Managing director of Ebono Institute and major sponsor of The Generator, Geoff Ebbs, is running against Kevin Rudd in the seat of Griffith at the next Federal election. By the expression on their faces in this candid shot it looks like a pretty dull campaign. Read on
The community forum held at Jagera Hall on Tuesday to discuss the Queensland Government’s war on civil liberties generated passionate debate around the value of protest marches as a form of engendering change. Organised by the Cloudland Collective, the intent of the evening was to bring the experience of three activists from the seventies to Continue Reading →
Australian Government Office of the Australian Information Commissioner announced today, aptly on Data Privacy Day, that Australians will have their right to privacy strengthened on 12 March 2014. Australian Privacy Commissioner Timothy Pilgrim says in a press release the new privacy laws will strengthen peoples’ privacy rights in areas such as direct marketing, the disclosure Continue Reading →
Having a Prime Minister as the sitting member drew significant attention to Griffith during the 2013 federal election, but there is a sense that this time around the eyes of the nation will be on Griffith with renewed interest, many seeing this by-election as the first test for Tony Abbott’s government. On one side of Continue Reading →
Hundreds of people of all races, colours and ages marched from Queensland Parliament House to Musgrave Park yesterday to commemorate Invasion Day. Speakers reiterated that sovereignty over Australia was never ceded, there is no Treaty and Australian Governments have consistently found new legal instruments to separate the first peoples from their land. Uncle Wayne Wharton Continue Reading →
Brisbane’s Freedom Day rally yesterday attracted more than 1,600 motorcycle riders and supporters angry at the attacks on civil liberties by the Newman government. Groups supporting the riders included the unions, political parties, charities and welfare groups – all acutely aware of the devastating effect of the attacks by the Liberal National Party on those Continue Reading →
There’s a link doing the rounds that deserves a much wider audience and certainly a greater role in the national consciousness. This particular precis, which can be found here, is a study conducted by Dr Lawrence Britt in 2003 detailing the defining traits of fascism. The difference between facism and corporate feudalism is of purely academic Continue Reading →