Union Aid Abroad-APHEDA works in the West Bank and Gaza with three local organisations to support small-scale farmers get quality produce to market, increase household incomes and help establish sustainable cooperative businesses.… Go to Article

“The USA marines in Darwin could drag Australia into war.”

Freedom for whom? Freedom from whom? Freedom against whom?

Freedoms are questions of class power.

Can there be too much freedom of the press?… Go to Article

This week we talk with Diego Sequera from Mision Verdad in Venezuela about the attempt by the United States government to orchestrate a coup in his country.… Go to Article

The ladder of law has
no top and no bottom
               - Bob Dylan
               'The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll'

Peter (Carne) and I have long been associated through the Queensland Community Foundation Board.… Go to Article

Review of You can go now, a film by Larissa Berendt

For anyone who is interested in living in contemporary Australia they should visit this film.… Go to Article

The state government announced approval for the Adani mine today.

So state and federal governments have won the trifecta, on climate change at least.… Go to Article

20 years ago Australians rejected a republic in a national referendum. The model proposed was to substitute an Australian President for the Queen.… Go to Article

Here is an excellent summary of  new ‘anti-terrorism’ laws in Australia by Bevan Ramsden (APAN). Recently a regular WBT correspondent claimed that:

“Manning & Assange were sold out by the anti-war movement that incited & abandoned them.… Go to Article

The first radical house I lived in was in Austral Street St Lucia in Brisbane. I lived there from 1975 ~1977.… Go to Article

We post this article here because Logan council wishes to buy up land on Chambers Flat Road Munruben to widen a connecting road and build a new bridge.… Go to Article

It looks like the Save the UQ Union Complex has got Matt Condon onside! Condon is the author of All Fall Down.… Go to Article

We are supposed to be still in an age of glaciation because of reduced radiation from the sun yet the planet has been warming because of the burning of fossil fuels creating more CO2 in the atmosphere resulting in a greenhouse effect.… Go to Article

Jamie Larcombe was just nineteen
When he signed up for the Operation
The Generals called ‘SLIPPER’
Code for global war
In Afghanistan, Middle East and the
Gulf of Aden
No medals will bring Jamie home,
That boy from Kangaroo Island
– Last Train to Mirabad by Ian Curr

Recently the Australian Federal Police (AFP) have been raiding both the ABC and News Corp looking for information about an Afghan vet who has revealed war crimes by Australian Generals.… Go to Article

espionage (noun) … the practice of spying or of using spies, typically by governments to obtain political and military information. – Oxford Dictionary

The Falcon and the Snowman

It is as if Trump has thrown us back to the Cold War era.… Go to Article

Plate sin with gold, and the strong lance of justice hurtless brakes.
Arm it with rags, a pygmy’s straw doth pierce it.… Go to Article

Friends,

On Tuesday morning, Brisbane ABC Radio did a story on our heritage application and then ran a poll. The response was very heartening.… Go to Article

Queensland man Jeremy Lee worked for a company called Superior Wood and he successfully represented himself after he refused to sign-on and sign-off using a finger print scanner.… Go to Article

Any stories, memories, or images that you have about Schonell theatre, Zed, the Forum, Refec and UQ Union send them into the Heritage department for why we should save the UQ Union centre.… Go to Article

In the wake of a dismal result in the 2019 Federal Election people are asking where to now. As a contest of ideas the election was a failure.… Go to Article

The association of graduates in Cuba adopted a statement by which it demands the end of the blockade against our country and joins the international rejection of the new sanctions imposed by the American government against Cuba, especially against the activation of Title III of The Helms-Burton law.… Go to Article