Category: Environment

Flood and Climate Change

PShift Broadcast (4ZZZ) & 4PR Podcast on 8 Feb 2013 

This land is mine
Yeah I signed on the dotted line
Campfires on the creek bed
Bank breathing down my neck
They won't take it away
They won't take it away
They won't take it away from me
by kev carmody

This is an interview with Trevor Berrill about the effects of 2013 floods on mines and energy infrastructure in Queensland.… Go to Article

The 17 Group – Alienation

The June meeting of the 17 Group will take place on Wednesday the 6th of June at 7 pm in unit 6 at number 20 Drury St, West End and will be addressed by the writer Lesley Synge, who will read/perform 17 poems influenced by radicalism, the first being a meditation on Marx’s Theory of Alienation inspired by the discovery of a bundle of workers’ ‘Sick notes’ at an abandoned coal mine in Central Qld.… Go to Article

PShift: The Story of Coal – beauty and the beast

Anna came to this country and now she is left alone
Her man had so much sickness he left some in their home
It was just for a while until they got on their feet 
but the mine was a life sentence
It was them they sentenced me
             —Phil Monsour "Wittonoom"

Interviews with Clive Palmer & Drew Hutton
[Editor’s note: This show was broadcast on 4ZZZ fm 102.1 on 7 Dec 2012.… Go to Article

Is West Papua being split up to marginalise the Papuan people?

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West Papua (called Irian Jaya by the expansionist, military-backed Indonesian regime) is rich in natural mineral and precious metals resources, making it a target for foreign trans-national corporations such as Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc.… Go to Article

SPECIAL INVITATION from WILPF – ‘”The Rising Tide of Climate Change”‘

Hello All,
The Qld Branch of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom are pleased to announce that our special guest at our Sunday November 11 Meeting will be Dr Alice Aruhe’eta Pollard from the Solomon Islands.… Go to Article

When will Spring rain?

This is how I see it

Black throated pied butcher bird
picking up sticks
sees bicyclist
Pied strikes like a drone in Yemen
2 metre tall cyclist
Takes refuge
under Poinciana
Juveniles join in
Kamakase air raids
triangular strafing with clapping beaks
30 centimetre birds can cower a man

Takes off helmet to expose every grey hair
now sitting on dew covered grass
afraid to leave or to shout out
Raid after raid comes in and then…

Two women with pram appear
on Milne Lane

Beautiful pink baby inside sucking buttons of shirt,
Grey-hair tells them of attacks,
One woman, the mother’s mate,
says how territorial butcher birds are

Shared millisecond of concern
by all three for pink baby
blinking in morning sunlight
Mother and friend confident birds will give pram right of passage
down Parooba Avenue

Grey-hair takes flight down the road
only to come across an old lady on the path
who admonishes him
saying “Should you be on this path?… Go to Article

Failing Energy Policy and Climate Change – Why can’t Australia get it right?

Failing Energy Policy and Climate Change – Why can’t Australia get it right??

My take on this is that what we are seeing in Australia is a complete failure to implement good long term energy policy to support the development of the renewable energy industry (RE) and energy efficiency (EE) industries.

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Campbell Newman and Bligh – a ‘quinella’ of losers

“In the courtroom of honor, the judge pounded his gavel
To show that all’s equal and that the courts are on the level
And that the strings in the books ain’t pulled and persuaded
And that even the nobles get properly handled”

In horse racing, when you pick two winners in any order it is called a ‘quinella’.… Go to Article

“Urban Wildlife – The good the bad and the just plain ugly” by Adrian Caneris

From: WPSQ Brisbane Branch
Sent: Monday, November 21, 2011 9:45 PM
To: brisbane
Subject: “Urban Wildlife – The good the bad and the just plain ugly” by Adrian Caneris

Hi,

This Tuesday night we have our last presentation for the year “Urban Wildlife – The good the bad and the just plain ugly” By Adrian Caneris, Managing Director, Biodiversity Assessment and Management, 7.30pm, at RGSQ.… Go to Article

BHP in front line as Marines take Darwin

fyi
contention & collusion
betwixt & between the imperium
& its pretender are looking more than a tad hot
jim

BHP in front line as Marines take Darwin
By John Helmer

MOSCOW – The share price of OM Holdings, one of the few pure manganese miners in the world to be listed on an international stock exchange, fell 9% the day after the Australian and United States governments signed a new military pact, inviting 2,500 US Marines to a base in Darwin, and threatening China with as yet undisclosed new military measures.… Go to Article

Remarkable scenes of nonviolent resistance to in the face pepper spraying at Occupy U.C. Davis, California

From: Ciaron OReilly
Sent: Monday, November 21, 2011 7:56 PM
To: ENGOXFORDCWCliveMeena ENGOXFORDCWCliveMeena
Subject: Remarkable scenes of nonviolent resistance to in the face pepper spraying at Occupy U.C.… Go to Article