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ABC radio interview with UQ vice-chancellor Deborah Terry about saving the UQ Union Complex.

Weather Forecast - 6 July 2021 Trev’s Brisbane Forecast for next 7 Days from 6 July Earth’s climate system is interconnected over very large distances. An example is the Rossby Circulation of winds at high altitude around the northern and southern hemispheres latitudes that I have mentioned before. The intense rainfall events in Japan recently had an effect of this circulation and helped create th...

Trev’s Brisbane Forecast for next 7 Days from 29 June

Trevs Weather Forecast 22 Jun 2021 by LeftPress

From 15 June till 21 June 2021 Another storm front associated with an upper level trough just passed over south east Queensland this morning. These troughs aren’t shown on the surface pressure weather charts. The Bureau meteorologists commented in May on the ABC how unusual storms are for this time of year, but that they are not associated with the La Nina event which brought a wetter summer early...

Trev’s Forecast for next 7 Days from 8 June A cold snap is coming but that doesn’t mean the Earth’s climate is cooling as climate change deniers immediately spruik. The climate’s rapid warming is based on sound physics of the greenhouse effect, known since at least 1859. This is credited to Irish physicist John Tyndall. He published a series of studies at this time on the way greenhouse gases incl...

Arms dealers inside the Brisbane Convention Centre clapped and cheered Queensland police as they arrested peace activists trying to stop more arms deals between Australia, Israel and Saudi Arabia. Protests continue today at the Land Forces Expo in South Brisbane (Meanjin). These people should be outlawed from Brisbane and their dirty deals banned. Watch the video below as the Queensland Government...

Trev’s Forecast for next 7 Days from 1 June Some strong southerly winds were predicted last weekend and they didn’t eventuate over the land, even over Moreton Bay. This can be caused by a number of factors. One is the high surface roughness of the land, slowing the wind close to the ground. As well, if the atmosphere is more stable (i.e. less vertical motion and mixing of parcels of air), then the...

Trev Weather Forecast 25 May by LeftPress

Trev The Weatherman and Ian swim to Yerabin

Dan O'Neill's speech at Bunyapa Park on May Day in Meanjin

Rally at Qld Parliament on 16 May 2021

Speaks at al nakba Rally Meanjin 14 May 2021

Young Girl tells her Grandmothers al Nakba story by LeftPress

Khalil Hamdan - Al Nakba Survivor by LeftPress

Sam Watson

Ali from the West Bank speaks out against the occupation of Palestine at an al Nakbah rally in Meanjin (Brisbane)

Trev’s Forecast for next 7 Days from 11 May Trev’s Forecast for next 7 Days from 11 May Well I said a couple of weeks ago that weather patterns often repeat (not precisely) over about 2 week periods. Last night we just had another storm with more predicted today as another trough line with a very unstable air mass moves over south east Queensland. That’s similar to what happen last week at around...

Israel’s refusal to release tax revenue from Gaza and the West Bank has forced the Palestinian Authority to stop paying wages to over 155,000 public servants. Abbas has also postponed elections because Israel would not allow them and also because he would lose to a new group in the Fatah movement. The leader of this group, Marwan Barghouti was jailed some years ago and remains in solitary confinem...

Trev’s Forecast for next 7 Days from 5 May Well we just had a storm overnight and more are predicted today (Wednesday). When was the last time I can remember storms with large hail predicted for May? While I can’t remember and would need time to analyse data, I’ve been observing the weather closely now for the past 30 years and have to say that May storms are pretty unusual, particularly as wester...

This was broadcast on 'Workers Power' on 4ZZZ on the 4th May 2021. Brisbane Labor Day indeed Labor Day all over Australia began its existence in the campaigns to win the eight hour day. So the initial push for the eight hour day in Australia was led by stonemasons down in in Melbourne, particularly the stonemasons working on the the Law Faculty building at the University of Melbourne University. S...

It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding): But even the president of the United States, Sometimes must have, To stand naked. – Bob Dylan Radio silence One of the organisers of the Bring Julian Home campaign asked me for a critique of the campaign so far. It goes without saying that if the intention of the US government is to stymie Wikileakes then then years Julian has spent in detention has certainly...

Ian interviews Tatiana From 'Colombianos En Brisbane' at May Day in the exhibition grounds.

Jumping Fences sing Carry me away rom Distant Love (No Telephone), track released December 4, 2004 Words and music by Lachlan Hurse and Sue Monk Guitar and vocals; Sue Monk Electric bass; Lachlan Hurse Keyboards; Peter Baker Snare and Latin Percussion; James Harper Additional percussion; Oscar Orellana Violin; Michal Postula Tenor Sax; Ross Gwyther

Binil Kattiparambil speaks at the Disrupt Land Forces at a Public Meeting and Art Show on May 1, 2.30pm Jagera Hall, Musgrave Park, 121 Cordelia Street South Brisbane. The weapons corporations are coming to Brisbane in late May and early June. 260 corporations & government bodies are dealing in tanks, military weapons systems, missiles, munitions. The Expo is from 1 June at the Convention centre i...