The irony is, if there were ever dangerous attachment devices, it is the parts manufactured in Brisbane by Ferra Engineering and Heat Treatment Australia.… Go to Article
Tag: Democratic Rights
Protected: Court and police failed authorised assembly protesting genocide in Palestine
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Union response to genocide inadequate
“Passivity is the same as defending injustice” – Deepak Chopra.
DURING the past 50 years in Brisbane Magandjin Queensland police have never dared to attack a rally on May Day.… Go to Article
The world watches Gaza again
How much longer must the Palestinian “Shoah” (שואה) continue?
ALREADY SUBJECT TO 18 months of ruthless Israeli bombardment and facing cold, calculated starvation, thirst, and disease, the world waits watching but refuses to intervene. … Go to Article
Protected: Political activists targeted for supporting Palestine
Queen Street Mall casts a pall over democracy
Image: CCTV footage of Jonathan Sriranganathan (then Councillor for the Gabba Ward) in a protest in the Queens Street Mall in Sept 2021 demonstrating against the rollout of the then federal Liberal government’s cashless welfare card.… Go to Article
Foreign Minister misled Palestinian families trapped in Gaza
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
Pots & pans ring out in solidarity with Chile
26 October 2019
Yesterday I attended an emergency rally in solidarity with the people of Chile brought on by the severe repression of the Pinera government with many Chileans murdered and imprisoned.… Go to Article
Women’s Right to Choose
‘No woman can call herself free who does not control her own body.’
– Margaret Sanger
On 17 October 2018 the Queensland parliament passed a law to decriminalise abortion – 48 years since women began the modern struggle for women’s right to choose.… Go to Article
Queensland Govt abets elder abuse
“Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested.” ― Franz Kafka, The Trial
… Go to Article They left only his hat On Thursday 16 October 2104 at 10 am I arrived at the Sunnybank home of my friend, Ross, a man of 80 years.
Jewel Towers over Moving Sands
‘All that glitters is not gold‘ – ‘The Merchant of Venice’ by Shakespeare.
On that stretch of beach known for decades as Surfers by the locals and badged as the Gold Coast for international consumption hump back and western wright whales pass by every year in winter, more than in living memory.… Go to Article
Historic Democratic and Land Rights Struggles
I have been asked by Brisbane Blacks and by activists to share historic films that may assist in coming struggles around G20 and after.… Go to Article
Boycott SodaStream and defend the right to organise
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Right to Organise
[Editors Note: WBT has received this appeal from Dr John Tully in Victoria and urges people to defend the right to organise by signing the petition (below).… Go to Article
Swimming Free Palestine!
Swimming Free, Palestine
Emad, Gareth and I walked to the
starting line at Wategos beach, near the
Byron Bay lighthouse.
As we entered the water with the other
swimmers, the organisers called off
the race because of treacherous
conditions.… Go to Article
A Report from the streets of Dublin Pre- QE2/U.S. Prez B.O Visits
*** by Ciaron O’Reilly
As the U.S. Grand Jury on WikiLeaks/ Julian Assange breaks cover and the Guardian newspaper settles into its dual role of the “Pravda of the Brit liberal left” and attack dog of the U.S.… Go to Article
More on Sand Theft from Straddie
Police to probe sand ‘theft’
Police have been called in to investigate the alleged large-scale theft of sand from North Stradbroke Island
Belgian-owned mining giant Sibelco has been accused of stealing as much as 8 million worth of sand from the island and selling it to the construction industry.… Go to Article
Film: QUANDAMOOKA DREAMING
The Quandamooka Combined Aboriginal Organisations Forum
proudly presents
QUANDAMOOKA DREAMING
A documentary film series from the Traditional Owners of Quandamooka country (Moreton Bay region) Filmmaker, Marcia Machado created four films about local history and culture in collaboration with Elders, community leaders and young people of Quandamooka Country
WHERE: Concert Hall, Redland Performing
Arts Centre (RPAC)
2-16 Middle Street, Cleveland
WHEN: Wednesday 11 May 2011
4:30pm – 7:00pm
TICKETS: Free to Quandamooka people
By donation (at the door) to
general public
BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL: To reserve your ticket, phone the RPAC Box Office on 3829 8131 between 12noon – 4pm Monday to Friday and 10am – 1pm Saturday
Tickets are also available from the North Stradbroke Island Housing Co-op… Go to Article
The Left on Labour Day 2011
Labour Day, Brisbane, 2011
Socialist groups missed an opportunity this Labour Day.
There has been a shift inside the Labour movement and the Left has not recognised it fully nor have they responded to it.… Go to Article
40,000 years and a handful of sand
Tony Mockeridge has asked that this song be dedicated to Lex Wotton. Accordingly this song goes out to Lex Wotton and his family for their courage in standing up for justice on Palms for the Bwgcolman people and for all the people of Queensland.… Go to Article
Protected: Welfare Quarantine in Remote Communities
Pine Gap 4 have won their Appeal!
by Donna Mulhearn
Dear friends
Today [22 February 2008] Bryan, Jim, Adele and Donna were acquitted of t
heir convictions under the Defence (Special Undertakings) Act 1952.… Go to Article
Where now for Palestine?
… Go to ArticleAfter US president Bush’s visit to Palestine in in January 2008 Israel cut power and fuel in its siege of the Gaza strip yet again .
‘A cage lined with silk is still a cage’ – detained Iranian refugee
Villawood Death in Custody Demands Ministerial Action
… Go to Article“The tragic death of a 62 year old Iranian immigration detainee is yet another disgraceful and entirely preventable cost of the ongoing mandatory detention policy” said Pamela Curr, of the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC).
2007 Federal Election: Bastards voted out
Little Joy for Workers
“In democracies, sometimes the rulers have to change in order to ensure that things remain the same”
— adapted from The Leopard by Giuseppe di Lampedusa
Unions were told by the Labor Party that they had to work on a marginal seats campaign to get the ALP in government and thereby change the workplace laws.… Go to Article