The next meeting of the 17 Group will take place in Unit 6, at 20 Drury St, West End, at 7 pm on Wednesday the 6^th of March. … Go to Article

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Serious strike action and a student revolt is the only way to stop it‘ – UQ staff member.

On Monday night a University of Queensland Senate meeting authorised Chancellor Peter Varghese and VC Peter Hoj to negotiate a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Ramsay Centre.… Go to Article

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[Translation] This photo is in a Chilean hospital. It would be very useful that the presidents who will go to the meeting of the “group of grima” bring images of the public hospitals of their countries and the attention they provide to the poorest populations.… Go to Article

As the government tries to weazel out of providing medical care to people in offshore detention, the death and treatment of OMID shows the inhumanity and cruelty towards refugees.… Go to Article

Radio program for CICD’s Alternative News

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Andrew: Welcome to this edition of CICD’s Alternative News on Melbourne’s Community Radio station 3CR.… Go to Article

A reminder that our rally kicks off tomorrow at 1.00pm on the steps of the UQ Union offices. The flyer is attached for you to circulate.  … Go to Article

Nauru medivac “death in custody” inquest. Could refugee Omid Masoumali’s life have been saved? Coroner to investigate from Monday. Latest from me.… Go to Article

Lachlan Hurse (NTEU & Jumping Fences) made this call at yesterday’s rally in Brisbane:

We recall the terrible consequences of US intervention in Cuba, Chile, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Bolivia, Argentina, Uruguay and Guatemala over the past century and can’t stand idly by while the Trump Administration callously lays the groundwork for a civil war.… Go to Article

Festival synopsis

Filmmaker Stephane Brize created a rousing ‘cri de coeur’ for the proletariat with his critically acclaimed feature, The Measure of a Man (Le loi du marche – literally, The law of the market), with the electrifying At War, he channels the spirit underpinning the current yellow jackets movement long before it began.… Go to Article

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Where’s our bonus? http://www.asu.asn.au/news/categories/qantas/190221-media-statement-qantas-must-pay-overdue-worker-bonuses …

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Feb 18, 2019 This week in Beenleigh, next week in Logan … not just Labor apparatchiks, grassroots as well … change of government coming.… Go to Article

Protestors have set up camp at the old Deebing Creek Aboriginal Mission, near Ipswich in south-east Queensland, in a bid to block a major housing development at the site which they say is “very dear” to the local Aboriginal community. … Go to Article

On Friday the Lismore Regional Gallery opened the first exhibitions for the year – one of which is entitled The Terania Creek Protest…

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In September 1974, a young couple, Hugh and Nan Nicholson, bought an abandoned farm at the end of Terania Creek Road adjoining Whian Whian State Forest.… Go to Article

University of Queensland management wants to demolish the original UQ Union Building, the Refectory, the Relaxation Block, the Forum Area and the Schonell Theatre, replacing them with a centre primarily dedicated to corporate retail.… Go to Article

To everyone who cares about a safe climate future, this is your invite to join our School Strike 4 Climate – students standing up when our politicians won’t. … Go to Article

Brisbane rally: Hands off Venezuela – No more US coups

Public · Hosted by Brisbane AVSN – Australia-Venezuela Solidarity Network

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Hosted by Brisbane AVSN – Australia-Venezuela Solidarity Network

International Day of Solidarity

HANDS OFF VENEZUELA – NO MORE U.S.

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I recommend this film. It shows the uneven economic development of Lebanon inside the slums of Beirut. Neo-cons said their policies would bring wealth to Lebanon in the 1970s but this was untrue.… Go to Article

Darkness drops again; but now I know
That 20 centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

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Last Train to Mirabad 
Julian Assange took on the US  
Wikileak'd ten years war in Afghanistan 
Julian roams downstairs in Woolwich Court 
Thinking what would Pilger and Ellsberg do now?

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Dear Members of the Community,

As members of the Toowoomba Housing Task Force, we are reaching out to you about our campaign to save the 37 Aboriginal homes recently put up for auction.… Go to Article

After six years of drought, Mount Isa residents prayed for rain. Then it flooded

For graziers who sweated to keep their herds alive, praying for rain, the scale of the flood is hard to take

Out the back of Mount Isa, in late January, the locals marked a wry milestone.… Go to Article

Morrison and his government have proven to be lightweight.

The modest reform (Medivac Bill) which allows doctors to transfer refugees from detention on hellholes like Nauru & Manus Islands to mainland Australia passed through the House of Reps on 12 Feb 2019.… Go to Article