue reading →

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After a successful season for the Big Ride for Palestine in 2020 some riders are thinking of entering the 2021 Tour de Brisbane. From 17 Jan 2021 till the finale of ‘Tour de Brisbane‘ on Sunday 11 April 2021, I … Continue reading →

We post this plea by a Palestinian father for justice for his son, the former World Vision-Australia director for the West Bank and Gaza. We posted this story first in Oct 2020 with a plea that World Vision would do … Continue reading →

Federal and NT Governments compromise NT health with military training exercises Vulnerable populations in Darwin exposed to COVID-19 risks Military exercises given higher priority than the health of Territorians Two members of a foreign military group are housed in an … Continue reading →

In my lifetime Cuba was only a threat to the United States during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 when there was a Soviet military build up on the island. So why does the Trump administration want to call Cuba … Continue reading →

Here’s an article from a medical perspective that tries to answer this question. Unfortunately the paper doesn’t come to any solid conclusion … it does pose a crucial question that many have been wondering about for some time but then … Continue reading →

“If I can’t hope, nothing’s ever gonna change“ – Hope by the Cable Ties “Coronavirus brings out the worst (and best) in us” – TU P Here are two articles Can you spread Covid-19 if you get the vaccine? and … Continue reading →

“I believe that Marcuse’s ideas can be as valuable today as they were fifty years ago.”––Angela Davis. When I was at University in the 1970s trying to overthrow the state government, there were radical groups that followed the writings of … Continue reading →

Have you ever found yourself surrounded by masked rioters being chased by flag-waving patriots and thought, I’ve seen this movie before? – David Rovics (folk singer born in New York). Just prior to the inauguration of Democrat ‘sleepy’ Joe Biden … Continue reading →

The Grapes of Wrath (1940) follows Okies moving into California where they are attacked for taking local jobs but strike for half-way decent wages at fruit -picking. Nomadland is not wrath but loss. Its story lines trail around Fern, played … Continue reading →

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Early in 2021 three films have emerged arguing for a stop to logging native forests in WA, Tasmania and more generally a stop to environmental vandalism across Australia. The films are: Cry of the Forests – a Western Australia Story, … Continue reading →

“Post-MLK-assas[s]ination race riots reduced Democratic vote share in surrounding counties by 2%, which was enough to tip the 1968 election to Nixon. Non-violent protests increase Dem vote, mainly by encouraging warm elite discourse and media coverage” – David Shor According … Continue reading →

Major stories from Paradigm Shift in 2020 – Refugees, Aboriginal farming practices, Assange, & cuts at Qld College of Art. Intro by Ian, Andy on Refugees and Aboriginal land use, Ian on the extradition of Julian Assange, Bec Mac on … Continue reading →

Great night thanks to Sarah Calderwood, Paul Brandon and Jumping Fences (Sue Monk, Lachlan Hurse, James Harper and Ross Gwyther) … hopefully we can return to full Foco Nuevo concerts again soon. Kurilpa Hall is open for lunch on Thursdays … Continue reading →

The foreign investment review board recently released data on the ownership of agricultural land in Australia. Some are shocked by the amount of land owned or leased by interests in China. However we need to look behind the facts to … Continue reading →