Editor’s Note.
Les Malezer has sent this interesting article around and so I reprint it here. I hope the National Geographic Society do not mind, I notify the editor of that magazine and credit the author (Charles Bowden) and photographer (Jack Dykinga) here.… Go to Article
Hi Everyone,
Here’s a short video by the ETU, on behalf of Tommy Sebasio.
Tommy, an Aboriginal electrician and key figure in his community of Bamaga, worked for Ergon Energy for 20 years, running the power and electricy network for the whole Northern Peninsula.… Go to Article
Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow
Yesterday, Sunday 15 August 2010, I went to a rally and march against global warming in Brisbane’s King George Square (KGSq).… Go to Article
[Aboriginal News]
Wednesday, 11 August 2010
Commissioner appears before CERD Committee at the UN
Graeme Innes AM
Race Discrimination Commissioner
Australian Human Rights Commission
I acknowledge the Chair and CERD Committee, the Australian Government delegation, and the Australian NGO delegation, in particular Dr Djiniyini Gondarra from East Arnhemland, and Rosie Kunoth Monks from Utopia.… Go to Article
Development
Why do none of the political parties support ‘ecologically sustainable development’?
Energy
If the ALP and the federal Labor government support clean energy why is coal going gangbusters here in Queensland?… Go to Article
By the paradigmshift on August 8th, 2010
… Go to ArticleIn early July there was a Defending Indigenous Rights Conference in Mparntwe (Alice Springs), Northern Territory, so this week we spoke to two people from Brisbane who participated: Ewan and Tanya of the Aboriginal Rights Coalition.
Submission to Queensland Government’s Environment and Resources Committee
Growing Queensland’s Renewable Energy Electricity Sector
Prepared by Trevor Berrill on behalf of Sustainable Energy Policy Queensland (SEPQ)
1 July, 2010
SEPQ welcomes and commends Queensland Government on current initiatives as outlined in the 2009 Renewable Energy Plan.… Go to Article
Sancho Panzas and Don Quixotes
And, alas, some Lots from Sodom
Are sampling the deadly juice.
Aphrodites rise from the foam,
Helens shimmer in the mirrors,
And the time of madness nears
— Anna Akhmatova
Socialists should not get too caught up in parliamentary politics.… Go to Article
| VID (8 mins 30 secs) – Ciaron O’Reilly on “Christian Anarchism & the Catholic Worker”.
Talk given at Christian – Anarchist gathering in England 2010. |
I have included a video of the Brisbane rally in support of Ark Tribe with the article from Critical Times below as they offer commentary on the current predicament for building unions immediately prior to the 2010 federal election.… Go to Article
Earlier this year 2010 mineral sand mining firm, UNIMIN, was charged by Qld Department of Environment and Resource Management (DERM) for selling building sand from the silica sand mining process on North Stradbroke Island off Brisbane.… Go to Article
“Sweet dreams and flying machines in pieces on the ground” — from ‘Fire and Rain’ by James Taylor.
We were reminded yesterday that the Australian people do not choose the Australian Prime Minister.… Go to Article
“It is not enough that some succeed, others must fail” — Gore Vidal
While hunting down the facts behind loss of lives of refugees near the Cocos (Keeling) islands I was confronted by the question “Who is writing the script in the lead up to the 2010 federal election.… Go to Article
It is apparent that the authorities* knew that Snr Sgt Hurley killed Mulrunji.
For if they did not know why did they withhold so much information that showed that Hurley is guilty.… Go to Article
by Pamela Curr
This morning [16 Dec 2009] The Australian reports that the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, has completed its assessment of the 78 asylum-seekers on the Oceanic Viking and designated all of them as genuine refugees.… Go to Article
I have just read in the morning paper that Pat Mackie has died at the age of 95.
Pat was a great wobbly and to pay tribute to Pat Mackie’s life I have found this story ‘Red Cap’ about Pat written by Lachlan Hurse.… Go to Article
The following is a report of an ALP/Union Forum titled A two state solution to the Israel Palestine conflict held at Qld parliament on Remembrance Day, 11th November 2009.… Go to Article
by Pamela Curr
FORCED REMOVAL– how it was done
-Lest we forget
“…it is not their violence, it is ours, which turns back on itself and rends them; and the first action of these oppressed creatures is to bury deep down that hidden anger which their and our moralities condemn and which is however only the last refuge of their humanity.”… Go to Article
by Ian Curr
Despite the best efforts of Western democracies the UN human rights council has supported the Goldstone Report on Gaza.… Go to Article
Just like watching the detectives,
C
Don’t get cute
G
Watching the detectives,
Am G
I get so angry when the teardrops start
F C
But he can’t be wounded cos he’s got no heart
G C
Watching the detectives,
Watching the detectives — Elvis Costello “Watching the Detectives” [with chords].… Go to Article
AGE does bring some privileges. Pity the poor teenagers being verbally and pictorially assaulted every night on television by state and federal governments.… Go to Article
The article below gives quite an insight into the Zionist fund-raising organisations – especially the United Israel Appeal (Keren Hayesod) and the JNF (Keren Kayemeth LeYisrael) and the Jewish National Fund [JNF] subsidiary (Himnutah) that specializes in land theft by subterfuge in the occupied territories.… Go to Article
Brisbane to continue to protest attacks on Gaza
Press Release, Friday 9th January 2009
People from all walks of life including members of Brisbane’s Palestinian community along with supporters of Palestinian freedom and social justice will gather in Queens Park in the city on Saturday
10th January 2009 at 12.30 pm to protest Israel’s invasion of Gaza and to highlight the shocking humanitarian crisis that is a result of Israel’s continued murderous attacks on the people of Gaza.… Go to Article
Everybody knows that the dice are loaded
Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed
Everybody knows that the war is over
Everybody knows the good guys lost
Everybody knows the fight was fixed
The poor stay poor, the rich get rich
Thats how it goes
Everybody knows
— Leonard Cohen
Publisher’s Note
Published below are a series of articles about the current crisis in capitalism by Humphrey McQueen ‘to remind people of what used to be obvious’.… Go to Article
RIVER OF TEARS
There’s a cold rain on the Autumn wind
A brother murdered in Sydney Town
Marrickville brother under supposed legal cover
In his home they gunned him down
We say oh oh oh oh oh ooooooh
Gunned him down
Sad river of tears
Two hundred years in the river of fear
Gunned him down —Kev Carmody
About 150 people rallied in Queens Park and then marched to parliament on 10th October 2006 tp present a petition of 1160 names to the Premier of Queensland, Peter Beattie.… Go to Article