How much longer are Australians going to allow their politicians to hide behind the three unwise men in recommending this punitive dumping of people onto the most inhospitable, disease ridden, poverty stricken Pacific Islands.… Go to Article
Month: December 2012
Rain of humour among dark clouds
4.0 out of 5 stars
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This review is from: Dark Clouds (Kindle Edition)
This is the second I have read in the series with reluctant spy Rudi Flynn at its centre.
… Go to Article Urgent alert – unaccompanied children about to be sent offshore
Message from Manus ” I think tomorrow many single boys are coming to Manus island.
If they arrive tomorrow I’ll tell you about it.… Go to Article
Start your own anthology for your community of writers
Available HERE
AUSTRALIAN author Frank Hardy was lampooned as a bit of hick when he said he thought there was no such thing as international literature, just a series of national literature.
… Go to Article How you write a book review
WHAT the world needs now are reviews, book reviews; they’re the only things (apart from fresh water, social justice and quite a bit of other stuff) that there’s just too little of: reviews, book reviews.
… Go to Article Please warn Grandma
Guest Book Review
4.0 out of 5 stars
Iraqi Icicle by Bernie Dowling, 22 Dec 2012
Interesting theatrical, musical and political diversions
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… Go to Article Jagera elder supports Sovereignty
In today’s society there’s far too much value placed on the dollar, our culture is dying at an alarming rate and everyone is looking for a hand-out rather than demanding a hand-up from the Gubba (the foreign invader).… Go to Article
Another warrior lost.
i have been informed that we have lost another warrior from the tent embassy in canberra.
gungalidda elder wadjularbinna nullyarimma has passed on.… Go to Article
The no advantage test
This table can be used through the silly season when the GUTTER PRESS are likely to start running stories of asylum seekers living the lush life in order to drum up hate and bitterness among those so inclined.… Go to Article
LONDON – Julian Assange speaks from balcony of Ecuadoran embassy marking 6 months.
Julian Assange marked 6 months circled by British police in the Ecuadoran embassy by speaking from the balcony of the building last night (Dec 20th.)… Go to Article
Gun Violence, Massacres, and “Other Developed Countries”
by David Rovics
One evening in the spring of 1993 I took a bus across San Francisco, leaving the troubled, largely impoverished neighborhood of the Western Addition, populated mostly by the descendents of African slaves, in which I lived (representing, I suppose, the artistic hippie beginnings of the gentrification process which has since pushed most of San Francisco’s Black population across the bay).… Go to Article
Festive Fun
A shout-out from my favourite witch
4.0 out of 5 stars
Fun book for the person who loves journalism!
Bookish Witch “Heather” (Kentucky)
This review is from: 7 Shouts (My Shout) (Kindle Edition)
Bernie Dowling has compiled years of journalistic endeavors into one compendium, along with pictures (some of them quite funny), and has thus given readers “7 Shouts”.
… Go to Article Coco Wharton in defence of sovereignty
[Editor’s note: This speech by Coco Wharton given at the sovereign tent embassy in Musgrave park on 12 Dec 2012 was broadcast on PShift [Fridays at noon on 4ZZZ fm102.1 – Many thanks to KC for the transcription.]… Go to Article
PShift: Anarchist Summer School – what, where and when?
This discussion with organisers of the Brisbane Anarchist Summer School (BASS) was broadcast on the Paradigm Shift [Fridays at noon on 4ZZZ fm 102.1] on 21 Dec 2012.… Go to Article
Aussie thriller sings and zings
Brother reviews brother. Oh, Brother!
4.0 out of 5 stars
THIS novel is an epic detective story of more than 400 pages.
… Go to Article “Three weeks people, three weeks!” — one year on from Occupy Brisbane
[Editor’s Note: It is timely to remember our struggle at occupy of one year’s past – especially since people are trying so hard to keep the sacred fire alight in Musgrave Park.… Go to Article
Police arrest Jagera traditional owner defending the sacred fire
"This is a country very concerned about making things
seem to happen without actually doing anything.
They like to talk about progress,
but that comes at a cost,
and the cost is on us"
— Kevin Vieritz at first Sovereignty & Land Rights
Conference in Brisbane in November 2012
On 18 Dec 2012 police arrested Jagera (Yugara/Yugarapul) traditional owner on his own land for lighting the sacred fire in Musgrave Park.… Go to Article
Community of Authors Shine
THIS anthology follows on from the critically acclaimed debut volume The Writing on the Wall.
Writers from the Moreton Bay Region of Australia present 24 short stories, each one illustrated by an accomplished artist in Can you believe it…
This is the middle volume of a three-year Arts Alliance Pine Rivers project to showcase the writing and artistic talents of a local community.
… Go to Article Iraqi Icicle excerpt
The comic detective novel Iraqi Icicle is being released at Pine Rivers Art Gallery Queensland Australia on December 20 in a multi-art event as part of the world-wide A Big Project.
… Go to Article Vision gets even better
Laughs amid the turmoil
Book Review by Bernie Dowling
Weimar Vibesis a most humorous novel on a very serious subject.
Anti-hero Rudi Flynn is a former tabloid journalist, reformed cocaine abuser and practising alcoholic.… Go to Article
The 17 Group – Alienation
The June meeting of the 17 Group will take place on Wednesday the 6th of June at 7 pm in unit 6 at number 20 Drury St, West End and will be addressed by the writer Lesley Synge, who will read/perform 17 poems influenced by radicalism, the first being a meditation on Marx’s Theory of Alienation inspired by the discovery of a bundle of workers’ ‘Sick notes’ at an abandoned coal mine in Central Qld.… Go to Article
PShift: the story of coal and land rights
“Whose land is this land is it for you and me who knows, who knows this land better than you and me.… Go to Article
Save the Sacred Fire in Musgrave Park!
"That relationship between (us) and that tree and that water is what gives us our respect, the law has been given us by the spirit...… Go to Article
Byron Council’s Double Standards
[Editor’s note: This is a letter sent by one of our readers to the Byron bay newspaper ‘The Echo’]
Dear Editor (of the Echo),
During the 2011 Writers’ Festival I parked my Free Palestine trailer on a safe patch of grass on the corner of Bayshore Drive and Sunrise Boulevard so that Festival attendees could read its billboard messages.… Go to Article
Update from the Brisbane Aboriginal Sovereign Embassy
Update from the Brisbane Aboriginal Sovereign Embassy
The Embassy remains in Musgrave Park and the Sacred Fire continues to burn strong.… Go to Article
Don’t Buy Israeli Apartheid for Christmas
Don’t Buy Israeli Apartheid for Christmas
PROTEST THE PRESENCE OF ISRAELI COSMETIC PRODUCTS MADE FROM STOLEN PALESTINIAN RESOURCES IN AUSTRALIAN SHOPPING CENTRES
Join this protest as part of a National Week of Action around Australia to highlight the plight of the Palestinians under illegal Israeli occupation and help distribute information about the campaign to boycott Israeli cosmetic products.… Go to Article
PShift: The Story of Coal – beauty and the beast
Anna came to this country and now she is left alone
Her man had so much sickness he left some in their home
It was just for a while until they got on their feet
but the mine was a life sentence
It was them they sentenced me
—Phil Monsour "Wittonoom"
Interviews with Clive Palmer & Drew Hutton
[Editor’s note: This show was broadcast on 4ZZZ fm 102.1 on 7 Dec 2012.… Go to Article
Return to Idinthakarai
Publisher’s Note: Recently (2012) David Bradbury and Treena Lenthall visited a village in Southern India where the people are being persecuted for their nonviolent resistance to nuclear power plants.… Go to Article