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Is this report by the Qld Productivity Commission just another example of institutional racism? Why the lack of aboriginal workers in the prison system not addressed in the QPC report? Continue reading →

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Systemic racism practiced by Queensland Health. Continue reading →

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Paradigm Shift 4zzz fm 102.1 Friday, June 5, 2020 about Policing aboriginal people in Australia and aboriginal deaths in custody. This week we look at policing of aboriginal people in Australia, especially the ongoing issue of aboriginal deaths in police … Continue reading →

The democratic rights struggle in the late 1970s won back rights to assemble, march and organise. There are posters circulating on social media regarding the Blak Lives Matter rally and march in Brisbane’s King George Square this Saturday. The poster (pictured below) appears to refer to laws in NSW. Different laws apply in Queensland. Continue reading →

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If we are to survive, let alone feel at home, we must begin to understand our country. If we succeed, one day we might become Australian. – Bill Gammage ECORADIO 4ZZZ fm 102.1 Tuesdays at Noon Eco Radio explores some … Continue reading →

The Algiers Motel incident occurred in Detroit, Michigan, United States, throughout the night of July 25–26, 1967. On that warm, humid night, the establishment was hosting a party for several veterans, including two servicemen recently returned from the Vietnam War, and the bar’s … Continue reading →

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“It’s my face man I didn’t do nothing serious man please please please I can’t breathe please man please somebody please man I can’t breathe I can’t breathe please (inaudible) …. I cannot breathe I cannot breathe they gon’ kill … Continue reading →

“… the radical movement on (UQ) campus was more continuous and more serious both in theory and in practice than in anywhere else in Australia … what will turn out in the lens of history to be the most interesting … Continue reading →

“There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party … and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat. ” – Gore Vidal. With unemployment over 20 million, the pandemic about to claim 100,000 lives and a country … Continue reading →

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Jorgen Leth’s film focuses on the 1976 Paris-Roubaix single day bike race over the cobbled farm tracks of northern France, normally reserved for cattle. Leth covers the race with twenty cameras and a helicopter and captures the drama as some of the sport’s greats, including Merckx, De Vlaeminck, Maertens and Moser, battle it out through the dirt and dust clouds. Continue reading →

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Farad a civil engineer who had escaped from Iran was told when he arrived on Christmas island 7 years ago that he would never be settled in Australia. He was exiled to Manus Island. After going through a lot of hardship Farad was brought to Brisbane International Transit Accomodation at Pinkenba (BITA) last April. He needed medical attention after spending 6 years on Manus Island. He was transferred there forcefully from Christmas Island in August 2013. Continue reading →

WBT posts this epitaph for Jack Mundey by the author of Frameworks of Flesh – Builders’ Labourers Battle for Health and Safety, Humphrey McQueen. Much was made about political differences between Jack Mundey (NSW BLF) and Norm Gallagher (Victorian BLF). I … Continue reading →

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Canadian journalist and author, Naomi Klein, has put her finger on it. She says in her essay ‘Screen New Deal‘ that: “All of this is moving very fast. The Australian government has contracted with Amazon to store the data for … Continue reading →

Jack Mundey grew up amid amid the rainforests of North Queensland. In 1973 Jack Mundey coined the term ‘Green Ban’ to describe the withdrawal of Labour for social and environmental reasons. So by 1974 the NSW Building Labourers Federation (BLF) … Continue reading →