Human Rights Day

[Editorial Note: Please show your support for indigenous Australians  that lost their land under this settler state.]

From Lauren Mellor, Aboriginal Rights Coalition

To help with getting the Human Rights Day [HRD] statement out and endorsed by as broad a selection of organizations and individuals as possible below are the list of endorsements already received.… Go to Article

WorkChoices repealed but no dancing in the street

Union members may be interested to hear that legislation to repeal WorkChoices will be introduced on Tuesday, 25 Nov 2008.

The deputy Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, will introduce ‘Fair Work’ legislation in the Federal parliament to repeal WorkChoices and rewrite the Workplace Relations Act that was introduced in the parliament in 1996 at the beginning of the Howard era.… Go to Article

Infamous Victory, Ben Chifley’s Battle for Coal: a reply

To ABC Television

re Infamous Victory, Ben Chifley’s Battle for Coal

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TV programme ABC1 6/11/08 8.30pm

The ABC and Bob Ellis are obviously intrigued by the story of the 1949 Coal Strike – revisiting it once more with Chifley and the two Ross brothers as the main protagonists – First came, ” The True Believers” and now “Infamous Victory, Ben Chifley’s Battle for Coal” 6/11/08.… Go to Article

No island home

In the evening the dry wind blows from the hills and across the plains
I close my eyes and I’m standing in a boat on the sea a-gain
And I’m holding that long turtle spear and I feel I’m close now
To where it must be and my island home is waiting for me
And my island home my island home my island home is waiting for me

– My Island Home, The Warumpi Band

The Townsville Correctional Centre replaced the old Townsville Prison at Stuart Creek.… Go to Article