When the Fraser Island Defenders Organisation (FIDO) was formed in 1971, I was working on Fraser Island (K’gari) as a yardman at the Orchid Beach Resort.… Go to Article

Today I completed the Brisbane to Gold Coast bike ride with around 3,500 other riders.

I finished the ride in 3 hours and 13 minutes, averaging 31 kilometres an hour, with around 900 metres of climbing over the course of the ride.… Go to Article

A big thank you to ICRR in Read Street, Woolloongabba, for putting on the film Ningla A-Na La — Hungry for Our Land.… Go to Article

The genocide in Palestine grinds on. Palestinians are killed daily. The siege continues. The theft of Palestinian land accelerates.

In the occupied West Bank, Israeli soldiers and settlers terrorise Palestinians and seize their land with impunity.… Go to Article

In this coverage of the Tour de Samoa, we include some commentary on the various stages of the race by a local bike rider, Lachlan Hurse.… Go to Article

Hard Hat* article by Bec Barrigos, QTU rank and file and co-convenor of QLD Teachers’ Fightback

Union representation for teachers, nurses and others on the board of Workplace Health and Safety have been unceremoniously stripped by the Crisafulli government.… Go to Article

Two important actions for our readers!

1. Sign & share the e-petition to qld parliament:

https://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/Work-of-the-Assembly/Petitions/petition-details/4656-26

This petition was created by Justice for Palestine Magan-djin (JFP) and is sponsored by Greens members for Maiwar, Michael Berkman.… Go to Article

‘Looking with both eyes‘ – Persian proverb meaning to look behind the facts.

Appeal court ignores Israel’s genocide in assault case

6 May 2024 — Labor Day function at the RNA Showgrounds — last words

Yesterday’s man, former premier of Queensland, Steven Miles, made a speech at the 2024 May Day celebrations ignoring the fact that assembled unionists had turned their backs on him because of his government’s complicity in the genocide in Gaza.… Go to Article

According to the series, Say Nothing, based on a book by Patrick Radden Keefe, Gerry Adams is a liar, a traitor, and a murderer.… Go to Article

F-35s are used in bombardment campaigns across Gaza, Lebanon, Iran and Yemen that have killed tens of thousands of civilians, including children, sheltering in schools, hospitals, and refugee camps.… Go to Article

The propagandists whose writings are in evidence in this case and terrorists who respond to their call (like the offenders now before the Court cannot  sensibly be regarded as mere anti-social deviants.… Go to Article

“The fish start swimming in a circle, they go round and round, others from the school join in, males and females.… Go to Article

Every time there is a violent incident or alleged terror event, a resistance movement is blamed. Sometimes those incidents are ordinary criminal acts.… Go to Article

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

After 14,700 kilometres, we have finally made it to Havana.… Go to Article

“We’ll have thee, as our rare monsters are,
painted on a pole,
and under it here
may you see the tyrant.”… Go to Article

July is International Zine Month (alongside Disability Pride Month), so people celebrated it by attending Mr Icarus’s zine making workshop and they raised funds for Justice for Palestine Magandjin’s Legal Defence Fund.… Go to Article

For the past three years, the Queensland Government has been complicit in the genocide in Gaza and has done everything it could to obstruct justice for the Palestinian people, even going so far as to accuse protest organisers of antisemitism.… Go to Article

Down our street, downhill into an adjoining suburb, people are not so neuter – not it people. They march in processions which shout No!… Go to Article

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