Just prior to the High Court handing down its written judgment about the extradition case against Julian Assange. I did this interview in Brisbane outside the British Consulate.… Go to Article
A ceasefire, finally?
After 76 years, and 171 days of Israeli genocide in Gaza, the UN has finally recognised Palestinian humanity.
Penny Wong waited to call for a ceasefire for 170 days, just before the US stopped using its veto in the UN to protect Israel’s genocide in Gaza.… Go to Article
Palm Sunday rally to stop genocide in Gaza
Over a thousand people came out in rainy weather for the annual Palm Sunday rally for peace and refugees on March 24, 2024.… Go to Article
Israel seizes more land on the West Bank
This article first published by Deutsche Welle seems to be saying that the illegal seizure of land in Palestine is due to the right wing nature of the current government.… Go to Article
Report from Doctor in Gaza
Dr. Yasser Khan, a Canadian ophthalmologist and plastic surgeon, just left Gaza where he spent 10 days at the hospital performing eye surgeries on victims of Israeli attacks.… Go to Article
Elitist politics of genocide
The lie that Hamas is operating from hospitals in Gaza is still being put about to justify the murderous attacks by Israel targeting hospitals, patients, and health professionals.… Go to Article
Stop arming Israel!
Two People climbed on to the roof of HTA Brisbane, an arms manufacturing company in Coopers Plains in Magan-djin, at 3 AM this morning, and their protest was ongoing till they were brought down by police negotiators just before noon.… Go to Article
PM and ministers face prosecution for complicity in war crimes
Last week, the Australian Prime Minister and others were referred to the international criminal court prosecutor for investigation as an accessory to genocide.… Go to Article
Ain’t Gonna Pay for Genocide No More
All people recognize the right of revolution; that is, the right to refuse allegiance to and to resist the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable – Henry David Thoreau, on his refusal to pay the Massachusetts poll tax levied for the war resulting in a night in jail.… Go to Article
Peace in the Park
During the holy month of Ramadan, about one thousand Palestinians and their supporters break fast in Queens Park. Its election day in Magan-djan ( Brisbane).… Go to Article
The Fate of the Eastern Curlew
Toondah Harbour, in Brisbane, is located within one of Australia’s internationally protected wetland areas, the Moreton Bay Ramsar site. It is a critical habitat to some of our most vulnerable animals – dugongs, turtles, koalas and migratory shorebirds, including the eastern curlew. … Go to Article
Jonno for City Hall
Small businesses are closing down and struggling in the heart of old West End. Mayoral candidate Jonathan Sriranganathan has identified one of the reasons as being increased rent.… Go to Article
From the River to the Sea …
Today, Lachlan and I rode over 87 kilometres from the river to the sea in solidarity with the struggle of the Palestinian people in Gaza and the West Bank.… Go to Article
Katter Party disrupts parliament on the eve of IWD
The media claimed there were clashes between Robbie Katter and demonstrators outside the Parliament this week on the eve of International Working Women’s Day.… Go to Article
Justice for Palestine Magan-djin podcasts
March of a thousand flags
“We should should fight endlessly to have our own sovereign flag…and as soon as we have it, we should fight to burn it.… Go to Article
No fear, no favour: solidarity with Antoinette Lattouf
“There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can’t take part; you can’t even passively take part, and you’ve got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you’ve got to make it stop.… Go to Article
Week of Action in Magan’djin to stop genocide in Gaza
Justice for Palestine, in collaboration with other groups, has organised the following week of action.
Public Meeting for Justice for Palestine 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Wed, 6 Mar 2024 16 Peel St, South Brisbane QLD 4101, Australia https://fb.me/e/1LqXpZBEk… Go to Article
Women call for a week of action in Magan-djin
Sunday, 3 Mar 24: Palestinian women rally and march in Magandjin on 148th day of the genocide supported by Queensland feminists.… Go to Article
News from Palestine
I start with genocide news, go to actions YOU CAN take and then five more items of relevance (please share and act) Item 1: (Genocide) Seven Babies died in one of the only remaining hospital with incubators.… Go to Article
Gaza is not a war
Sunday 3 March 2024 was Day 148 of the genocide in Gaza. Journalists around the world still do not seem to appreciate what those words mean.… Go to Article
Tribute to Aaron Bushnell by Iraq Veteran
Some years ago I was taken to visit a family on the outskirts of Brisbane by a former Iraqi journalist. I spent the day with them and they explained to me how they came to be shot by an Australian soldier on the streets of Baghdad.… Go to Article
Don Brady led march for Aboriginal Rights
On May Day 2007 Samuel Watson took me past the church in Leichardt Street in Magandjin where Don Brady had set up a community centre.… Go to Article
Parliament complicit in genocide
The Australian government is arguing over paltry sums of money in aid to Gaza when the people are starving particularly in the north.… Go to Article
Wars on Gaza
Over the last 20 years, I have covered most of the Israeli attacks on Gaza. There have been many wars against Palestinians since 1967 that I have followed.… Go to Article
Brisbane Lord Mayor offers advice to Hamas
4PR: You’re the Lord Mayor of Gaza. What do you do?
Transcript
Interview with Brisbane Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner
4PR – Voice of the people: can you please introduce yourself?… Go to Article
Vale Joan Coxedge
There will be a Memorial event to celebrate the life of Joan Coxedge on 24th February 2024, at 2pm, at Melbourne Unitarian Peace Memorial Church, 110 Grey St, East Melbourne.… Go to Article
From the river to the sea …
Bella and Chaim, the author’s parents were known as Basia and Heniek. For eighteen months from late 1943 they hid in a hole under the backyard workroom of a retired Polish policeman in a suburb of occupied Warsaw.… Go to Article
Short notes on Public Assembly in Queensland
Dust tiptoes in a standing ovation
after the explosion
Edward Said is out of place,
again:
His books fall from my shelves
Onto the broken window glass.… Go to Article