In the evening the dry wind blows from the hills and across the plains
I close my eyes and I’m standing in a boat on the sea a-gain
And I’m holding that long turtle spear and I feel I’m close now
To where it must be and my island home is waiting for me
And my island home my island home my island home is waiting for me
– My Island Home, The Warumpi Band
The Townsville Correctional Centre replaced the old Townsville Prison at Stuart Creek.… Go to Article
This year, 2008, everyone has been talking about the fall of the stock markets around the world — “more than a third wiped off the market” says the ABC’s finance pundit, Alan Kohler.… Go to Article
Phil Monsour sings “The Promised Land” which is based on Martin Luther King’s speech about Civil Rights in America (‘I had a dream’) which you can view below.… Go to Article
An hour after a Wynnum magistrate found Lisa Bridle and I not guilty of “disobeying a police direction”, police rang my home to let me know that Raytheon did not wish to proceed with willful damages charges resulting form another (our third) exorcism at their Brisbane offices.… Go to Article
Jumping Fences invites you to our next Foco Nuevo concert. We aim to provide an ecelctic mix of musical styles while continuing the folk tradition of highlighting lyrics which reflect the breadth of contemporary life.… Go to Article
Radical simply means ‘grasping things at the root.
- Angela Davis
“These students believe in democracy and most importantly they believe in the maximum participation for the individual” – Brian Laver (1967)
There have been a line of radical bookshops in Brisbane since Mick Healy, Dave Surplus and Gilbert (Geordie) Burns set up the Anvil Bookshop in a rundown premises in Elizabeth street in Brisbane in 1935.… Go to Article
What a strange period of the Left we are living through.
The latest Left paper, Direct Action, claims that it is ‘for socialism in the 21st century’, I am not sure what that is supposed to mean but I doubt that it is true.… Go to Article
You are cordially invited to the launch of Phil Monsour’s new album the empire’s new clothes .
7.00 pm
Saturday, 24 May 2008
AHIMSA HOUSE, West End (near the West End Primary School)
All proceeds go to the besieged Gaza strip through Union Aid Abroad – APHEDA’s Gaza Emergency Appeal
In the spirit of the songs on the CD the launch will be a fund raising dinner for Union Aid Abroad APHEDA to assist people in the besieged Gaza strip.… Go to Article
***Editor’s Note***
The ‘Hainanese Chicken Club’ is a lunchtime social gathering of friends who work in Brisbane City. It is convened by Lachlan Hurse.… Go to Article
Watch the butcher shine his knives
And this town is full of battered wives
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They shut it down
They pulled it down
They shut it down
They pulled it down
Round 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
What a strange period of the Left we are living through. 
Here is an interesting article and couple of short video clips on the manipulation of medical treatment by the pharmaceutical industry.… Go to Article 
