Category: Unions

Campbell Newman sets up his own union watchdog

 As soon as you're born they make you feel small
By giving you no time instead of it all
Till the pain is so big you feel nothing at all
They hurt you at home and they hit you at school
They hate you if you're clever and they despise a fool
Till you're so crazy you can't follow their rules
When they've tortured and scared you for twenty odd years
Then they expect you to pick a career
Keep you doped on religion and sex and TV
And you think you're so clever and classless and free
But you're still peasants as far as I can see
There's room at the top they are telling you still
But first you must learn how to smile as you kill
If you want to be like the folks on the hill
If you want to be a hero, well, just follow me
— John Lennon 'Working Class Hero'

The Attorney General said today that the LNP government “ will ..… Go to Article

Face to Face with Fukushima

Face to Face with Fukushima: Brisbane
Public Forum
March 12, 2013 11am
The Premier’s Hall -Qld Parliament House
Alice St @ George St, Brisbane

As the Qld government makes motions to open a uranium mining industry in this state, the anniversary of the ongoing disaster at Fukushima serves as a timely reminder of the dangers of the nuclear industry…

The Fukushima Delegation will share firsthand accounts and experiences of the Fukushima nuclear disaster that occurred following the Tsunami that devastated East Japan on March 11, 2011.

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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

‘OPERATION SATOUR’: The 1971 Springbok Tour of Queensland

‘OPERATION SATOUR’: The 1971 Springbok Tour of Queensland

Queensland Police Headquarters: Sunday 24 February 2013: 10.30 am to 12.30 pm

Inquiries to : Ms Lisa Jones (Police Museum Curator) on 3364 6425

Time

Speaker

(Participants’ biographical details overleaf)

Topic or comment

1030

Mr David Fagan

Chairperson

1035

Professor Mark Finnane

‘Australia, South Africa and apartheid’

1045

Mr Terry O’Gorman

‘The Right to protest in 1971 and looking ahead to the G20 conference to be held in Brisbane 2014’

1105

Professor Alan Knight

‘Queensland radicals and the Springbok protests‘

1125

Questions from the floor to Professor Finnane, Mr O’Gorman or Professor Knight.

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Bahrain: no hope for the Al Khalifa regime

Bahraini nurse calls on international support after police kill 16 yr old during crackdown on anniversary of democracy protests.

Hussain Al Jaziri, 16 years old, was killed by Bahraini security forces yesterday as the crackdown on pro-democracy protesters intensifies around the second anniversary of Bahrain’s ‘forgotten Arab Spring’.… Go to Article

Hands off Bob! Defend the right to organise!

'I Called Him A Worship, Your Bastard!' 
Denis Kevans (Poet Lorrikeet)

The poet lorrikeet would have enjoyed court yesterday with obscene language featuring in the original 54 charges of criminal contempt against union man, Bob Carnegie.… Go to Article

‘I don’t want to die without seeing justice’

What the caterpillar calls
the end of the world,
the rest of the world
calls a butterfly!
—Lao-Tsé

Social Movements — Gender, race, class, sexuality, age
[Summary of PShift (4ZZZ fm 102.1 fri at noon) 18 Jan 2013]
Playlist
Vencer (Winning) by Mestre Moraes e grupo capoeira angola pelourinho
Zumbi from A Tábua de Esmeralda by Jorge Ben Jor
“Mas Que Nada” sung by Miriam Makeba
Marisa Monte sings ‘Volte Para o Seu Lar’
other songs – not played on PShift
susana baca- el mayoral
susana baca – valentin
Mistério Do Planeta from (1972) Acabou Chorare by Novos Baianos

‘I don’t want to die without seeing justice’ — Luz Mendes from Guatemala

Guest on PShift, Laura introduces herself as being from Brazil studying gender politics and social movements.… Go to Article

PShift: Anarchist Summer School – what, where and when?

This discussion with organisers of the Brisbane Anarchist Summer School (BASS) was broadcast on the Paradigm Shift [Fridays at noon  on 4ZZZ fm 102.1] on 21 Dec 2012.… Go to Article

PShift: The Story of Coal – beauty and the beast

Anna came to this country and now she is left alone
Her man had so much sickness he left some in their home
It was just for a while until they got on their feet 
but the mine was a life sentence
It was them they sentenced me
             —Phil Monsour "Wittonoom"

Interviews with Clive Palmer & Drew Hutton
[Editor’s note: This show was broadcast on 4ZZZ fm 102.1 on 7 Dec 2012.… Go to Article

May the 1st Club

WERC - May 1st Club


Back in the late 1970s and early 1980s there was a need for political culture. In West End appeared the the first coffee club in Brisbane – May the 1st Club which was a regular event organised by activists from the democratic rights struggles in the 1970s.… Go to Article

Is West Papua being split up to marginalise the Papuan people?

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West Papua (called Irian Jaya by the expansionist, military-backed Indonesian regime) is rich in natural mineral and precious metals resources, making it a target for foreign trans-national corporations such as Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc.… Go to Article