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Image: Collins Class submarine at sea (a rare occasion). Music: Quiet of the Winter Moon by Jumping fences. Analysis of Paul Keating's speech to the National Press Club on Australia's strategic framework. This includes audio of parts of Keatings address and the Q&A afterwards on 10 November 2021. The reappearance last week of Paul Keating at the National Press Club after an absence of 26 years doe...

A poem by Joseph Monsour about the struggle by East Timorese for freedom and those that supported them in December 1975 when the Indonesian government ordered the invasion. The text is below. Seven Marched Unfurl the banner, Move onto the street. Only Seven, But seven marched It was a time of rage Rage forgotten People forgotten Students had been there Seen the people mass Their eyes were alight H...

Ian Curr, Mia Armitage, John Jiggens, John Shipton, Rob Osborne, Tariq Ali, and Ciaron O'Reilly. Song by Dermot Dorgan. Image: Anti-war protesters inside the venue of arms dealers sponsored by the Qld Government in Brisbane Convention Centre, Winter 2021.

Ciaron O'Reilly who kept vigil for Julian Assange outside the Ecuadorian Embassy in London for 6 months speaks at Bunyapa Park in Meanjin in West End (Kurilpa). It is 23 October 2021 and the extradition appeal is coming to an end.

Dermot Dorgan traces the history of shooting the messenger in this original ballad at Bunyapa Park in West End on 23 Oct 2021 at a rally opposing the extradition of Julian Assange from the UK to the US. Dermot’s song for Julian Two years have gone by since that murder when killing the messenger made its debut. Now that we're civilized, wise and intelligent, So surely such practices now are taboo....

Bring Julian Home by Nigel Q at Free Assange Rally in Bunyapa Park West End on Saturday 23 October 2021. BRING JULIAN HOME Bring Julian Home Bring him home! Bring Julian Home Bring him home! So no go slow, Mr Scomo Get President Joe on the blow-er Let him know extradition’s a no go-er! Tell him so! Listen Joe! Extradition no-go! Bring Julian Home Bring him home! Bring Julian Home Bring him home! S...

A high powered legal team had their last throw of the dice in London this week to stop the British government’s extradition of Assange to the United States. Regardless of the outcome in the courts, there is little hope for Julian Assange. Sadly the Americans are not going to let him go. As Scott Ludlam testified to the Belmarsh Tribunal the US government has “calculated to wear him and his support...

Mia Armitage: The UK High Court is this week hearing a US appeal against the decision of a lower court to deny the US government requests for the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Julian Assange’s father, John Shipton has been in London this week for his son’s latest judicial hearing, and says he’s pleased England’s most powerful judge Lord Chief Justice of England and Ireland, Ian...

The Kadaitcha Sung – A novel by Sam Watson Penguin Books (1990) – a review “the one god, a greater being, (who) made his camp on the rich veldts and in the lush valleys of the South Land” – Sam Watson describing the aboriginal spirit, Biamee. This began as a review of Sam watson’s book but has turned into a remembrance the life and times of this aboriginal leader. We are coming close to the second...

Image: Police Riot Squad at Kangaroo Point detention centre 25 October 2020. Sound: Recording of assault of NTEU member by Snr Cnst David Giddens. Song: 'Too many the Miles' by Dorothy & Friends at KP Prison. The assault of an NTEU union member outside the Kangaroo Point Refugee Detention Centre by Snr Constable David Giddins on 25 October 2020.

Image: Jose Ramos Horta and Downer swap memoranda from the Timor Gap Treaty with their respective Prime Ministers Jose Luis Guterres and Howard looking on. Song: Pegalo le duro al fiero (Strike the beast hard) sung by Sue Monk (Jumping Fences) & Sergio Aldunate. I worked in the Australian Tax Office for about 20 years. One of the clerks I worked with, Terry Yates, a follower of Dorothy Day, expose...

Andrew and Bevan (IPAN)speak out against AUKUS and the nuclear submarines

27 Sept 2021 - Interview with Olfat Mahmoud about the Palestinian refugees in Lebanon Dr Olfat Mahmoud talks about the current situation facing the Palestinian refugees in Lebanon. Please support the Palestinian Women's Humanitarian Organisation ... https://thebigrideaustralia.weebly.com/ Music by Fairouz - We will Return Transcript of interrview is at https://4pr-voice-of-the-people.com/2021/09/2...

Podcast with Ken Davis (APHEDA) about Palestinian refugees and the need to support the Palestinian Women's Humanitarian Organisation in Burj el Barajneh and Shatilla camps in Lebanon. Join the Big Ride for Palestine (Australia)2021 at https://bigrideaus2021.raisely.com/ Image: Women schooling disabled children in Burj el Barajneh refugee camp in Lebanon.

3CR's Joe Toscano interviews Brian Laver. See https://www.3cr.org.au/radicalaustralia/episode-202108041600/brian-laver

This is Corey Green’s unique interpretation of Lewis Carroll’s famous nonsense poem “Jabberwocky” “Twas brillig, and the slithy toves / Did gyre and gimble in the wabe” is one of the best known couplets in English literature. It is loved by children and adults alike, because it is so much fun. 'Beware the Jabberwock' is a caution to us all … be it the Taliban or Scott Morrison. Recording, editing...

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Trev on the Weather from 17 August 2021 Solar power systems’ energy output is weather dependent, and having worked in the solar industry for over 40 years, I had to learn something about the weather systems and climate. So when I installed, in July 2000, my first grid-connected solar photovoltaic power system on my home at Wellington Point, I estimated the solar energy production over time, using...

Samuel Woripa Watson is speaking at the 50th Anniversary of the anti-apartheid protests in Meanjin (Brisbane) organised by the Brisbane Writers Festival.

Cameron Murray on the price of housing.

IPAN Inquiry Review of Progress of People’s Inquiry into Australia’s involvement in U.S. - led wars and the alternatives. Image: Opposition to the Iraq war in Meanjin (Brisbane) in 2003

Global Warming Australia has warmed by about 1.4 degrees Celsius on average, about 0.3 of a degree higher than the global average temperature rise due primarily to our unsustainable use of fossil fuels. This is reflected in our monthly average temperatures as August this year so far looking more like September was based on Bureau of Meteorology up to the late 1970s (Source: Szokolay, S.V., 1982 –...

Andy (Paradigm Shift 4ZZZ fm 102.1 Fridays at Noon) interview author of Peace Crimes, Kieran Finnane about her book about Pine Gap Joint Defence Facility near Alice Springs where she has been a journalist for three decades.

Trev's Weather Report from 3 Aug ’21 read by Heather. Trevor's Weather Report, from 3 August . Finally got a good windsurf in off Wello Point yesterday. Wind was a consistent south-easterly at 14 to 16 knots, with clear skies and only 2 other sailors out. Sometimes it can get crowded on Morton Bay, believe it or not. But yesterday I didn’t have to look over my shoulder this time to do my rapid tur...

Interview with Ian Lowe about the environment and the military Industrial complex. Playlist Carla Geneve - Red Rocks Drawing 'Highfield House overlooking the Nut' in North-East Tasmania by John and Ian Curr.