Right now, big fracking companies are lining up to drill through precious groundwater in the Northern Territory, destroying sacred Country, putting remote communities’ health at risk, and contributing to catastrophic climate change.… Go to Article

In an unsettled world, amid violent wars and imperial occupations, with all norms ruthlessly cast aside, did Kashmir really have a chance to be free?… Go to Article

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The monthly performance space hosted by Jumping Fences in the heart of Brisbane’s West End.

Performing this month: Baerg-Roeseli | Silken Thomas | Jumping Fences.… Go to Article

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How Uber attracted capital in its several forms turns out to be neither innovative nor ingenious, merely delusional beyond the point of fraud.… Go to Article

Schrinner renews calls for Indigenous cultural centre

Brisbane’s lord mayor says the city needs an Indigenous cultural centre to properly recognise its heritage and history.… Go to Article

Only Human (broadcast on 4ZZZ fm 102.1, Mondays at Noon) interviews and recordings of the Brisbane climate strike held on 20 September, 2019.… Go to Article

On Minjerribah there is a contest going on between land developers and green capitalists … both developers and green capitalists want to build on the foreshores, this time on Mooloomba Road at Point Lookout.… Go to Article

We stand together with all First Nations people. We stand against this injustice. We want climate justice for everybody. As First Nations people, we will lead the way.… Go to Article

“Dreamers don’t abandon
their dreams, they flare and continue
the life they have in the dream…tell me
how you lived your dream in a certain place
and I’ll tell you who you are.… Go to Article

A German city has reversed its decision to hand a literary prize to the novelist Kamila Shamsie because of her support for the pro-Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement.… Go to Article

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First nations people have used honey as a medicine for millennia, particularly as a wound dressing, across many different cultures including Australian Aboriginal people.… Go to Article

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The video—excerpts of running footage captured by a camera mounted on the Apache—depicts soldiers conducting an operation in eastern Baghdad, not long after the surge began.… Go to Article

Can’t see anyone stepping forward to fill the role as head of the Australian Garlic Industry Association …

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A Tasmanian woman who put Australia’s agricultural sector at risk by illegally importing garlic bulbs marked as “office supplies” to avoid detection will spend at least two months in jail.… Go to Article

American workers use nationalism against Chinese workers.

Result: defeat.

Whatever happened to ‘workers of all countries unite’!

Trailer: “Cultures collide. Hope survives.… Go to Article

This Paradigm Shift (4ZZZ fm102.1 Fridays at noon) tells the story of the cruel detention and deportation of a Tamil family who had already been settled in the country town of Queensland called Biloela.… Go to Article

From the jungles of Borneo, fresh from the Big Ride for Palestine, Jumping Fences perform with two other bands at Kurilpa Hall tonight … Friday 6 Sept 2019 …

REMINDER TONIGHT!Foco

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Can the Privy Council dissolve the UK parliament?

The President of the Privy Council is Jacob Rees-Mogg (a catholic) and is likely to be trying to get the Council members to advise Her Majesty to prorogue the parliament.… Go to Article

“In the naked light I saw … a thousand people, maybe more
Silence like a cancer grows ” – Simon & Garfunkel

I have been at all but one of the climate change events since late last year.… Go to Article

This Saturday arvo from 4pm, we’re holding a campaign intro session at Turnstyle (10 Laura St, Highgate Hill), where we talk about our goals for the coming council election campaign and explain how you can get involved.… Go to Article

West Papuans are currently engaged in a full-scale, nationwide, nonviolent insurrection. The uprising was sparked by a racist attack on West Papuan students by Indonesian police, military and an Indonesian mob, in the Indonesian city of Surabaya.… Go to Article

Local government is where the Left should be at because that is where services are delivered to ordinary people. – Editor

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Do you live in Teneriffe, Bowen Hills, New Farm, Fortitude Valley, Brisbane CBD or the south side of Newstead?… Go to Article

The Department of Environment and Science has given notice that the Schonell Theatre be placed in the Queensland Heritage Register as a State Heritage Place.… Go to Article

In early spring 2019, twenty-five riders and eight supporters set out on 160 km journey from Brisbane to Brunswick Heads to raise awareness about Palestine and to raise money for an agricultural project sponsored by union aid abroad APHEDA.… Go to Article

The person being arrested with a smile is John Pitt who later fought against logging in Terania Creek in the 1980s along with others.… Go to Article