Brisbane will be hosting Students of Sustainability (SoS) July 7-11. This is our opportunity to support and be involved in one of the most important environment events of the year….… Go to Article

Hey folks!

We’ve got a stellar week lined up for the Brisbane Free University with two talks scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday evening.

Editor’s Note:  This is what Pilger has to say in a world without a ‘ban the bomb movement’ that helped keep us safe in the 1950s -1970s … this article rocks our complacency about the possibility of war.… Go to Article

Redcliffe picket on Monday 30 May 2016
Meet at 10am at Yvette D’ath (Attorney General) office at Bluewater Square shopping centre, cnr ANZAC Ave and Sutton St, Redcliffe and then picket the Legal centres conference at the Mon Komo Hotel, Redcliffe.… Go to Article

Stradbroke Mining Bill passed on National Sorry Day
Editor’s Note: Word is just in that the Newman government legislation extending sand-mining on Straddie has been repealed.… Go to Article

Having failed to stop the growth of the BDS movement, Israel has launched an unprecedented attack against the non-violent international boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israel movement.… Go to Article

Friday, 3rd June, 2016
8.00 pm
Kurilpa Hall
174 Boundary Street, West End (map)

Come and warm yourself with the wonderful music on offer at our first Foco Nuevo for winter 2016, with our guests Luna Junction and Ian Dearden.… Go to Article

Owing to the annual religious commitments of our largely Maroonite Originist congregation, the 17 Group meeting to be addressed by Larry Zetlin on his documentary about the 60s-70s anti-conscription movement will not risk a potentially sacrilegious clash with this year’s first encounter of true believers with the southern heretics on Wednesday the 1st of June.… Go to Article

Editor’s Note: The Sovereign Women United group here in Brisbane have asked me to publish this notice and short article below.… Go to Article

[Editor’s Note: Thursday 26th May 2016 is the 19th anniversary of the 1997 ‘Bringing them home report‘ about the stolen generation.… Go to Article

The 26th May 2016 marks the 19th anniversary of the Bringing Them Home report. 19 years on, the rates of Aboriginal child removal has sky-rocketed.… Go to Article

Bert Hill’s house is up for sale, part of the rezoning for commercial use of that section of Payne road, The Gap, where I grew up in Brisbane during the 1950s.… Go to Article

With the exception of Ray Bergmann’s comments in curly brackets} and the concluding paragraphs on “Patriarchy, Governance and Violence in Turkey” (analysing a lecture given on 19 May 2016 by Deniz Kandiyoti) this is an extract from the 26 October 2015 article by Karabekir Akkoyunlu, Assistant Professor of Modern Turkey at the Centre for Southeast European Studies, University of Graz: Old Demons in New Faces?… Go to Article

[Editor’s Note: This is a comment to an article by Jon Picini – Four theses on ‘green bans’ and the contemporary right to the city]

Regarding what Brisbane Aboriginal Sovereign Embassy’s Boe Spearim said at a recent public meeting about affordable housing for Indigenous Australians*, I know this has fallen (largely) on deaf ears in the past, but attempts by the Brisbane Aboriginal Community (through Link-Up) to set up an Aboriginal Juvenile Community Centre opposite West End Primary school at 26 Horan Street was subverted by Qld Public Trustee (Peter Carne formerly of Goss, Downy & Carne).… Go to Article

Note from Black Women of Brazil: Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past week, or just don’t really tune into news coming out of Brazil, you know that President Dilma Rousseff was removed suspended from the Presidency for a period of 180 days and replaced by her Vice-President Michel Temer.… Go to Article

[Editors Note: No one talks about workers democracy anymore … why is that? Do people even know what it is? You know, going on strike, organising for better pay, conditions, for a better political system where workers have a say in what is produced … ]

Did you know that while voting in Australia is compulsory, there are more than 1 million eligible Australians who aren’t enrolled to vote?… Go to Article

On Wednesday 11th May, the blacklisting group litigation will see lawyers for the construction companies read out their so called apology in the High Court.… Go to Article

Australian Scholarly Publishing and Jeff Rickertt are launching Jeff’s book, ‘The Conscientious Communist: Ernie Lane and the Rise of Australian Socialism‘.… Go to Article

Dear supporters of the Palestinian People
There will be a vigil to commemorate Al Nakba on Friday May 13 at 6pm in King George Square.… Go to Article

flier PDF.pdf… Go to Article

Andy and Ian talk about May Day and the future of Unions. Andy interviews person from the Sydney Solidarity Network about direct action by workers to defend rights and conditions.… Go to Article

You may be interested in a report that three of us are giving next Thursday evening on the trip to China we did last year to look at environmental developments in China.… Go to Article

NEWS items of note …… Brisbane News

Crime Corruption Commission (CCC) allege that Public Trustee staff member (dismissed) was given a bribe by a Brisbane property developer.… Go to Article

In Brisbane, in the late 1970s  the religious sect Ananda Marga were active in helping unemployed, including organising soup kitchens for aboriginal people.… Go to Article

Emergency Brisbane rally – hosted by Refugee Action Collective

Close Nauru & Manus Island.

Bring them here.

When & where:

5pm, Friday 6th May, King George Square, Brisbane.