Month: November 2018

Qld Human Rights Bill a con

The Human Rights Bill 2018 is a carefully crafted con. Superficially it purports to conform with the legal principle that Australian legislation does not conflict with international law, and with Australia’s responsibility as a member state of the United Nations to fully observe and implement international law, but in fact the Human Rights Bill 2018 deliberately and intentionally avoids compliance with both of the above.… Go to Article

Solidarity with Mapuche

    The Chilean community in Brisbane is making a call to stand up for the Mapuche people in Chile, the indigenous people from the Temukuikuiis community, from the south of Chile has been under siege and repressed for the last years due to the government and private companies wanting to take over their ancestral lands.… Go to Article

    Moreton Bay

    One Sunday morning
    While I was out walking
    By the Brisbane’s waters
    I chanced to stray
    There I found a prisoner
    Layed half in the water
    He’d seen me coming
    And he began to say

    Sixteen Straws, The Drones

    The start is Moreton Bay (also known as – The Convict’s Lament on the Death of Captain Logan and also The Convict’s Arrival) which is attributed to Frank the Poet (Francis MacNamara), an Irish convict sent to New South Wales who’s strong anti-English sentiment was expressed in many of his verses, particularly his condemnation of Captain Logan in several of his poems.… Go to Article

    #SnapBrisbane

    Watch the butcher shine his knives
    And this town is full of battered wives
    …………………………………….
    They shut it down
    They pulled it down
    They shut it down
    They pulled it down

    On 14 November Quest News is running a #SnapBrisbane campaign to”to celebrate all the things people love about where they live and generate pride in our beautiful cities.”… Go to Article

    Bread

    Brisbane Radical Events and Diary
    Thursday November 15

    The Reluctant Radical Film Screening (FLAC Fundraiser)
    6-8:30pm at Rumpus Room, 1/56 Russell St West End
    Facebook event

    If a crime is committed in order to prevent a greater crime, is it forgivable?… Go to Article