Foco Nuevo: the sounds of our town

Foco Nuevo in September

Friday, 6th September, 2019
Doors open 7.00 pm Music starts 7.30 pm.… Go to Article

They are at it again. Labor in the State Parliament and Liberals in the Brisbane City Council (BCC) are both trying to turn the clock back by 40 years where ordinary people did not have the right to march and assemble in Queensland.… Go to Article

Lebanese Presence in South Brisbane, Woolloongabba and West End

For anyone who has lived in or around West End in Brisbane this is a truly wonderful book.… Go to Article

The next meeting of the 17 Group will be held on Wednesday the 4th of September at 7 pm in unit 6, at 20 Drury St, West End.… Go to Article

“I hear what you say, but have you considered … ?”

– Sir Zelman Cowen,
Vice-Chancellor University of Qld
during the Vietnam War

Intro: University of Queensland Vice-Chancellor Høj was unavailable for radio interview on 4ZZZ, so Paradigm Shift submitted the following written questions for his consideration and response.… Go to Article

Adani has just sunk to a new low, setting a brutal new standard for corporate behaviour.

For the first time in Australia’s history, a company has bankrupted an Aboriginal leader for standing up for the inalienable rights of First Nations people to our law, our country and our culture.… Go to Article

WBT posts this article and podcast from Popular Resistance. Surely the test is how workers in both HK and mainland China are treated?… Go to Article

Recently my brother and I did the Brisbane Valley Rail Trail, about 190 kms in 4 days on recumbent bikes (pictured).… Go to Article

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Bluestocking Week 12-16 August 2019

Bluestocking week is now in its seventh year and the NTEU, together with NUS (National Union of Students) has seen the event grow in both scope and size.… Go to Article

Rebel Yell is a fundraising concert to support frontline climate change activists. It’s being organised by the Extinction Rebellion Group Lismore at the Italo Australia Club on August 24.… Go to Article

Eyewitness Palestine’s Community Arts and Resilience Delegation has arrived in Palestine/Israel and is currently in Jerusalem. ​The delegation will be sharing Eyewitness Accounts, photos, and videos from the ground over the course of the next two weeks.… Go to Article

Forty-five short stories & memoirs by Queensland writers.  Stories of corruption & violence.  Stories of repression & resistance.  More than 250 pages that peel back the rotten banana that was life in this state under Gerrymander-Joh… Plenty to feed the chooks with…

Historian Ray Evans will launch the book. … Go to Article

We post this article by Brendan O’Malley in the Westside News about Queensland university’s moves to demolish the UQ Union complex.… Go to Article

Rebekah Dowling will be talking about Christian Peacemaking Teams and her time in Iraqi Kurdistan

For those who may have missed Rebekah’s talks, she will be speaking and showing slides at Dorothy Day house, 126 Juliette St next Monday night 19^thAugust starting at 7pm.… Go to Article

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“In hollows behind outhouses
or back of a wall of pepper tree, tanks
are sleeping, stirring.
They expand, become nervous and rough,
and grinning with iron dimples
begin to move out to the edge of town
to wait for the lorry to place unknown.”… Go to Article

Thanks to Trevor Berrill  for two articles on Climate Change.
We post Why Central Banks Need to Step Up on Global Warming below.… Go to Article

Vale Ross Taylor
Words said at Ross Taylor’s Funeral
Tewantin, 5 August 2019

Ross Taylor did not come from this place, this is not his country.… Go to Article

On the 4th August 2019 the Minister for Natural Resources, Mines and Energy, Anthony Lynham, gave the Brisbane Times a scoop.… Go to Article