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: Unions
Wrong city, wrong country
Before all the others to come, there were some unexceptional flowers hand-wrapped in white tissue paper. A breeze whispered up Albert Street.… Go to Article
Strengthened Pride
“It was a pretty brutal place, but there was no slavery in Australia”
– Prime Minister Scott Morrison
“This is about Aunty Dawn Daylight’s experiences as a child slave at the All Hallows’ convent in Brisbane in the 1950’s and 60’s.… 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.
Stop Work at University of QLD
***STOP PRESS*** Stop Work from 12:30pm on Tuesday 19 November 2013 in the Great Court at the University of Qld ***STOP PRESS***
Members of the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) voted unanimously yesterday for further industrial action at the University of Queensland (UQ).… Go to Article
Barwick and Kerr
A revival of interest in the dismissal of the Whitlam government on 11 November 1975 is focusing on who advised the Governor-General, Sir John Kerr.… Go to Article
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.
No to Newman. No to uranium mining.
In 1977 Bjelke-Petersen tried to stop the anti-uranium movement by banning
street marches. Unionists and students launched a defiant campaign which
gained community support.… Go to Article
“Taking to the Streets” Exhibition
“Taking to the Streets – two decades that changed Brisbane 1965 – 1985” – Museum of Brisbane Exhibition 2006.
The exhibition was opened on 6 April 2006.… Go to Article
Film: Manufacturing Dissent
Source: Thanks to The Radical Times Archive for Debra Beattie’s doco Manufacturing Dissent.
“History is an angel being blown backwards into the future
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
Rally for Rights
… Are we there yet?
Are we there yet
Now how we gonna get there, we don’t even have boats
And how we gonna get there when we’re not winning votes
We will never get there while the pollys speak their spokes
Garden party circus clowns wooing kids with their jokes
Another death in custody to a suicide fatality
This is how it’s supposed to be, in a capitalist society
People on the top and people on the bottom
And people in the middle who don’t wanna know what happened
– The Last Kinection – ‘Are We There Yet’ featuring Simone Stacey
by Julian Burnside
It is a great privilege to be giving a talk in honour of Barry Jones.… Go to Article
Qld University academics and staff instigate work bans over pay dispute
Academics at the University of Queensland have begun industrial action in a
campaign for better pay and conditions.
Lecturers and professional staff have voted in support of work bans and stoppages.… Go to Article
Lost film of the street marches
History is an angel being blown backwards into the future
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
Who will bring the good news after the sale of Australia Post?
I SPRANG to the stirrup, and Joris, and he;
I galloped, Dirck galloped, we galloped all three;
‘Good speed!’ cried the watch, as the gate-bolts undrew;
‘Speed!’… Go to Article
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
wal king leightons
by Humphrey McQueen
Dickens got it half wrong in Bleak House when he has detective Bucket observe that, while murder could be done by amateurs, thieving needed professionals.… Go to Article
Resurrection of powerful building regulator under examination
by Steve Riggall,
Reporter & Co-ordinator
4ZZZ News fm 102.1 Brisbane
Fri, Sep 20, 2013 – 12:51pm
After striding into office after a comfortable election victory, Mr Abbott and his team are invoking that magical political word much beloved by many politicians: mandate.
Brisbane remembers Sabra and Chatilla
In 1982 there was a demonstration in Brisbane King George Square to protest the Sabra and Chatilla Massarce [Arabic: مذبحة صبرا وشاتيلا.]… Go to Article
Struggle for Kanak Independence
“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
Productivity of what and for whom?
by Humphrey McQueen
Musical chairs among the parliamentary cretins brought no change to the gabble around ‘productivity’. As Rudd’s Education Minister, Gillard had spelt out that her policy even for pre-schoolers was to drive up productivity.… Go to Article
Verdict in Bob Carnegie Case
“A derelict house slumps to one side
Poster peels on a bolted gate
Its faded but not forgotten
“An injury to one is an injury to all”
— ‘View From A Wooden Chair’
Lachlan Hurse and Sue Monk
Federal Circuit Court of Australia,
Cnr North Quay and Tank Streets, BRISBANE.… Go to Article
Ken Loach’s new film: The Spirit of ’45
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QNU protests axing of experienced nurses to make way for graduates
The Queensland Nurses Union have been informed that up to 140 experienced nurses in the Metro North district will lose their jobs to open up positions for 140 graduate nurses.… Go to Article
What has the anti-globalisation movement achieved?
‘First they globalised management and now they’ve globalised workers’ – long time unionist and economic refugee
I attended the inaugural anti- G20 meeting at Trades & Labor Council (QCU) Building in South Brisbane on Thursday 18 July 2013.… Go to Article
Foco: Student Worker Alliance in Brisbane in the late 1960s
This is a talk given by Peter Cross at a meeting of the 17 Group on 7 May 2013 about the Secretary of the Trades and labour Council, Alexander Macdonald’s role was in building links between the Trades Hall and the student movement.… Go to Article
Building Workers celebrate May Day in May!
“We all got it wrong!” my friend told me over the phone after he saw the 6 o’clock news on TV.… Go to Article
Foco Nuevo: May Day Special !!
Friday 3rd May, 2013.
8.00 p.m.
May Day Special !!
Kurilpa Hall at 174 Boundary Street West End.
Thanks to everyone who made our April event so enjoyable.… Go to Article