Tag: Brisbane

Why did Biden call for ceasefire after the WCK murders by the IDF?

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Rheinmetall, Boeing, Ferra Engineering and HTA in Brisbane are involved in the manufacture of weapons parts for F35 strike fighters and ‘Ghost Bat’ drones and bombs.… Go to Article

Jonathan Sriranganathan – council complicity in genocide?

It was late in the day, in a cold, inhospitable place, King George Square in Brisbane, where once flourished fountains, grass and flowers, only now to become a hot concrete box, with a big brother screen above and a bar that turns up its music as soon as you start a rally for Palestinian human rights.… Go to Article

Foreign Minister misled Palestinian families trapped in Gaza

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Children of stones throw rockets

The children of the stones
have scattered our papers
spilled ink on our clothes
mocked the banality of old texts…

Fact: There are 15 million native Palestinians, 8 million are refugees or displaced people who do not have the right to return home (2/3rd of Gaza’s 2.3 million people are refugees).… Go to Article

Radical, reform or revolution?

Radical simply means grasping things at the root. ― Angela Davis

People who pronounce themselves in favor of the method of legislative reform in place of and in contradistinction to the conquest of political power and social revolution, do not really choose a more tranquil, calmer and slower road to the same goal, but a different goal.… Go to Article

Police case in tatters over arms dealer convention

LAND FORCES International Land Defence Exposition, Australia’s premier arms dealer convention, will move from Brisbane to the Melbourne in 2024. The Brisbane protests in 2022 produced a conflict between police and demonstrators as to the right of public assembly.… Go to Article

Brisbane Blacks

Some years ago, around 2015, I was invited to a function put on for Brisbane Blacks organised by Sam Watson. It was held at the Dutton Park men’s shed overlooking the Brisbane River and the University of Queensland, just under the Green Bridge.… Go to Article

Top Guns

Land Forces 2022 will be a powerful forum for key decision makers from throughout the region, enabling government representatives, defense officials, military procurement managers and senior Army officers to network with defense material manufacturers, equipment suppliers and service providers.… Go to Article

‘No War’ rally outside the Hilton in Brisbane

I spent thirty-three years and four months in active military service, and during that period I spent most of my time being a high-class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers.… Go to Article

Submarines made out of Coffins

There are too many jellyfish in Moreton Bay for a Submarine Base. Submarines would “inevitably” be forced into an emergency reactor shutdown by swarms of jellyfish – Lisa-ann Gershwin, leading marine biologist and Jellyfish expert.… Go to Article

Rob Snarski and Lindy Morrison at the Bearded Lady

Don’t the sun look good today?
But the rain is on its way.
Watch the butcher shine his knives
And this town is full of battered wives.… Go to Article

You say you want a revolution

alma mater (literal in latin = a kind and nourishing mother) a school, college, or university at which one has studied and, usually, from which one has graduated.… Go to Article

If You Don’t Fight You Lose

Recently there was some discussion about the Right-to-March campaign in Queensland in 1977-79. I have dug up an old video made by the Media Committee of the Civil Liberties Co-ordinating Committee (CLCC) that traces the history of that campaign in its early months.… Go to Article

Cost of Nuclear Subs

Kristin Perissinotto, the media officer from the Electrical Trades Union spoke about workers rights and conditions, the impact of war on climate, First Nations people, and refugees and people seeking asylum.… Go to Article

Brisbane Racing Club ‘rips off poor people’ – Cr Sriragnathan

Councillor Sriragnathan from the Gabba ward is not the only person concerned about the Brisbane Racing Club being a ‘blood sucking parasite‘  because they put poker machines in their clubs to ‘rip off poor people’.… Go to Article

Covid confusion – view from a wooden chair

Announcer: This is Ian from 4 PR – voice of the people and we’re presenting a speech given by a registered nurse over the weekend during the anti-vaccination demonstrations in Australia.… Go to Article

Sovereignty goes to Court

Give me an SMedia release: Sovereign Embassy supporters to rally outside court
by Brisbane Aboriginal-Sovereign Embassy on Wednesday, January 9, 2013 at 5:02pm ·

Supporters of the Brisbane Aboriginal Sovereign Embassy will gather outside the Brisbane Magistrates Court this Friday as three Embassy members again face court for defending the Sacred Fire.… Go to Article

Trifecta at 608 Brunswick Street

‘608 Brunswick Street, Fortitude Valley’

— a story about a share house in Brisbane
in the late 1970s and early 1980s

by Ian Curr

"No reason to get excited," the thief, he kindly spoke,
"There are many here among us who feel that life is but 
a joke.
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