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Invasion day marches to Musgrave Park

Geoff Ebbs /27 January, 2014

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 →

Freedom Day channels anger over VLAD laws

Geoff Ebbs /27 January, 2014

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 →

Give me liberty … corporate feudalism in Australia

admin /27 January, 2014

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 →

New works from the Centre at WAG

media /26 January, 2014

Woollongabba Art Gallery (known as WAG to its friends) is hosting two new sets of paintings from the centre, for the next month Downstairs © Tilau Nangala Ngurra Nganampa “Community” featuring Papunya Tjupi Opening Friday, 7 February 6.00pm – 9.00pm Exhibition Dates 4 February ~ 22 March 2014 ~ Upstairs © Wintjiya Napaltjarri dot.dot.dot. Paintings from Continue Reading →

Night’s cool kiss caps steamy summer days

admin /25 January, 2014

On a recent weekend visit to Brisbane, I lay on the carpet in my friend’s room watching the fan head push hot midday air towards me, wondering why I had thought it an acceptable prospect to be hung over in the heat that has lately enveloped Brisbane. My friend was lying on another section of Continue Reading →

New blood at the top for Modern Art

media /25 January, 2014

The Institute of Modern Art on the corner of Brunswick and Berwick St, Fortitude Valley has new Co-Directors, Aileen Burns and Johan Lundh. Aileen and Johan are both writers and curators, and they join us from their previous post as Co-Directors of the Centre for Contemporary Art Derry-Londonderry (CCA), Northern Ireland. They bring with them Continue Reading →