The exhibition was opened on 6 April 2006.… Go to Article
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Editorial Comment on current issues
Something remarkable is happening in Indian country
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
No union affiliation with ALP!
Union Members
I have just read the online petition about “Community and Public Sector Union Affiliation” at: http://www.PetitionOnline.com/cpsu/
The petition says,
To: Stephen Jones, National Secretary, CPSU
As members of the CPSU, we request that the National Secretary obtain the opinion of members by plebiscite on the following question:
“Do you support the CPSU having a policy of no formal affiliations with any political party?”… Go to Article
Change without a strong Workers Movement?
A recent petition to G8 Summit stated:
… Go to Article‘HURRY, only 72 hours to help fight for the end of world poverty’.
Pig City: ‘they shut it down, they pulled it down’?
How does the song go?
Watch the butcher shine his knives
And this town is full of battered wives
…………………………………….
They shut it down
They pulled it down
They shut it down
They pulled it downRound and round, up and down
Through the streets of your town
Everyday I make my way
Through the streets of your town
— Brisbane rock band the Go-Betweens
commentary of Brisbane in the 1970s.… Go to Article
‘New Labor’ or solidarity?
In 1980 when Howard was Treasurer, the Fraser Government tried to tax mining workers on the benefit they received from subsidised housing in remote Central Queensland.… Go to Article
Philistines no longer at the gates…
Academics, Hookham and MacLennan, threatened with the sack!
Labor’s Industrial Relations Policy — May, 2007
Publisher’s Note: The following is a summary of the Industrial Relations (IR) Policy accepted at the National Labor Party Conference in April 2007.… Go to Article
Unions have lost rights at work — will workers lose all?
In the lead up to the ALP national conference it is claimed that “The ALP is strongly defending workers RIGHTS at WORK”
This is not true in any sense.… Go to Article
Ban Bjelke
“The Day of the Political Street March is over, don’t apply for a permit you won’t get one” — Premier of Queensland, Johannes Bjelke-Petersen on 4 September 1977.… Go to Article
40th anniversary of the victory of the 1967 referendum
The headlines on Friday, March 23, 2007 read “Four acquitted over Palm Island riot” [The Age], “Not Guilty” [The Courier Mail] and so on.… Go to Article
Refugees
In 1976 a group of 31 Chilean families were taken to the Wacol Hostel in Brisbane. This was to be the basis of a story written by one of the refugees, Marcial Parada, in “Vuelo Lan Chile 1131” [Flight from Chile in 1976].… Go to Article
“He can’t work, he is useless”
The QUT HR spin doctors put out propaganda with slogans like “Real people, Real service” when this institution is about “Real Money and Real Business“.… Go to Article
Mulrunji Campaign Strategy
A number of proposals were put to a large community meeting at Jagara Hall in West End on Tuesday, 6 Feb 2007.… Go to Article
Vale Phil Perrier
Phil Perrier’s send off was held on Friday, the 2nd of February, 2007.
Phil was a worker, political activist, artist, brother, partner, father and friend.… Go to Article
Invasion Day 2007 — sounds of silence
… Go to Article“The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but people have a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box.
Beattie and Bush send in more troops!
During the period (1960s — 2000s) mining companies, Queensland State Governments, and the Queensland Police Department have turned Aurukun into a war zone for the Wik people of Far North Queensland.… Go to Article
Land, Justice, Worker Control
The Queensland Labor Government is mired in secrecy and guilt over its treatment of Aboriginal people on Palm Island.… Go to Article
No Justice for Mulrunji
In a cynical move before Christmas, the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) released a media statement on 14 December 2006 to say the death of Mulrunji was an accident.… Go to Article
More Murris in Jail — killer cop runs free
Mulrunji’s killing by Queensland police officer Chris Hurley rates only a footnote in the annals of justice.
Footnote number seven (7) in the twenty (20) page judgement of the Court of Appeal reads:
… Go to ArticleInquest into the death of Mulrunji, Coroner’s Court, Cor 2857/04(9), 27 September 2006, Clements M (Acting State Coroner).
WorkChoices: an analysis of union legal and parliamentary strategies
The graph above shows the rise and fall of union membership in Australia over the past 100 years.… Go to Article
Yet another crisis in Lebanon?
As Australia and US prepare to increase troop
Looking out on Jaggera and Yugambeh Land
This is the view from Mistake Mountains of Aboriginal land… Go to Article
Antonioni’s films “The Night” and “The Eclipse”
If you are worried about a new US government starting to bomb Iran or Korea perhaps you may wish to see Antonioni’s “The Eclipse” which is the final film of the trilogy, “The Adventure” and “The Night” set in Italy in the 1960s when industrialisation, alienation and the threat of nuclear war were on many people’s minds.… Go to Article
Where to, the anti-war movement?
US election poll on Iraq war
The day before the recent mid-term elections in the US, I asked two American graduate students studying at the University of Queensland in Brisbane what their view of that election was, would they vote, and if so, how?… Go to Article
Not Guilty
People often criticise me for living in the 1970s.
Perhaps I do dwell on the past, but that is where I was and where I come from, the 1970s.… Go to Article
Vale Wendy Lowenstein
Wendy displayed the qualities of old communists in Australia whose roots lay in the depression in the 1930s— committment to workers struggle and organisation.… Go to Article
Palm Petition
A Meeting was held on Friday 6 October 2006 AT THE JAGARA HALL MUSGRAVE PARK to organise the ongoing campaign for Justice for Aboriginees in Brisbane and Queensland
… Go to ArticleMurrinyi Doomadgee, 36, died in the Palm Island watchhouse on November 19, 2004, just hours after his arrest after he had said words critical of police (see sidebar for article: Black Deaths in custody — what has the Beattie Government ever done?
Black Deaths in Custody — what have Australian governments ever done?
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
Rally for Peace in the Middle East
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