Review: We Built this Country
We Built This Country – Builders’ Labourers and their Unions,
by Humphrey McQueen, Ginninderra Press, Port Adelaide, 2011, 364pp, $30.00
Review by Howard Guille
This is the second book of Humphrey McQueen’s research into builders’ labourers and their unions.… Go to Article
Hi to all who may be about to come to Drew’s talk to the 17 Group on the 1st of February.… Go to Article
The Australian constitution
The constitution is both a source and a limitation of power. It establishes Federal and State legislatures and limits each government to stay in its own yard.… Go to Article
ONE reader will win an exclusive Bent Banana Books T-Shirt valued at $25 in February. Simply buy a copy of 5 Strong Bricks in the Wall during February and write a review to win.… Go to Article
“Decolonisation, once viewed as the formal process of handing over the instruments of government, is now recognised as a long-term process involving the bureaucratic, cultural, linguistic and psychological divesting of colonial power” — linda tuhiwai-smith
Invasion Day speeches, Brisbane 2012
There was a strong call not to cede sovereign indigenous rights by an aboriginal woman at parliament house, Brisbane Invasion day 2012.… Go to Article
Welcome to 2012! We’d like to wish you all a very Happy New Year, and look forward to seeing you at Foco Nuevo during the year.… Go to Article
Election
Qld State elections just announced for 24 March 2012 — ALP to lose government, Bligh and Campbell Newman to tear each other apart, perhaps neither to win a seat — Bob Katter party to be beneficiary of the failure of Labor and Nationals.… Go to Article
The first meeting of the 17 Group for the year 2012 will be held in unit 6 at 20 Drury St, West End on Wednesday the 1st of February at 7pm.… Go to Article
Our guest blogger is musician, scriptwriter and story author Maurice Hardy. Maurice explains the genesis of his contribution to the Arts Alliance anthology Can you believe it… Take it away Maurice, Cheers, Bernie
I love creating fictional characters, then weaving a story around them.… Go to Article
Miranda has been sitting in the tree tops for the past month, bring the forest to the world. Find out more about what’s been happening and how you can help in this campaign update.… Go to Article
Well Logan was wild
We filled him with bile
He’d seen the Catholic dodge
Plain suicide
We’d ascended his powers
But not that of the King’s
Or the judge down the river’s
But we was happy to swing
We were marched through the scrub
Off to Brisbane for trial
Chained into a whaler
Set off at low tide
With 6 nervous marines
And 6 Enfield rifles
The arse end of the world
And indifferent blue sky
‘Sixteen Straws’ by The Drones
The Swing Riots: Paradigm Shift — 12 noon Fri 20 January 2012 — 4ZZZ FM 102.1
Barbara Hart, spoke this week on the Swing Rioters’
Here are some questions that were discussed on Friday’s subject on the Swing riots.… Go to Article
Editor’s Note: I have included the full article “The shocking truth about the crackdown on Occupy” by Naomi Wolf below.… Go to Article
A link to an interesting article in The Nation by Naomi Klein as well as other Climate Change News
Thanks Trevor
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I only want to add a small footnote to the obituary of crime writer Reginald Hill, whose passing is covered adequately elsewhere http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/jan/13/reginald-hill?intcmp=239… Go to Article
So as you’ve probably heard there’s a racist music festival called the Hammered music festival being organised in Brisbane.
A group is trying organise against it.… Go to Article
The Internet can be a weird place.
I came across a heart-felt plea from someone who said they had learned 7 Shouts and could only use two.… Go to Article
Hon Paul Raymond Henderson MLA
Dear Chief Minister
Re The death in protective custody in Alice Springs of Terrance Daniel Briscoe, 5/1/2012
It was not an easy death for Terrance Daniel Briscoe, aged 28, early this morning Thursday 5th January 2012 in protective custody at the Alice Springs police lockup.… Go to Article
We are a long way from our out full list of 75 books by women that every man must read. With our latest inclusion of Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt we are only up to 12.… Go to Article
WE NEED YOUR HELP.
We urgently need you to write in support of the SBS series “The Promise”
I am sure that most of you watched the SBS series “The Promise” shown just before Christmas and found it a refreshing change to see the Palestinian predicament given fair treatment in this political thriller.… Go to Article
Editor’s Note: I re-publish this article by Jeremy Salt here with thanks to Ray for finding it. I would add only a few points to the article.… Go to Article
