The Australian government introduced mandatory detention of refugees in the early 1990s, and one has to ask has it learned anything but in the intervening years?… Go to Article
Category: Recent
Red line for Rafah
Building Solidarity with Cuba
Extra! Extra!
From Australia to Cuba with Love
SPECIAL EVENT
Wynnum Walk
From the Mangroves to the Jetty
10 am Sunday, 23rd June
Meeting at the Wynnum Mangrove Boardwalk Carpark
(Click here to see on Google Maps)
Join us for a walk this Sunday morning with the Cuban Ambassador, Tani Dieguez to put Cuba in the public eye.… Go to Article
Margaret Reynolds call on the Australian Parliament
Anatomy of an accident
Review by Caroline Moorehead
A Day in the Life of Abed Salama
by Nathan Thrall (Metropolitan)
Nonfiction
In 2012, a catastrophic traffic collision in Jerusalem left a school bus filled with Palestinian children on fire for more than thirty minutes before emergency workers arrived.… Go to Article
Rosemary’s Art
Rosemary has asked me to say some words about her exhibition and of course I said “yes”, but I made a mental note that I would say upfront that I am not an artist and the little I know about art I have gotten from Rosemary herself.… Go to Article
Shameful allies
On Jonson Street last Wednesday, I saw that the Bohemian apartment development billboard had been painted white and carried the following slogans, “Stop Arming Israel” and “Stop Gaza Genocide!”.… Go to Article
The long march for Palestine
Nine months, twenty rallies, fifty thousand lives … this must end
A rally of 500 people came out in Brisbane Magan-djin on 15 June 2024 as part of the global solidarity movement for Palestine.… Go to Article
Australia to Cuba with Love- week 2
Australia-Cuba Friendship Society (Brisbane)
From Australia to Cuba with Love 2024
June 1st to July 26th
Week 2 wrap
Dear Ian
We are two weeks into the campaign and registrations numbers are building.… Go to Article
Discourses on Australia to Cuba with Love campaign
As part of the from Australia to Cuba with Love campaign currently under way in Australia and in Cuba, Sue, Lachlan and I had some interesting conversations on a 60 kms ride to Nudgee Beach and back.… Go to Article
End Australian complicity in weapons deals with Israel
The known unknowns
Firstly, let me tell you what we don’t know. How does an obscure engineering firm in Tingala in Brisbane get to be part of the global arms trade with Israel.… Go to Article
Boeing – merchants of death
For a number of months a group of us has held a weekly vigil outside Boeing in Brisbane city to highlight their complicity in the genocide in Palestine.… Go to Article
From Australia to Cuba with Love 2024
First week wrap
From Australia to Cuba with Love 2024
June 1st to July 26th
We have had a great start to our campaign.… Go to Article
Israel’s detention, torture and massacre of Palestinians
Sadly , Israel’s unlawful detention and torture of Palestinians has been going on for as long as I can remember.
Over the years, WBT has recorded the complicity of Australian governments that have ignored written complaints and petitions taken up by Australian friends and families of these prisoners.… Go to Article
Global solidarity for Palestine
From the red line banner that thousands held around the White House in Washington to the millions that marched in Sana, the capital of Yemen, Palestine solidarity is now a global phenomenon.… Go to Article
The Cuban connection in the ‘Brissie to Bay’ ride 2024
This is our third Brissie to the Bay ride that takes in amazing vistas of Moreton Bay from Wynnum to Redland Bay.… Go to Article
For the dead are many …
The University of Queensland has been underpaying its workers. This is what the National Tertiary Education Union has to say on the matter in its Media Release on 28 May 2024 :
University of Queensland staff suffer ‘staggering’ $8m wage theft
“The scale of the wage theft at UQ is staggering.… Go to Article
The Taste of Things
In the north, not a house still stands, nor a tree under which to seek shade – quote from a Palestinian in Raffah.… Go to Article
Government lies, spying and war provocations
Alternative News Radio program – Government lies, spying and war provocations.
(Music fades in and out)
Andrew 1. Good morning listeners.… Go to Article
From the UQ Senate – a report by graduate repesentative
We thank Lee Duffield, the graduate representative in the University of Queensland senate, for his report about the Gaza student encampment at that university, the only one in Queensland to have a tents set up during the genocide in Gaza. … Go to Article
Australian toxic politics
In the immigration debate, toxic politics on both sides – stirring hate and fear of “others” is a last resort for politicians devoid of ideas, imagination and humanity.… Go to Article
JFP June events in Magan-djin
Biden’s gambit: a tale of fish rotting
“The United States will never start a war” – US President John F Kennedy’s ‘peace speech’ in 1963.
“A fish rots from the head down” – Ancient proverb.… Go to Article
Nouvelle-Caledonie: Le liberation de Kanaky
“Ce souffle venu des ancêtres”
[This breath came from ancestors]
— Jean-Marie Tjibaou
In August 1975, I visited an island in the Pacific called Ouvea which is part of the Loyalty Islands group to the east of New Caledonia.… Go to Article
Vintage Reds Diary
What’s on this Week
1 Vintage Reds Monthly Meeting –
· Climate Denial, Union Busting and the Atlas Network
· Hear the latest from the Unionists for Palestine Activists Group
2 Foco Nuevo – Friday night music, politics and friendship
3 Suggested Reading – Kanaky and Independence
1 Vintage Reds Meeting
Thursday 6th June at 10am @ the QCU,
16 Peel Street, South Brisbane
‘Climate Denial, Union Busting and the Atlas Network’?… Go to Article
Biden’s last stand on Palestine
US President Joe Biden urged Hamas to accept the latest Israeli ceasefire and hostage-release proposal. The proposal includes three phases to end the war, release Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners, and begin reconstruction in the Gaza Strip. … Go to Article
Solidarity on the Move
Building Solidarity with Cuba |
Australia to Cuba with Love 2024 Our annual campaign starts tomorrow (1st June) with a launch at the Brisbane Botanic Gardens at 10 am. |
Weapons trade with Israel
Lots of people have been asking so here is a step-by-step guide on how to find information on the direct export and import of weapons between Israel and Australia
https://x.com/davidshoebridge/status/1795686180111187983?s=46&t=psps5jXeHvNaD5ruc_AYBw… Go to Article
MP’s response to Rafah Massacre
I live in the seat of Griffith, which is a federal government electorate in the inner city area of Brisbane’s East.… Go to Article
The Shoah after Gaza
In 1977, a year before he killed himself, the Austrian writer Jean Améry came across press reports of the systematic torture of Arab prisoners in Israeli prisons.… Go to Article