[When] Friday, June 7, 2013
[Time] 8:00pm
[Place] Kurilpa Hall, West End
The monthly informal concert hosted by Jumping Fences. Guest artists for this month are Robin Etter-Cleave & Brian Brett, and Clare Quinn.… Go to Article
Month: May 2013
17 Group postponed
Though the 17 Group is a secular group with no affiliation to any religious group, it is of course friendly to the born-again Community of Queensland Originists.… Go to Article
Racing authority takes away Gai pocket money
Guilty trainer Gai Waterhouse is fined by $5500
Gai despite a broken Jack of Hearts
“Fail to report to the stewards any condition or occurrence that may affect the running of a horse in a race” sounds a serious offence.
… Go to Article LADY MADONNA MEETS THE MARTIANS
Australian crime-solver Steele Hill takes a break from murder and perfidy to investigate the sighting of Martians by his friend Felicity.
… Go to Article Gaza – Byron Friends of Palestine
Event: Mullumbimby-Brunswick Heads Paddle Event
Date & Time: Sunday, 26 May, 0730-1600
Participant: Byron Friends of Palestine
Contact: Gareth Smith (Tel: 6680 7360, 0422298165)
On 26 May, Byron Friends of Palestine will symbolically deliver medical equipment and water purification units on its Gaza Aid Flotilla kayak, highlighting the international Gaza Ark relief initiative which aims to draw worldwide attention to the illegal* Israeli blockade and to export Gazan goods on its own boat.
… Go to ArticleSpeaker from Gaza tonight
6:15 at the QCU, 16 Peel St, South Brisbane
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Dr. Mona El-Farra, Director of Gaza Projects, is a physician by training and a human rights and women’s rights activist by practice in the occupied Gaza Strip. |
news from ray jackson – indigenous social justice
time again to join the e-world.
for some 16 days of a crashed white-mans-magic box (and many many thanks to jp for his assistance in bringing it back to life), including an 8 day stop in hospital to work on the diabetic ulcers on my left foot.… Go to Article
The last of the Semites
Al Jazeera has removed this article from its website. Al Abunimah reports: “Massad told The Electronic Intifada that he had ‘received confirmation’ from his editor at Al Jazeera English that ‘management pulled the article.’… Go to Article
On the 65th Anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba
The Nakba: Ethnic cleansing and displacement of the population
Nakba in literary terms means a natural catastrophe such as an earthquake, volcano, or hurricane.… Go to Article
Mulivaikal Remembrance Day
This event marks the fourth anniversary of the extremely violent end of the Sri Lankan civil war, which featured many war crimes, resulting in massive suffering for civilians of all sides, but most particularly for the Tamils, who were targeted in their thousands by the victorious Sri Lankan Army.… Go to Article
Vale Ross Watson
Ross Watson – a leader of the 1982 Commonwealth Games protests and founder of the Murri school and of Murri radio (fm 98.9) in Brisbane – died this week.… Go to Article
Refugee Excision Bill in Senate today or tomorrow
Dear all
The Government’s excision bill is on the Senate schedule for today (14 May 2013), though it probably won’t actually come on until tomorrow.… Go to Article
No big finish but beaut racehorse inquiry
Singo, Waterhouse charged but Johns, Hayson, Robinson evidence comes to nought
Mamas, don’t let your babies grow up to be lawyers
Make ’em be trainers and bookies and such
Chris Murphy
RACEHORSE owner John Singleton copped a guilty plea but Gai Waterhouse is protesting her innocence.
… Go to Article Courting again
Murphy, Robinson add spice to Waterhouse/Singleton stoush
ACERBIC lawyer Chris Murphy highlighted today’s racing stewards inquiry as a defamation-free zone where trainer Gai Waterhouse described his client Alan Robinson as “trumped up little jockey”.
… Go to Article Mothers
Even when Alzheimer’s had stolen her ability to know who we were, my mother could still surprise and delight when those pesky brain messages got it right.… Go to Article
Foco: Student Worker Alliance in Brisbane in the late 1960s
This is a talk given by Peter Cross at a meeting of the 17 Group on 7 May 2013 about the Secretary of the Trades and labour Council, Alexander Macdonald’s role was in building links between the Trades Hall and the student movement.… Go to Article
This Saturday: Revolutionary Action launch BBQ
Revolutionary Action launch BBQ
Saturday May 11, 12 noon
Orleigh Park
near the CityCat stop
(look for the red balloons!)
all welcome
Phone: 0400 720 757, 0401 586 923
Respect is the word
Gai Waterhouse erupts in extraordinary outburst against John Singleton in defence of her son Tom
We are family
AT the Sydney racing inquiry trainer Gai Waterhouse berated owner John Singleton for intemperate language to threaten her career and that of her bookmaker son, Tom.
… Go to Article Building Workers celebrate May Day in May!
“We all got it wrong!” my friend told me over the phone after he saw the 6 o’clock news on TV.… Go to Article
Entertaining racing inquiry wins
Singo Waterhouses slug it out and they should let us watch on TV
It’s a phar lap to the end of this tail
OWNER John Singleton was drunk.
Popular Crime in publishing
Penguin Lulu and others shake down the desperate author
Guest post from David Gaughran
… Go to Article Always Gai and often chatty but Mum’s the word now
Gai Waterhouse clams up though the boys John Singleton Tom Waterhouse and Andrew Johns have their say
Gai Waterhouse was an actor but she was not in this film.
… Go to Article Special May Day Celebration Tues May 7
SOCIALIST ALTERNATIVE SPECIAL EVENT
MAY DAY CELEBRATION
6pm, Tues 7th May
136 Boundary St, West End
(above St Vinnies)
Come along to this special celebration hosted by Socialist Alternative.… Go to Article
Vale Tom
Gonna go out walking
Get some fresh air and sunshine
One foot in front of the other
Taking one step at a time
Looking over my shoulder
At that black dog following me
Gotta keep on walking
Lest he catches up with me
— from 'Black Dog' by Michael Tully [1]
Tom, who grew up in Texas Queensland, was a building worker and strong rank-and-file unionist.… Go to Article
Speak hastily and regret leisurely
Andrew Johns Tom Waterhouse John Singleton Gai Waterhouse:
The stars shine not too bright
Andrew Johns: “Matey, have I said too much?”
… Go to Article