The Genealogy of Terra Nullius

ANDREW FITZMAURICE
This article examines the genealogy of the term terra nullius, which remains elusive even as it is now clear that the term is absent from the eighteenth – and early nineteenth century historical record.… Go to Article

PShift Retrospective 2013

History is an angel being blown backwards into the future
He said: History is a pile of debris
And the angel wants to go back and fix things
To repair the things that have been broken
But there is a storm blowing from Paradise
And the storm keeps blowing the angel backwards into the future
And this storm, this storm is called Progress.… Go to Article

Mandela memorial: history from an a to an z, in a tea-cup.

what began, as i saw it, as an historical storm in a tea-cup became, due to the frantic efforts of a few people, a lesson and rebuttal on rewriting history or the attempt thereof.… Go to Article

Aboriginal shareholders ‘driven off land’ by rising rents in remote Lake Tyers community

By Jeff Waters

Video: Lorraine Sellings has been recently evicted from her house in Lake Tyers (ABC News)

Map: Lake Tyers 3887

Aboriginal shareholder-owners of Victoria’s remote Lake Tyers community say they are being driven off their land, because even though they collectively own the freehold property, they are being charged what they say are ever-increasing rents.… Go to Article

Towards Peace — a worker’s journey

Towards Peace – A workers Journey (PDF) by Phil O’Brien and Bernie Dowling [SHAPE – Social History Publishing Enterprise with LeftPress]

 Tunnelling through the night, the trains pass
in a splendour of power, with a sound like thunder
shaking the orchards, waking
the young from a dream, scattering like glass
the old men's sleep; laying
a black trail over the still bloom of the orchards.

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Salvador Allende this Friday at Goma

Salvador Allende 2004 Ages 15+

Fri 20 Dec 6.00pm / Cinema A

DVCAM TRANSFERRED TO 35MM, BLACK AND WHITE AND COLOUR, DOLBY DIGITAL, 100 MINUTES, FRANCE/BELGIUM/CHILE/FRANCE/GERMANY/SPAIN/MEXICO, SPANISH (ENGLISH SUBTITLES) / DIRECTOR/SCRIPT: PATRICIO GUZMÁN / CINEMATOGRAPHERS: PATRICIO GUZMÁN, JULIA MUÑOZ / EDITOR: CLAUDIO MARTINEZ / PRINT SOURCE/RIGHTS: JBA PRODUCTIONS

‘Guzmán’s moving portrait of the Chilean leader retraces the path of his early years and the terrible end of his political career, speaking with surviving friends, family members and loyal followers in order to define the personality and political ideas that guided his revolutionary program.… Go to Article

Refugee MUST READ- Babies in detention

‘Don’t call my baby illegal!’ Inside asylum seeker maternity wards

CAROLINE DE COSTA
Professor at James Cook University School of Medicine| EMAIL | COMMENT
I am sitting in a room with several families and numerous small children on a hot Darwin Saturday morning.… Go to Article

No Permanent Protection Visas

No Permanent Protection Visas to be granted to people who arrive in Australia without visas.

THIS is the excuse given for no releases from detention since Morrison took over.… Go to Article

Sinking below sight

The opposite of poverty isn’t wealth. It’s justice

Bryan Stevenson – US death row attorney

FOUR years ago I moved with no great enthusiasm and a troubled child to Logan City, one of Australia’s ten poorest urban areas.… Go to Article

Xmas day lunch at Brisbane Aboriginal Sovereign Embassy

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WBT Editor needed for 2014

WBT is looking for a new editor in 2014.

This may take the form of an individual or an editorial collective.… Go to Article

Urgent Appeal to Pope Francis to help Gaza

Gazan families are suffering. Israel and Egypt have cut off fuel supplies so that Gazans have had no electricity and vital services for 2 months.… Go to Article

Art tells the story

THREE years ago the not so magnificent seven of us were sitting around, drinking coffee and eating crackers laden with chili-cheese dip.

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Get a lawyer, a real Godot one

We Australian taxpayers kindly bought attorney-general George Brandis a copy of the Samuel Beckett play Waiting for Godot for the bookshelf of his Canberra office.

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Mirarr safety fears remain despite Ranger visit

Traditional owners in Kakadu National Park still fear for the health of their country after a technical team visited the Ranger Uranium Mine today, following a series of pollution spills and safety breaches.… Go to Article

Justice for Kevin Hall

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What happened on Invasion Day 2014?

On January 26th 2014, we rallied outside QLD Parliament in Brisbane City at 10am.… Go to Article

Munching the Millions

AUSTRALIANS will gamble on two flies. crawling up a wall, they say.

Aussie bookmaker Tom Waterhouse is currently betting on how much Edvard Munch’s painting The Scream will fetch at a Southey’s auction this month.… Go to Article

FOLEY

The trailer for Gary Foley’s one-man show – FOLEY.

Performing at the Street Theatre in July 2013 as part of the Centenary of Canberra.… Go to Article

Unions without a Cosa?

On this week’s show Aaron Bastani and James Butler from Novara and Resonance fm discuss the ’3Cosas’ campaign and forthcoming strikes throughout UK higher education.… Go to Article

Kooii at the HiFI this Sat with Bobby Alu

hi friends,

Kooii is playing this Saturday Dec 14 at the HiFi supporting Bobby Alu for the release of their album.… Go to Article

indigenous social justice association wins international prize

this media report by barry parker of afp is the only known media interest shown by the mainstream australian media to the wonderful good news that isja has been included as one of 5 laureates chosen for the 2013 french human rights awards for this year.… Go to Article

G20 protest group condemns Courier Mail pot stirring

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Aboriginal delegation to Santos, “Stop before it’s too late!”

To all Gamilaraay people living in Brisbane who would like to be a part of this, please turn up to Musgrave park at 9.00am to be painted up in Gamilaraay designs.

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BFU Presents: The Politics of Schooling, a panel discussion.

Dear BFUers,

The Brisbane Free University invites you to a panel discussion on the Politics of Schooling, featuring four diverse voices from the Brisbane Community.… Go to Article

Celebrate the launch of Vision 111

Bent Banana Books is offering the third installment of Jane Sharp’s Vision III psychic mysteries free for five days. Flight of the Reluctant Psychic is free from the Kindle store from December 10 to December 15.

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Bent Banana Books

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Noir thrills in Brisbane

Bent Banana Books has all its titles at Bewdiful BargainBasement prices this festive season starting with Bernie Dowling’s neo-noir novel Iraqi Icicle at .99c.… Go to Article