Police say Eunji Ban was on her way to work at the Transcontinental Hotel at 482 George Street Brisbane at about 4 am when she was attacked and killed.… Go to Article
Category: health & safety
Public Disobedience SAVE the AMU (Clinic 2) and Roma St Sexual Health
Public Disobedience against LNP Government proposed closure of the AIDS Medical Unity rebranded as Clinic 2.
Time: 4:30 PM on Wed 27 March 2013.… Go to Article
Tunnel vision on safety
The Airport Link tunnel project in Queensland. Picture: Liam Kidston Source: The Australian
FOR Andrew Ramsay, it was the plethora of shiny, green, energy drink cans that told him all was not right on Brisbane’s Airport Link tunnel project.
Richard Laco RIP – minutes silence for killed construction worker outside building site.
The Construction Safety Campaign are organsing a wreath laying and minutes silence for Richard Laco, the worker killed last week on the Laing O’Rourke building site at Kings Cross.… Go to Article
Did i mention the DUST show?
CFMEU: Discrimination not acceptable
THE first sitting of the new federal parliament will see the Abbott government move to reinstate the Australian Building and Construction Commission.
Workcover StopWork – what now?
Under camouflage of anti-bikie (accepted by the Labor party) and sexual offenders legislation, Qld Attorney General, Jarrod Blejie, took away workers rights to a safe work environment and took away rights to privacy of their health history and cover.… Go to Article
‘Not Guilty’
This is the Paradigm Shift broadcasting on 4ZZZ fm 102.1 This show is called ‘Not Guilty’ and is about political defence – the story begins…
Vale Clarke and Dawe
On Wednesday, 26 June 2013, the Australian Labor Party killed political satire in Australia.… Go to Article
Why the sacred fire is important to everyone
A week ago, Jagera elder, Kevin, was kicked out of his housing commission home. Tonight Kevin is in jail for re-lighting the sacred fire.… Go to Article
AIDS Medical Unit rebranded as Clinic 2
Public Disobedience against LNP Government proposed closure of the AIDS Medical Unit rebranded as Clinic 2.Clinic 2 provides care for people living with human immunodeficiency virus (PLHIV).… Go to Article
Council’s case against Homer reaches new depths
“Art is not a mirror held up to reality
but a hammer with which to shape it.”… Go to Article
The People’s Voice – Newman breaks pledge to keep royal children’s hospital
NEWMAN BREAKS PLEDGE TO KEEP ROYAL CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL
The government has kept the public in the dark about closure of the -Royal Children’s Hospital
• Brisbane North will be deprived of the readily accessible and comprehensive paediatric accident & emergency service currently provided by Royal Children’s.… Go to Article
Abigroup sends in agent provocateur
Mr Carnegie is being charged with breaching a court order made by construction company AbiGroup on September 5 2012 which purportedly prohibited him from coming within 100m of a construction site.… Go to Article
1000 Warrior March, Brisbane
We assembled at 12 noon, Saturday 9th Feb Musgrave Park at the tent embassy and lit the sacred fire. At 1pm about fifty (50) people marched to the indigenous all stars game at Lang park over the river.… Go to Article
Why QLD’s coal and gas boom matters to you, Brisbane, Wed Nov 14, 5.45pm
For those of you in Brisbane and able to attend, I look forward to seeing you at this free public forum tomorrow evening.… Go to Article
Rallies against Qld Government
Qld Teacher Union rally on Tuesday 21 August
Qld Uncut rally Thursday 23rd August (Social services organisations campaign)
Combined Unions rally (will be very large!!)… Go to Article
Opposed to forced fluoridation ? – Please sign the Qld Parliament E-Petitions
If you are opposed to the forced fluoridation of Queensland public water supplies – please sign one, or preferably all three of these E- petitions – it is simple and takes only a few minutes.… Go to Article
Back to the Future – The Shape of Things to Come – The Queensland Labour Movement Under Conservative Governments – Then and Now!
BLHA Symposium: Call for Papers and Participants
BLHA is planning an October symposium which will deal with the Queensland labour movement’s activism, challenges and selected disputes under conservative governments.… 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??
… Go to ArticleMy 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.
Edge of Darkness: damned walls, floods and landslides
Editor’s Note: This is one of a series of articles under the heading ‘Edge of Darkness’ authored by Trevor Berrill (Sustainable Energy Systems Consultant & Educator) and Ian Curr (BSc UQ Grad Dip ATAX).… Go to Article
Vale Alistair Hulett — eulogy by David Rovics
“There’s a man in my bed I used to love him
His kisses used to take my breath away
There’s a man in my bed I hardly know him
I wipe his face and hold his hand
And watch him as he slowly fades away” — Alistair Hulett, “He Fades Away“
Alistair Hulett has has died.… Go to Article
Merak Refugee Supporters Detained
This article has beee taken down upon request to protect refugee advocates involved.… Go to Article
How a union survives
“There are plenty of examples of socialists who are not Marxists; but to be a Marxist, you have to be a socialist” — H.… Go to Article
Who will save Yungaba — ‘the land of the sun’?
by Ian Curr
“Job and me and Jesus sittin’
Underneath the Indooroopilly bridge
Watchin’ that blazin’ sun go down
Behind the tall tree’d mountain ridge
The land’s our heritage and spirit
Here the rightful culture’s Black
and we sittin’ here just wonderin’
When we get the land back”
— Kev Carmody ‘Thou shalt not steal’
If you walk underneath the Storey bridge you can see what has happened.… Go to Article
Sustainable Homes Program – Oct, 2009
Location: 69 Thomas St., West End
Dates/Time: Saturday, 17 Oct, 9am to 3.30pm
Sunday, 18 Oct, 9am to 1pm
Cost: $120 per person (cash only)
The Paradigm Shift on Food, Conflict …
The Paradigm Shift on Food
eliza, thomas and sarah
September 22nd, 2009
This week ‘The Paradigm Shift’ looked at food, production and consumption generally.… Go to Article
‘Killing no Murder’
The factory-owners of the time formed a “trade union” to resist the factory legislation, the so-called “National Association for the Amendment of the Factory Laws”, based in Manchester, which collected a sum of more than £50,000 in March 1855 from contributions on the basis of 2 shillings per horse-power, to meet the legal costs of members prosecuted by the factory inspectors and conduct their cases on behalf of the Association.… Go to Article
Victorian Union’s rally to demand "Best Practice" National OHS Laws
by Peter Curtis AEU
7,000 workers marched on the Victorian Parliament, and a further thousand in Geelong, calling on the Brumby ALP Government to pressure their federal counterparts to make the best Occupational Health and Safety laws possible through the national ‘harmonisation’ process.… Go to Article
Australia’s ‘Construction Stasi’
by Humphrey McQueen
Dare Australia’s Labor government gaol Adelaide builders’ labourer, Ark Tribe?
Tribe’s crime is that he refuses to attend a secret hearing of the Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC).… Go to Article
Abolish the Australian Building & Construction Commission
Click on the recording of Julia Gillard’s speech to the ACTU congress and reply by ACTU Secretary Jeff Lawrence and while it is playing read the explanation below.… Go to Article