“All life will beauty fly me
Leaving pale tints of its passing
Still pools rippled by leaf-fall
Storm send swifting wild skies.”… Go to Article

A Jehovah’s Witness named Tacis just came to my door and I asked him what tomorrow may bring?

“Peace and justice” Tacis replied, “because Jehovah ordained it ….… Go to Article

In August, 2025 the Labor Party united with the Liberal Coalition to overcome cross-bench opposition in the Senate and pass, jointly, a Bill to fund housing for 1,000 US military and their contractors (Boeing, Lockheed Martin, etc MIC contractors) in WA for their AUKUS nuclear Submarine Project.… Go to Article

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We publish this Maritime Union of Australia media release and wish MUA Queensland Seafarer Hamish Patterson and all the participants our love and solidarity in their efforts to bring aid to starving Palestinians during the genocide in Gaza.… Go to Article

Police told the chief magistrate in Brisbane that their estimate of 10,000 people could not safely march over the Story Bridge on Sunday, the 24th of August 2025.… Go to Article

Calling all community members to show up on Saturday 13th September, 12pm in King George Square in solidarity with First Nations people 🖤💛❤️

Share this with your networks, families and friends.… Go to Article

On August 24, 2025, a diverse crowd of over 40,000 people in Magan-djin/Brisbane peacefully assembled to protest Israel’s genocide in Gaza and to demand the Australian government impose sanctions.… Go to Article

Las banderas palestinas superan en número a los ciclistas en la Vuelta

Hoy, 4 de septiembre de 2025, la solidaridad con Palestina ha paralizado la llegada de la etapa 11 de la Vuelta en la ciudad vasca de Bilbao.… Go to Article

There’s no straighter road to reclaiming Australia
than the one the Gurindji took in ’66, seeing-off the Lord Vestey;
walked-off and took-back Wattie Creek.… Go to Article

https://www.facebook.com/share/1DABWZwNPJ/… Go to Article

“A fair judge, an upright judge – always a terrible danger to the defence!” – Rumpole of the Bailey

Keith, the grandfather of Julian, the stipendiary magistrate, was a race caller and turf writer for many years in South East Queensland.… Go to Article

If you can’t speak out against this kind of thing
A crime that’s so unjust
Your eyes are filled with dead men’s dirt
Your mind is filled with dust
— Bob Dylan, Death of Emmet Till

We publish this extract from a declaration by the Solidarity and Resistance collective.… Go to Article

We reprint this excellent article by Shane Dowling from the Kangaroo Court of Australia

Will Linda Reynolds have to declare bankruptcy if Brittany Higgins doesn’t pay?… Go to Article

Northern Rivers Friends of Palestine joined the 60,000 rally in Magan-Djin. We had 120 PRESS vests a Banner that read: “Killing Journalists is Killing the Truth”

We let the ABC office in Brisbane Magan-djin know exactly how we feel about their “coverage” and we sent a strong message: “JOURNALISTS – NOT A TARGET”

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/19YJyqZfJm/… Go to Article

Pro-cycling team, Israel Premier tech, was prevented from passing a barricade of Palestinian banners in the largest race in Spain. The team is funded by an Israeli billionaire and Canadian developer, Sylvan Adams, who refers to himself as “a self-appointed ambassador at large for the state of Israel”.… Go to Article

“ASIO assesses it (Iran) was behind the attacks on the Lewis’ Continental Kitchen in Sydney on October 20 last year, and the Adass Israel Synagogue in Melbourne on December 6, last year.… Go to Article

And it’s clever in more subtle ways, showing the seduction of belief among the “ordinary people” in a strongman (or strongpig) leader – think Lenin, Stalin or Trump.… Go to Article

There are a number of ways of calculating how many people attended a rally and march. One way is to look up Mrs Google and calculate the distance or length of the march along a street, then calculate how many rows there are and multiply that by the number of people in each row.… Go to Article

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DNokZS5yING/?igsh=MW56N3I2eHJ6ZG82ZA==… Go to Article

Over 400,000 people in Australia marched against the genocide in Gaza on Sunday 24 August 2025. One day later this mass mobilisation has already fallen off the evening news of the Australian Broadcasting Commission.… Go to Article

The march this Sunday 24 August will assemble at 1pm at Queens Gardens, the park bounded by George and Elizabeth Sts, in the Brisbane CBD.… Go to Article

After two weeks of opposition by police, right-wing media and LNP council, Chief Magistrate Brassington appointed herself chief political negotiator for the government and authorized a march from Queens Park to Musgrave Park on Sunday 24 August 2025.… Go to Article

The National Union of Students has endorsed a call by Students for Palestine to hold a national student referendum on Palestine.… Go to Article

In 2024, US firms spent $34bn on genAI

Little or no lift in productivity

Either they don’t know what it is for or how to use it

Wall Street Journal, April 28, 2025, B4

The Journal is one of the very few to distinguish genAI from Artificial General Intelligence

Humphrey McQueen is finishing a detailed article spelling it out.… Go to Article