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
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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
Queen Street Mall casts shadow 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
Labor Foreign Policy – fear of United States?
In this podcast, Alternative News makes a strong case that ALP leadership fears US government intervention in local affairs. The program says that this underpins Labor’s foreign policy decisions.… Go to Article
Peace & Refugees – no war!
This podcast is about the peace and and refugee rally that was held in Brisbane King George Square on the 2nd of April 2023.… Go to Article
We teach life, sir
Today, my body was a TV’d massacre that had to fit into sound-bites and word limits filled enough with statistics to counter measured response.… Go to Article
Seeking Asylum
“Seeking asylum, the voices Australia should hear” – a review of ‘our stories’ published by the Asylum Seeker Resource Center in Melbourne.… Go to Article
Energy Market Failure
“The national electricity market is a failed 1990s experiment” – Professor John Quiggan, 22nd of June 2022.
Market failure in Energy industry
In his talk on the Energy Crisis and Market Failure renewables engineer, Trevor Berrill, tells why and how this self-inflicted failure of the market came about and suggests some solutions.… Go to Article
Ukraine: World War III?
“There is very real danger of World War. But I agree with your line. We are faced with huge economic and ecological challenges and we are possibly in the run down to WW3.… Go to Article
George Georges and the parliamentary road …
‘I am wondering if I haven’t wasted my life’ – Senator George Georges in May 1986 after being suspended from the Federal Labor Party.… 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
Countering ALP opportunism in unions
Hard words rang
across the factory floor
Juan heard the sound of hate
bitter words to injure
a shout that sent the signal
for the war to come
– ‘Brisbane Barrio’ by Jumping Fences
Uber has been a low tax paying global giant since 2010.… Go to Article
Stand against war in Ukraine
Interview with Ukrainian Greek Catholic priest, Martin Arnold, on war in Ukraine.
SPEAKERS
Martin Arnold (Ukrainian Greek Catholic priest),
Ian Curr (4PR – Voice of the People).… 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
Launch of ‘From-Australia-to-Cuba-with Love’ Campaign
Sue Monk and Lachlan Hurse (ACFS) organized an event on the first day of 2022 to launch ‘From Australia to Cuba with Love’.… 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
Former Labor Minister at odds with his party over US alliance, nuclear subs
AUKUS and nuclear subs are an ‘election stunt’ – former Labor Minister, Rod Welford
Former Labor Attorney General and Environment Minister in Queensland told a crowd on International Human Rights day yesterday in Brisbane Square that the federal government purchase of nuclear submarines is ‘a stunt’.… Go to Article
ACTU on vaccine mandates
Ever since the One Big Union (OBU) a century ago, unions have been involved in big issues confronting humanity and the environment.… Go to Article
Light from the Heart of Darkness?
I remember when David McBride’s father William McBride was presented to the world as a hero for exposing the drug thalidomide.… Go to Article
Queensland Govt abets elder abuse
A Whitlam trifecta
By Humphrey McQueen
[HMcQ: Following are three pieces written for the Bulletin in 1999-2000. The Bulletin commissioned and paid for this obituary in 2,000 but it died first (sic).]… Go to Article