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'Not guilty'

The trial of Ian David Curr, charged with assaulting two police officers at May Day 2024 in Brisbane, concluded with a not guilty verdict. The prosecution alleged Curr pushed against officers Snr Sgt Emma Gordon and Constable Jake Threlfall during a speech by the then-premier, Stephen Miles, listing his government’s achievements but failing to acknowledge complicity in war crimes in Gaza. The…

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March for Palestine on Story Bridge

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We built this city!

Over a year ago myself and another proud long-termBLF/CFMEU member were asked by workers on Queens Wharf 5 & 6 to paint a mural on the hoarding. We had a look one day at the hoarding and decided if we are going to do it, we paint the whole thing. It’s a real cool spot to do a piece right there in the city and in front of parliament. We got it approved by the developer/builder first and then…

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The Genocide

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Opposing US war preparation

Listen to Opposing US war preparation by IPAN on 4PR – Voice of the People on #SoundCloudhttps://on.soundcloud.com/rVGiZO1VJUYuTZtUaW

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Bread and Blood

We post this article from Gaza by Samah Zaher Zaqout, a Gaza-based Palestinian living under the current “war.” This piece, “Famine, Fear, and the Fight for Bread” shed light on what they are experiencing in Palestine. Famine, Fear, and the Fight for BreadBy Samah ZaqoutWhat If We Had Stayed?In Gaza, getting white bread is a rare comfort — a gamble with your life. Every morning in Gaza, people…

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From Beirut to Bosnia

From Beirut to Bosnia, which attempted, in the words of our first episode, to show how Muslims were coming to hate the West`. We were filming exactly eight years before the attacks of 11 September 2001, and, rewatching the series today, it was made on real flm, not videotape, and cost more than 2 million dollars- I am ever more astonished at what it told viewers. For it turns out to have been a…

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Working class activist on 1985 SEQEB dispute

Bob Carnegie, a working-class activist, discusses the 1985 SEQEB dispute in Australia, emphasizing its historical and personal significance. He highlighted the global economic context, including Reagan’s anti-union policies and Thatcher’s monetarist approach, which led to widespread de-industrialization. 4PR – Voice of the People · Bob Carnegie’s BLHA talk on SEQEB Dispute In Australia, the…

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Save Barrambin

I just wanted to film this special place because I think a lot of people are under the impression that by them in Victoria Park is just like rolling green lawns from the few decades … it was used as a golf course … now filled with vegetation as well. https://www.facebook.com/share/v/16i2ufz3c1/ Over there, the spot that some people called IBIS Island, there’s a little Ibis breeding colony. You…

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4Zzz - young rebels

“The interesting thing about Triple-Z’s first Radiothon appeal is that it was broadcast from the new mast on Mount Cootha as a test transmission. The Radiothon was held between 6th and 9th January 1978 and raised over $6,000. Although the test transmission was broadcast at 1 kilowatt of power as per the Saint Lucia licence, the switchboard was jammed with calls from Mooloolabah to Tweed Heads,…

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Cuba: poetry in motion

https://mailchi.mp/38ff84dae104/26july2024-12751216?e=3fe20fd63e

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SEQEB - 40 years and not forgotten

Click to access 1985_BLHA_40_Years_SEQEB_FLYER.pdf

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What's on in July

The soils that labourers till: remaking histories of enclosure and global capitalism Saturday, July 12, 2025 · 2:00 – 4:00pm250 Boundary St, Highgate Hill QLD 4101, Australia NotesOn Saturday July 12th, historian and political activist Humphrey McQueen will join us at the Kurilpa Commons to investigate the historical relationship of colonisation in Australia to the global expansions of…

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Coles and Israel's genocide

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DLyDFnkTCHz/?igsh=MWVveW95anh2ajA0OQ==

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Sanctions when?

This week,  I attended the Canberra Convergence webinar organised by Sanction Israel Now. It was an information only session outlining the reasons why the convergence is needed. At the outset, Sanction Israel Now organizers invoked two prior events as historic inspirations: March on Washington and the 1972 Aboriginal tent embassy for the Sanctions Now Convergence on Canberra for a Free…

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Vale Ian MacLeod

Ian MacLeod was born Born in Innisfail North Qld in 1932 and passed away on 15th May 2025. As a young man Ian trained as an apprentice Metal Moulder and became an active member of the Australian Miscellaneous Workers Union at the South Johnstone Sugar Mills. Ian rose through the union ranks to become the state secretary of the amalgamated metalworkers union (AMWU) in 1981. Even though I knew of…

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Media reform, is it possible?

In her speech outside the ABC in Brisbane on 29 June 2025, Michelle McDonald criticizes the Australian media’s bias towards Israel, highlighting a commercial radio report that omitted key details about the Israel-Iran conflict and Israel’s nuclear arsenal. She points to the influence of Lachlan Murdoch and News Corp, which owns a significant portion of Australia’s newspapers, and accuses them of…