Telecom / Telstra
First they corporatised it — 1982 (Fraser)
then they did a partial sale — 1993-96 (Keating)
then they privatised it — 1996 (Howard)
then they sacked the workers — 2014 (Abbott)
… and the Labor Party-in-government sold QANTAS which is going to sack ….… Go to Article
A SPECIAL FOUR CORNERS / THE AUSTRALIAN NEWSPAPER INVESTIGATION
Monday 10 February 2014
The Israeli army is both respected and feared as a fighting force.… Go to Article
Jonathan Ogden (1970-2014)
By Jaime Mejia
Jonathan Ogden – socialist, unionist and former member of the ISO and Socialist Alternative died of a sudden stroke in his New Farm home sometime between 6 and 10 February 2014.… Go to Article
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
(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
Gomeroi culture and heritage pays the price for bungling and cultural management failure. Gomeroi people implore Minister Hunt to declare an emergency stay of works to protect and investigate Whitehaven’s actions.
Opinion
26 Jan 2014
What do Israel and Australia have in common?Australia’s crimes during its colonial history resemble those of Israel.… Go to Article
[Editor’s Note: It was claimed by a speaker at a recent civil liberties meeting [https://soundcloud.com/ian-curr/q-a#t=31:30] that investigative journalism of the ABC’s Kerry O’Brien stopped Abbott from wining the 2009 federal election and that papers like The Guardian brought down Margaret Thatcher.… Go to Article
Is anyone interested in the union member’s perspective these days?
… there was no attempt in this article by Headless Thomas [The Australian] to 
find out what actually happened … no attempt to contact the 23 union members suspended and disciplined by BHP @ http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/policy/union-official-blows-whistle-on-cfmeu/story-fn59noo3-1226811602443… Go to Article
You are welcome to attend an upcoming meeting on civil liberties in Queensland.
Title: Queensland’s war on Civil Liberties.
7pm Tuesday 28 January
Jagera Arts Centre
121 Cordelia Street, South Brisbane
Three prominent activists, central to the 1970’s civil liberties campaign in Queensland, speak about the resistance to Bjelke-Petersen’s authoritarism.… Go to Article
“We will re-build everything on the basis of resistance and Sharon must be aware of the resistance of the Jenin camp for all his life”
— young girl standing in the rubble of Jenin in 2002.… Go to Article
I want to try to spend tonight inspiring some of you to become reporters. What’s in a name? I use reporter because the word, journalist, is a too lofty for me – a name popularised by the self-important – journalists!… Go to Article
[Editors Note: No one talks about workers democracy anymore … why is that? Do people even know what it is?… Go to Article
[Editor’s Note: As readers may know, there were many attempts by the Murdoch and Tory press to discredit Arthur Scargill when he was leader of the 1983 Miners Strike against Thatcher.… Go to Article
Gomeroi community demands Federal Environment Minister Hunt protect family graves from Whitehaven mine
Gomeroi community demands Federal Environment Minister Hunt protect family graves from Whitehaven mine
Gomeroi Elders and community members have issued a statement today (attached) imploring Federal Environment Minister Hunt to protect their ancestor’s graves at the Maules Creek mine operated by Whitehaven in regional NSW.… Go to Article
Be it climate change or not, this unseasonal cyclone has caused widespread destruction to the South Pacific archipelago of Tonga. The people are resilient and will re-build after the destruction caused by the storm.… Go to Article
(Uncharacteristically, overnight this story has already slipped from view on the Guardian pages! Such a thoroughly well researched and extensive article would normally be there on their front page for quite a while.… Go to Article
Coal Miners invade Gamilaraay country
Traditional owner Paul Spearim speaks with environmental engineer Trevor Berrill and PShift’s Ian Curr about moves by Whitehaven Coal, Idemitsu, Boggabri Coal and Santos to invade Gamilaraay country and to destroy the environment in the process.… Go to Article
Dear Refugee Supporters,
We are seeing changed conditions in the MITA (Melbourne immigration Transit Accommodation) which are clearly designed to frighten and intimidate the people inside.… Go to Article
On the 19th of July 2013, four peace activists were arrested outside the Rockhampton army barracks and charged for contravening a police direction.… Go to Article
They are still around though their culture changed
No battle scars or initiation marks on their black chest
New battle fields to enter and fights to conquer
Still Aboriginal warriors are amongst the best.… Go to Article
History is an angel being blown backwards into the future
He said: History is a pile of debris
And the angel wants to go back and fix things
To repair the things that have been broken
But there is a storm blowing from Paradise
And the storm keeps blowing the angel backwards into the future
And this storm, this storm is called Progress.… Go to Article
what began, as i saw it, as an historical storm in a tea-cup became, due to the frantic efforts of a few people, a lesson and rebuttal on rewriting history or the attempt thereof.… Go to Article
Towards Peace – A workers Journey (PDF) by Phil O’Brien and Bernie Dowling [SHAPE – Social History Publishing Enterprise with LeftPress]
Tunnelling through the night, the trains pass in a splendour of power, with a sound like thunder shaking the orchards, waking the young from a dream, scattering like glass the old men's sleep; laying a black trail over the still bloom of the orchards.… Go to Article
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