A Natural Wonder in Peril

You are invited to a book launch:
The Internment Diaries of Mario Sardi
edited and with an introduction by Ilma Martinuzzi O’Brien
at: the Dante Alighieri Society, Brisbane
26 Gray St, New Farm
Saturday 2 November, 5pm
The book will be presented by Ilma Martinuzzi O’Brien, who will be introduced by Catherine Dewhirst, with open discussion following in English and Italian.… Go to Article

The Third Metropolis: talk on the beginnings of English studies at UQ

Many of you may be interested in the talk advertised below.

At 1 pm on Friday 20th September in room 601 in the Michie Building at the University of Queensland:

A talk by William Hatherell, author of the groundbreaking book about Brisbane, The Third Metropolis:

‘JJ Stable, FW Robinson and the beginnings of English at the University of Queensland’

Synopsis:
Professor JJ Stable and Associate Professor FW (‘Doc Robbie’) Robinson were the two leading figures in the establishment of English as a university discipline in Queensland through their pioneering work at the University of Queensland from the 1920s to the 1950s.… Go to Article

Wed 7th August Meeting of the 17 Group

The next meeting of the 17 Group will take place on Wednesday the 7th of August at 7 pm in unit 6 at 20 Drury St West End.… Go to Article

Book Launch: Iraqi Icicle by Bernie Dowling

A dead actress, a dead gambler, a dead professor, a dead fisherman …

With murder following his every step, determined under-achiever Steele Hill is tangled in layers of intrigue and deviousness.… Go to Article

Black, Red and White Wars

Most people in the U.S.A. have heard of Crazy Horse
that Indian folk hero who demolished Custer's force
'Sitting Bull', the Nez Perce 'Joseph' 'Cochise' 'Geronimo'
Indigenous Americans whose deeds of long ago
brought a blaze of glory to the red man in his land
But do we heed our native heroes who trod this southern strand?

… Go to Article

Politics of Repression

We Have Survived by NO FIXED ADDRESS

Politics of Repression was broadcast on Paradigm Shift on 4ZZZ fm 102.1 Friday at noon on 12 October 2012

“If you fly with the crows, you’ll get shot with the crows.”… Go to Article

Battles for the Coral Sea

Reprinted from Chapter 17 from ‘Japan to the Rescue, Australian Security around the Indonesian Archipelago during the American Century’ Heinemann, 1991, pp.… Go to Article

Sir Joseph Banks and the Question of Hemp Book Launch

Drew Hutton, Green historian and activist, will launch Sir Joseph Banks and the Question of Hemp by Dr John Jiggens at Avid Reader, Boundary Street, West End, on Tuesday April 24 at 6pm.… Go to Article

Book Launch – We built this Country

BOOK LAUNCH
WE BUILT THIS COUNTRY

BUILDERS’ LABOURERS AND THEIR UNIONS

1787 TO THE FUTURE

by Humphrey McQueen

The book should be compulsory reading for new and old union officers and organisers; it will certainly challenge them to decide whether they are workers’ representatives or ‘workplace relations practitioners’.… Go to Article

Invitation from Palestinian novelist – The Hearts of Anxious Cities

Hello everyone,

Yousef Moshmosh has kindly forwarded this invitation from a Palestinian novelist who is launching her fifth publication this Sunday 15 April at 4pm at the Brisbane City Library at 266 George Street in the city.… Go to Article

e-Books by Bernie Dowling — a Review

Some new release eBooks are worth having a look at. Thanks to the author, these reviews preserve the rich content that readers obtain when they use eReaders [hyperlinks, YouTube] I have turned off embedded ‘text enhance’ messages which I do not like (sic).… Go to Article

Review: We built this country

Review: We Built this Country

We Built This Country – Builders’ Labourers and their Unions,
by Humphrey McQueen, Ginninderra Press, Port Adelaide, 2011, 364pp, $30.00

Review by Howard Guille

This is the second book of Humphrey McQueen’s research into builders’ labourers and their unions.… Go to Article

Them ol’ Publisher blues

I came across another mainstream publisher at a conference the other day – very depressing. I don’t mind so much they are in denial that ebooks will send them spiralling into obsolescence just like epublishing sent the big record companies down the drain.… Go to Article

17 Group Wed the 2nd of November

The next Meeting of the 17 Group will be held on Wednesday the 2nd of November in unit 6 at 20 Drury St West End at 7pm on the rather unusual topic:

“Why are there histories of reading?… Go to Article

Dawn to Dusk — Reminiscences of a Rebel

By E. H. LANE (“JACK CADE”)

First Published by William Brooks & Co. (Qld) 1939

Republished by SHAPE1993

I wish to make it clear that my criticism of Labour men in these pages is not to be taken as a reflection upon their private lives and conduct.… Go to Article

New International Book Shop Bulletin

NIBS Bulletin 31st August 2011

Talk this Saturday: Ann Pettifor

‘Financing the transformation to a zero
carbon economy: Why we can afford more jobs and a better
life’

On Saturday, 3rd September, renowned economist, author and
activist Ann Pettifor will speak at NIBS on the economics of climate change and
why a tax on carbon can only be the beginning of a governmental response to the
crisis.

… Go to Article

Trifecta at 608 Brunswick Street

‘608 Brunswick Street, Fortitude Valley’

— a story about a share house in Brisbane
in the late 1970s and early 1980s

by Ian Curr

"No reason to get excited," the thief, he kindly spoke,
"There are many here among us who feel that life is but 
a joke.

… Go to Article

Streets of Our Town

Radio Station 4ZZZ (FM 102.1) is running a radiothon under the theme ‘Streets of Our Town’.

Local writer, Bernie Dowling, puts his own spin on the streets of greater Brisbane in the Crime Thriller Iraqi Icicle.… Go to Article

Book Launch – ‘Union Jack’ by Dale Lorna Jacobsen

Jack O’Leary went as a young man from
the coalfields of Wales to the railways in
Queensland. Details of his life were sketchy
– he had taken his bride to live in a navvy
camp on the Mary Valley branch line out
from Gympie; then to Ipswich working
in the Railway Workshops; then service in
World War I; and finally holding a full-time
position in the Australian Railways Union (the forerunner of the RBTU), playing a significant role in this organisation.… Go to Article

Bent Banana Books — online books coming soon

A publisher of e-books

-27.480991153.012156

… Go to Article

Vale Bob Gould

Version in the Marxist Archive (Andy Blunden)

In 1991 Bob Gould sold me his last copy of Ernie Lane’s Dawn to Dusk – Reminiscences of a Rebel.… Go to Article

Not Quite White – a review

“The day was changed, which once had been flat as a pastry board. Now it was full of talk, and laughing, and the whining of the Syrian’s mangy dog, and the jingled harness of his old blue horse.

… Go to Article

‘All Along the Watchtower’ – Memoir of a 60s revolutionary

“No reason to get excited,” the thief, he kindly spoke

There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke

But you and I, we’ve been through that, and this is not our fate

So let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late” — Bob Dylan, “All Along the Watchtower”.… Go to Article

The town that was murdered

Introduction

The capitalists are murdering towns, suburbs, farms, rivers and seas. They are killing people in wars and through environmental destruction.… Go to Article