It has taken six months for this postcard to arrive from Cuba to Australia; posted in May 2018 it has just arrived in November of the same year.… Go to Article
Month: November 2018
Save me, Brisbane
… Last Word on Remembrance Day
HAIG
Of the several criticisms leveled against Ernest Newman’s four-volume biography of Richard Wagner was that it never mentioned that his patron, King Ludwig II of Bavaria, was mad.… Go to Article
A future free of men’s violence against women
What ‘heritage’ means?
There is a course at the University of Queensland called Local Planning, Landscape & Heritage where students learn ‘about plans, planning schemes, codes & guidelines currently used in local planning practice’.… Go to Article
Imagining Peace
… Dark Emu
11 November: Armistice Day
‘After “the war to end war”
they seem to have been pretty successful
in Paris at making
“Peace to end Peace’
- Field-Marshall Earl Wavell
Or, Making the World Safe for Big Oil
The guns fell silent on the Western Front at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month while they continued to blaze on the Eastern Front, in the Far East and – above all – throughout the Middle East as they still do.… Go to Article
Dark Emu‘s stinging rebuke
Bruce Pascoe, a Bunurong and Yuin man from Tasmania, delivers a stinging rebuke to historians and educators in a speech broadcast on 4ZZZ’s Paradigm Shift.… Go to Article
Hurried Steps
A Brisbane production of the play Hurried Steps by Dacia Maraini is being staged by RedVentures Theatre Action Group on 17 November as part of the global movement to end violence against women and girls.… Go to Article
Pull down BCC’s anti-homeless fences
Please join us for a 1-hour working bee to dismantle the temporary fencing underneath the Kurilpa Bridge and send a clear message to the State Government that they should be helping homeless people by housing them, not moving them on.… Go to Article
Foco tonight!
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Night Shift
— A BushTelegraph Zine about current events
Radical simply means grasping at the root – Angela DavisOver the past two years, while WBT was in recess, I have been writing and publishing essays about the state of the world.
Schonell’s List
‘It ain’t over till the fat lady sings’ – Anon.
Just going through this short history and reading the list of Schonell’s first releases makes me realise how influential this theatre has been in the cultural life of Brisbane.… Go to Article