Sunday, 3 Mar 24: Palestinian women rally and march in Magandjin on 148th day of the genocide supported by Queensland feminists.… Go to Article
Tag: Queensland
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
Radical Australia
“I think Mussolini was a good politician. Everything he did, he did for Italy, she told the interviewer. And we haven’t had any politicians like that in the past 50 years.”… 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
Max Chandler-Mather on Israeli Apartheid
On 29 November it will be the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian people. The United Nations has just appointed independent human rights experts to oversee specific issues around the world.… Go to Article
Stop the QCAT cover-up of the Public Trustee’s maladministration
The Family of a victim of the Queensland Public Trustee has written an open letter to the Premier of Queensland asking her to unblock the blockage to justice in their case before the Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal (QCAT).… Go to Article
Renters are on the march
On 20 October 2020 the Southeast Queensland renters union (SEQUR) process it outside a housing summit called by the government which was stacked in favour of Real Estate agents developers landlords and militated against the rights of tenants.… 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
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
Protected: Unions in defeat
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
The making of a rebel
Here is a talk given by Jeff Rickertt about Ernie Lane on the making of a Queensland rebel. Full transcript below.… Go to Article
University gave Joh doctorate after sacking SEQEB workers
In 1985 during the SEQEB dispute, 1005 workers were sacked by the Bjelke-Petersen government and replaced by fewer people on contracted labour.… Go to Article
Strengthened Pride
“It was a pretty brutal place, but there was no slavery in Australia”
– Prime Minister Scott Morrison
“This is about Aunty Dawn Daylight’s experiences as a child slave at the All Hallows’ convent in Brisbane in the 1950’s and 60’s.… Go to Article
Hands off Bob! Defend the right to organise!
'I Called Him A Worship, Your Bastard!' Denis Kevans (Poet Lorrikeet)
The poet lorrikeet would have enjoyed court yesterday with obscene language featuring in the original 54 charges of criminal contempt against union man, Bob Carnegie.… Go to Article
Quandamooka land claim frustrated by 16 years of unlawful sand mining
Earlier this year 2010 mineral sand mining firm, UNIMIN, was charged by Qld Department of Environment and Resource Management (DERM) for selling building sand from the silica sand mining process on North Stradbroke Island off Brisbane.… Go to Article