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  • The sleep of reason is the birth of monsters
  • Intro by Isabelle from United Nations Association Australia
  • Wreath Laying and Last Post
  • Clem Campbell And Final Tune By Amberley Pipes And Drums Band
  • Reverend John Silver
  • Reflections of Lt Kristy Miles on peacekeeping in Egypt & Palestine
  • Rwanda Community Choir
  • Jeanette Young - Qld Governor
  • UN Secretary General's message - the Price of Peace
  • Australia's UN Peacekeepers - Just Peace?
  • National Anthem Sung By Theresa And Agnes
  • Claire Moore - President UNAA Q
  • The Greensland Election
  • Life wasn't meant to be easy under Albanese
  • The Persecution and Assassination of #ShireenAbuAkleh by IDF in Jenin funded by US
  • Intro to May Day podcast
  • Developers 'coming up the road like cancer'
  • Exodus & The Wailers - Traffic Jam

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Welcome people from all directions. Letters to the Editor  WBT does not reveal our sources. We do not hold shares or interests in corporations. We monitor this site for factual errors.  If readers see errors please email the editor or place a correction in a comment box.Banner image is of the southern border ranges in Queensland. Photo: L.HursePlease be aware this site contains images and voices of indigenous people now deceased.

A Short History of the Australian Indigenous Resistance 1950 – 1990 by Garey Foley

Websites

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A Short History of the Australian Indigenous Resistance 1950 – 1990 by Gary Foley

Leading Articles

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  • The 17 Group: Prison reform
  • Abortion rights across the world
  • 1985 SEQEB Dispute: ‘the sleep of reason is the birth of monsters’
  • Infantile disorder in the Greens
  • Foco Nuevo in winter
  • Australia’s Defence Policy Explained
  • Julian Assange’s 51st Birthday Party
  • Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons
  • What should Lloyd’s of London underwrite?
  • Vale Ted D’Urso
  • Protected: Among the unions – the workers are still quiet
  • The Battle for Taringa
  • Open Letter to Prime Minister regarding Palestine
  • Failure of the electricity marketeers … despite government subsidies
  • Hollywood according to Arthur Laurents
  • Equal love
  • 1970s Inflationary Spiral?
  • How long, how long, must refugees wait?
  • Queensland’s  gaol and imprisonment crisis
  • Solutions to the ‘Edge of Darkness’
  • Solidarity with Brazilian people
  • Hands
  • Buying back the farm
  • Queensland’s own Bleak House
  • Songs of Working Life
  • US Military bases in the Pacific
  • The ‘Price of Peace’
  • Australia’s UN Peacemakers – Just Peace?
  • The ‘Greensland’ Election

Books, Films and Essays

  • ‘Edward M Curr and the tide of history’ by Samuel Furphy
  • A Short History of the Australian Indigenous Resistance 1950 – 1990
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    • “The Sydney Connection” by John Jiggens
    • “VUELO LAN CHILE” by Marcial Parada
    • “Vuelo Lan Chile” by Marcial Parada
    • "Liberating Pine Gap" by Jim Dowling (ed.)
    • 4PR – Voice of the People
    • Dawn to Dusk by Ernie Lane
    • Gone Tomorrow – Australia in the 80s
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    • Poems
    • The 1992 Left Directory
    • The Australian Race: its origin, languages, customs, place of landing in Australia, the routes by which it spread itself over that continent
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    • The Wretched of the Earth
    • Towards Peace – A workers Journey
    • You say you want a revolution
  • Catholic Worker response to Land Forces Expo
  • Cinema del popolo
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    • 1900 by Bertolucci
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    • Tribute to the Schonell
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