[Editor’s note: The war between the Queensland attorney general and his judges continues unabated. This time the bill to place the Crime and Misconduct Commission under political control is criticised by retired judge Tony Fitzgerald.… Go to Article
Category: community
Mater nurses and midwives need your support TODAY
Dear friends,
as I’m sure you are aware the public health system is under intense attack – both at a national level, but also currently by the Queensland government.… Go to Article
Foco Nuevo in April
Following on from our anniversary celebrations we continue to bring great live music; this month our guest performers are Nice Verdes and Sue Wighton.… Go to Article
Cloudland Collective on the Queensland Doctors’ Dispute
The Newman government’s attempts to push public hospital doctors onto unfair individual contracts is an attack on our public hospitals and on the rights of all those who work in the Queensland public sector.… Go to Article
NASTY MEDICINE – Qld Health and the doctors dispute
The Cloudland Collective presents a community meeting….
NASTY MEDICINE –
Qld Health and the doctors’ dispute
Speakers include:
Dr Brian Senewiratne
Meeting details:
7pm Thursday 20 March
Kurilpa Hall
174 Boundary St, West End
The Newman government wants to impose contracts on doctors that would strip away vital working conditions like fatigue management and job security.… Go to Article
March in March — Brisbane
The March in March was a festive vote of no confidence in the Abbott government. (Refer https://www.facebook.com/events/501397403315324/)
The Brisbane event is part of the national March in March movement and began in Matthew Donovan’s bedroom.… Go to Article
Stephen Keim SC on how the bikie laws deny the right to work
Stephen Keim SC spoke at the meeting on ‘Punitive Populism and the neoliberal agenda of the Newman government’.
He spoke about how some of the provisions of the anti-association laws breach a fundamental human right – the right to work.… Go to Article
Toronto G20 – Main Conspiracy Group
[Editor’s Note: In the lead up to Brisbane’s G20 leaders summit in November 2014, activists would be well advised to read about the charges and how they came to be laid against activists before and during the Toronto G20.… Go to Article
The Cloudland Collective: G20 is neoliberal and dangerous
The G20 may not make decisions that can be imposed on member states. It may not have a public service working for it that can monitor to what extent member states have implemented G20 recommendations.… Go to Article
First Nations response to G20 meeting
DECOLONISATION BEFORE PROFIT
PROGRAM
Brisbane
8-14 November 2014
Saturday 8th Rally and march from Roma St Forum to Musgrave Park. Welcome to Country ceremony.
What is the meaning of ‘an aboriginal purpose’?
R v Wharton & Chitts: defence of the sacred fire — Brisbane Central Magistrates Court, 26 February 2014.
On 30 April 2012 two men, Wayne Wharton and Hamish Chitts, were arrested by armed police for ‘obstruction‘ while attending an aboriginal ceremony in Musgrave Park.… Go to Article
cops, lies and tasers
Published by aneartotheground on Feb 25, 2014
Sam Watson speaks at protest against the tasering of Sheila Oakley by Logan police.… Go to Article
brisCAN-g20 working together discussion
(FB event)
https://www.facebook.com/events/322438161214440/
Sunday, March 2, 2014
10:00am
Justice Place, 5 Abingdon Street Wooloongabba
Allies, associates, adversaries take heed!
At the first meeting of BrisCAN-G20 we asked people what they DID WANT and DID NOT WANT at actions against the G20 in Brisbane in November 2014.… Go to Article
“The Whole World is Watching”: 1982
“The Whole World is Watching” (25 minutes)
The idea of the video was to mobilise support for the Aboriginal protests planned to coincide with the Commonwealth Games in Brisbane in 1982.… Go to Article
Open letter to Australia from Manus Island detainees
Photos have now surfaced of Manus Island immigration detainees. Here, IA provides moving first-hand accounts from them speaking about their appalling conditions – along with more images detailing Australia’s shame.… Go to Article
MANUS has many victims
LOST DOCUMENTS ( by Australia) PLACE PEOPLE IN INDEFINITE DETENTION
The information debacle in immigration which has seen 10,000 names and details of refugees exposed online has many faces.… Go to Article
Support Sheila Oakley!
… Police and locals run amok on Manus Island: scores injured
Scores of asylum seekers have been injured, some seriously as gangs of armed PNG police and locals go from compound to compound attacking any asylum seekers they can find.… Go to Article
Consumers will foot protest bill of $100k a day, says Santos
SARAH-JANE TASKER
The Australian
February 15, 2014
SANTOS has warned that protests at its Narrabri Gas Project in NSW — where seven activists were arrested this week — are forcing delays and adding costs to its development that will eventually flow to the end user.… Go to Article
Cloudland Collective:- help needed
Hello all
Tuesday’s rally and march in defence of civil liberties was a tremendous success. However the LNP’s authoritarian march continues with legislation enacted this week providing for punishment of organisers of “facebook parties” and protecting police from civil liability.… Go to Article
Survival instinct – misuse of a taser
incredible! and appalling!
the survival instinct.
again an example of misuse of a taser because common sense clearly shows that it was not necessary by any normal standard to employ the taser for compliance purposes.… Go to Article
Griffith by-election 2014
This by-election was made necessary by the resignation of former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd from the federal parliament and his seat of Griffith.… Go to Article
Vulture Capitalism
I’ve just returned from Haiti and America where I’ve been filming my vulture capitalism documentary with New York film-maker Thor Neureiter (Papua New Guinea was visited late last year and Afghanistan is next on the list).… Go to Article
DOCS Rally & March in Brisbane
DOCS Rally in Brisbane
10.30 am Roma Street Forum (under the big tree opposite Court Buildings)
Thursday 13 Feb 2014
March to DOCS*
11:30 am
111 George Street, CBD
In recent weeks people have come to tent embassy meetings in Musgrave Park speaking of DOCS taking their children away.… Go to Article
Grandmothers demand apology
Grandmothers demand DOCS return stolen children on anniversary of apology
Grandmothers and families from Gunnedah will rally outside NSW Parliament House today at 12.30pm to demand an end to what they say is a new Stolen Generation of Aboriginal children.… Go to Article
Demand Justice for Sheila Oakley!
A life flows like a river Darling,
Down goes another Murri
Wise men say only fools rush in
So how do we respond to this
Especially if, only one fella’s left
from ‘Two Train Singers‘ by ian curr
Rally 11 am Saturday
15 Feb 2014
26 Jacaranda Avenue, Woodridge
March on Logan Police Station!… Go to Article
Film Screening: the Gatekeepers
Believing Women for a Culture of Peace
and Just Peace for Palestine present
FILM SCREENING 
A documentary featuring interviews with all surviving former heads of Shin Bet, the Israeli security agency whose activities and membership are closely held state secrets.… Go to Article
The town that was murdered
[Broadcast on PShift, 4zzz, fm 102.1, at noon on friday 7 feb 2014]
We drove up to a small park in Acland to meet the town’s sole surviving citizen Glen.… Go to Article
You’ve got to be Jo(h)king: History, the Left and Queensland
(This is a guest post from a friend of The Word From Struggle Street Jon)
It was the 40th anniversary of the Athens Polytechnic uprising recently.… Go to Article