Tag: police

Up the Right Channels?

Complicit – involved in or knowing about a crime or some activity that is wrong.

Even though there were three activities in support of Palestine at University of Queensland (UQ) yesterday they were overshadowed by the crowds, size and scope of ‘market day’ where clubs and societies vied for members in the Great Court and at the Student Union complex.… 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

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

50 years after the tent embassy – still keeping kids out of jail

‘Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo – obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other.… Go to Article

Rally: Free Lex Wotton!

Free Lex Wotton!

A Rally was held on 1 November 2008 in Brisbane.

Then a Rally was held on 7 November 2008 in Townsville, Brisbane, Melbourne, Sydney, London, Santiago (Chile) and all around the world.

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