A man stands on a beach in a distant land.
Lest we forget our other heroes of war, fighting for freedom at home
Month: April 2015
Jobs for the boys – Mackenroth
Terry Mackenroth’s call for planning check-ups
… Go to ArticleControversially, he (Mackenroth) also had a stint as a lobbyist, which gained him and former federal politician Con Sciacca a $500,000 success fee to represent the now-failed BrisConnections infrastructure consortium for the $5bn Airport Link contract.
Brisbane Free University
Next year in Jerusalem …
Wicked Pickets and Anti-War actions
Paradigm Shift [community radio 4zzz fm 102.1 fridays at noon] covers two important issues: sexist advertising and the ongoing war in Iraq.… Go to Article
Maori to rally against remote Indigenous community closures
Maori-led protests against the closure of Aboriginal communities will be held ahead of Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s visit to New Zealand next week.… Go to Article
Malcolm Fraser’s refugee policy: no model for today
[PN: As the Australian government charters a plane to move refugees from Nauru to Cambodia, this article by Hal Hewson is re-printed with permission from the Solidarity website 
.(click… Go to Article
Snap Action – Against Adani’s Carmichael Mine
Meeting at 8.30 for a 9.00am start at the
Land and Environment Court, 363 George Street, Brisbane
Since March 31 Coast and Country Inc, represented by the Environmental Defenders Office Qld have been in the Land and Environment Court, objecting to Adani’s proposed Carmichael Coal Mine in the Galilee Basin.… Go to Article
Don’t Expect Middle East Peace to be a (U.S.) Presidential Campaign Issue
[PN: To get a sense of where the US elections are at, the article below are the views of a Chicago based Palestinian journalist and comedian, Ray Hanania, about how little American politics will focus on the needs and aspirations of the Palestinian people or Arabs generally in the upcoming presidential elections next year.
… Go to Article Detention centre guards suspended over social media posts
Eight members of the ‘emergency response team’ at Nauru stood down
Eight guards from Nauru detention centre have been suspended over a possible breach of their employer’s social media guidelines.… Go to Article
Fireside Conversation – COMMUNITY CLOSURE: LIFESTYLE CHOICE OR LIVING CULTURE
Natural Amphitheatre, University of Queensland, St Lucia (Opposite Wordsmiths)
Panellists include: Sam Cook and Paul Spearim
Fire, Music by Condy Canuto, and Food
Supported by the NTEU, UQU and Goorie Berrimpa
Staff and students at the University of Queensland will hear from a panel of Aboriginal experts about the forced closures of Aboriginal communities at an event being organised by the National Tertiary Education Union and the UQ Student Union on Thursday, April 23.… Go to Article
FRACKMAN at BEMAC Cinema April 20th
THE ENEMY WITHIN (aka STILL THE ENEMY WITHIN) about the 1984-85 British Miners’ Strike.
… Go to ArticleMore details as they come to hand
http://the-enemy-within.org.uk/
Uninvited and unwelcome: a brief introduction to early Lebanese migration to Australia
[Publisher’s note:
This article is posted here with permission from the publisher Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies. It is written by Anne Monsour.… Go to Article
India’s Sysiphean task
[Publisher’s Note: Michael West used to work for Murdoch having a humorous take on the markets in a column called Margin Call in the Australian.… Go to Article
Reclaiming Australia from the modern age
Was this a gift from the Newman Government to the people of Australia?
The uncertain morality of at least one of the components of the anti-Muslim movement is indicated by the case of an organisation incorporated in Queensland.… Go to Article
Cartoons from Iraqi Media
Alliance
Boxes (American Aid)…. ISIS slogan (thanks God for whoever brought us this)
… Go to ArticlePilot: We are sorry!… The left side is Iraqi Army….
Film screening: WAGING PEACE
Confronting the military complex & remembering the Frontier Wars.
New documentary by multi-award winning Australian director David Bradbury is a must-see depiction of people’s history and a glimpse into the passions and politics of the modern Australian peace movement.… Go to Article
GIRAFFADA – movie event 6pm Saturday 11 April (Reminder)
Baghdad Year Zero
[Publisher’s Note: It is worth posting this article that I discovered as a chapter in Naomi Klein’s book “The Shock Doctrine” … anyway, revisiting this material helps us understand what produced the pre-modern savagery of ISIS.]… Go to Article
Casualty Figures after 10 Years of the “War on Terror” in Iraq, Afghanistan & Pakistan
“Many anti-war activists fail to see much reason in debating the question of 
whether some tens of thousands more or less were killed in a war, because any person killed by war is one too many.… Go to Article
Selling Students Short: Why you won’t get the university education you deserve
Join academic and author Richard Hil in-conversation with ABC Radio National’s Paul Barclay discussing Selling Students Short: Why you won’t get the university education you deserve.… Go to Article
Billy Gordon refuses to resign from Parliament, but will still back Labor
The Queensland Aboriginal MP at the centre of a political storm has confirmed he will not resign, but will continue to support the Palaszcuk government from the crossbenches.
Cambridge History of Capitalism
Humphrey McQueen has been working for the past year or more on a historical analysis of the development of capital within capitalism.… Go to Article
How Saddam Hussein’s former military officers and spies are controlling ISIS
When Abu Hamza, a former Syrian rebel, agreed to join Isis, he did so assuming he would become a part of the group’s promised Islamist utopia, which has lured foreign jihadists from around the globe.… Go to Article
Brisbane Screening of Pig Iron Bob – 17 April 2015
Comrades and Friends
Brisbane Labour History Association has been asked to help promote through its networks the screening of a new documentary, Pig Iron Bob.… Go to Article
International Workers’ Memorial Day – 28 April 2015.
41 Australians have been killed at work. Last year, 185 Australians were killed at work. The year before that, it was 186 workplace deaths.… Go to Article
Socialist Campaign for a Labour Victory
In the general election, Workers’ Liberty is supporting the Socialist Campaign for a Labour Victory, which combines fighting to throw out the Tories with working for labour movement pressure on the Labour Party to win working-class demands, as well as getting a clear socialist – class-struggle, internationalist, pro-migrant – message out there.… Go to Article
Zombie Animals to haunt ANZ over Leard, Galilee
The animals killed at Leard State Forest have come back as Zombies! To haunt ANZ who financed their death.
‘Zombie Attacks’ are being organised and will escalate until ANZ commits to NEVER fund the Galilee Basin Projects, for ecological rather than financial reasons.… Go to Article