Two hundred and fifty (250) years after Cook’s landing at Botany Bay WBT publishes this essay ‘Discoveries of Cook‘ by Humphrey McQueen, rejected by Meanjin for being ‘too erudite‘ – Ed.… Go to Article
Month: April 2020
‘Spoiler’ helps Mayor in Redlands
Toondah Harbour, the gateway to Straddie, was decisive in the recent Mayoral elections in the Redlands on Moreton Bay. Although more than 50% voted against her, the incumbent, Karen Williams, won.… Go to Article
Letter from America
More Americans have been killed by COVID-19 in two months than were killed in the nine years of the Viet Nam War.… Go to Article
History as Myth/Propaganda
Paradigm Shift (4ZZZ fm 102.1 Fridays at noon) April 24, 2020
This week we chat with historian Peter Stanley about “history as mythology”.… Go to Article
Setting the record straight on the illegal detention of Cornelia Rau
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t – Mark Twain
Baxter detention Centre South Australia 2005
Setting the record straight on facts of the case on which the excellent fictionalised drama “Stateless” was loosely based.… Go to Article
Foco Nuevo celebrates May Day under Covid-19
In lieu of their regular monthly Foco Nuevo concert in Brisbane, Australia, Jumping Fences – Sue Monk and Lachlan Hurse – will live-stream a collection of their original songs.… Go to Article
Anzac Day – ‘for God, King & Empire’
Tunnelling through the night, the trains pass in a splendour of power, with a sound like thunder shaking the orchards, waking the young from a dream, scattering like glass the old men's sleep; laying a black trail over the still bloom of the orchards.
Vale Janet Allison
Janet Allison was a fellow student and worker. Janet attended the University of Queensland in the late 1970s and was active in student politics.… Go to Article
Howard Smith Wharf Ferry Terminal
For Jagera people, Kangaroo Point is most sacred
because that is where we could first see
the morning light (before colonisation)
- Kevin Vieritz (1958 - 2015)
During the 1974 Brisbane floods I was in a police car on the Storey Bridge looking down at Howard Smith Wharves on the Bowen Terrace Fortitude Valley side and Evans Deakin Shipyard on the Kangaroo Point side.… Go to Article
Pandemic – ‘behold a pale horse’
My Grandfather, Ted Curr, enlisted in Melbourne in December 1915, and left for Europe in 1916.… Go to Article
Make or break?
WBT reprints this article by Andy Payne … a thoughtful travel log of left-wing dreams we have all experienced at one time or another.… Go to Article
Immigration Detention Centre Outbreak at Woomera 2002
It was originally intended to hold 400 people, however at its peak in April 2000 it had nearly 1,500 detainees. After ongoing public pressure in response to several well publicised riots from 2000, accusations of human rights abuses, and capacity issues, the centre closed in April 2003.… Go to Article
Covid-19 plea for Assange
Julian Assange took on the US… Go to Article
Wikileak'd ten years war in Afghanistan
Julian roams downstairs in Woolwich Court
Thinking what would Pilger and Ellsberg do now?
The medium as the message in protest music
Paradigm Shift 4ZZZ fm102.1 Fridays at Noon 17 April 2020
Andy presents.
The medium is the message” declared Marshall McLuhan in 1964 – trying to understand how changing technology shaped society.… Go to Article
When will we ever learn …?
This is Paradigm Shift broadcast on 4ZZZ fm 102.1 Fridays at Noon and I’m Ian. This week we ask: “Is deployment of US Marines to Australia a question of sovereignty”?… Go to Article
Cities in Masks
“There is no more time. We have no more in-patient beds, we are constrained to reuse individual protection equipment, and in many situations the equipment that is available isn’t suitable.… Go to Article
Watch “Ruth Mundy – Adani” on YouTube
Work, Covid 19 & Universal Basic Income
Cuban Posters
A friend has reminded me that in the 1960s & early 70s Cuban posters such as these used to hang on the walls of the University of Queensland Student Union Building.… Go to Article
Being left wing in Australia
Paradigm Shift 4zzz fm 102.1 Fridays at Noon APRIL 3, 2020
We speak with Geoff Robinson, author of the book “Being Left Wing in Australia: Identity, Culture and Politics after Socialism“.… Go to Article
NSW report on Covid 19
Interesting interview with NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian, police and health officials. NSW Premier says that 103,000 people have been tested in NSW so far which is good but that’s 0.7% of the population which is very little data to base wide-ranging conclusions upon.… Go to Article
Radical wins in West End
Congratulations Jonathan Sri in the Gabba Ward in Brisbane Council elections. After preferences were allocated Jonathan Sri has won over 68% of the vote.… Go to Article