4PR - Voice of the People

Excerpt from the film 'Queensland Dossier' describing the Qld govt's attacks on women's rights and aboriginal land rights. 1. Women's Rights. 2. Charles Porter, Queensland Minister for Aboriginal and Islander Affairs on self-determination and "the Acts" Image: Police surround democratic rights activists on election day 11 Nov 1977. Qld Dossier -- A documentary shot around Queensland in 1978 linkin...

Charles Porter, Queensland Minister for Aboriginal and Islander Affairs on self-determination and the notorious "Acts". Porter was speaking at UQ's Abel Smith Lecture Theatre on ABC's Monday Conference compered by Robert Moore. Image: Police surround democratic rights activists on election day 11 Nov 1977. Qld Dossier -- A documentary shot around Queensland in 1978 linking Bjelke Petersen’s ban on...

Paradigm Shift (4ZZZ fm 102.1 Fridays at noon) February 26, 2021 This week we talk all about weapons expos. Inspired by the upcoming "Land Forces 2021", we hear Zelda Grimshaw talk about how Australian manufactured weapons end up killing West Papuan civilians, and Iain McIntyre about how protestors shut down the AIDEX weapons fair for good in the early 90's. www.disruptlandforces.org Playlist Aire...

Sound accompanying Harry M Miller's Queen's Silver Jubilee on 3 Dec 1977 in Queens Street, Brisbane . Thousands of troops blocked the streets for two and a half hours. Only two hours later and a block away there was a march for democratic rights by 3,000 trade unionists and citizens. 210 people were arrested by 700 police forming a blockade in Albert Street. The narrators were Leslie Mannison and...

Paradigm Shift - Vlad Laws In Queensland - 8 Nov 2013 PShift (4ZZZ fm 102.1 Noon on Fridays) interviewed the attorney general, Jarrod Bleijie, about the rise to power of  Vlad's gang and his attempt to put its leader in jail for 400 years. In introducing the toughest laws in the world, Vlad's nemesis Bleijie seems to have taken Monty Python’s satire, the Piranha Brothers, to heart. Fitzgerald crit...

Paradigm Shift 1 Nov 2013 Ian talks with Otway Ranges Environmental Network OREN spokesperson and Andy Paine, sometime forest blockader. This is the story the Otways Ranges Environment Network (OREN), a diverse grassroots network of people who devoted seven years of their lives to successfully end clearfell logging and woodchipping of biodiverse native forest in the Otways Ranges. Many in OREN suf...

Paradigm Shift 25 Oct 2013

Welcome to the Paradigm Shift on FM 102.1 4ZZZ Fridays at noon. We challenge the assumptions of our current society, to resist oppression ... February 19, 2021 This week we speak to GU Emeritus Professor Ian Lowe about the US alliance and the way it affects Australian environmental sustainability. Playlist Redgum - Lear jets over Kulgera Carla Geneve - red rocks Lisa & Tony - Planet Kev Carmody -...

Architecture students re-presenting UQ Union complex Ian talks with Postgrad architecture students, Adele Mammone, Thomas Webster and Ali Rad Yousefnia who are offering their alternative to wholesale demolition of UQ Union complex and a new vision of the University - a social alternative to running it as 'a business, a very bad one'. They want things like an open space run by students, a co-op, fr...

Liberal MP Terry Gygar resigns and police arrest 4BK's Wayne Roberts. "The Bellevue Hotel and Cloudland recordings demonstrate 4ZZZs efforts at raising public awareness of heritage issues in the past. Image: Boggo Road jail

These are 4ZZZ reports of the Boggo Road Jail Riots where 1/3 of the jail is burnt down down because of inhuman conditions inside. There is an interview with Prisons Minister Muntz who said that 'if they don't like the food let them starve'. Image: Boggo Road jail

4ZZZ reports describe the demolition of Cloudland ballroom and efforts at raising public awareness of heritage issues. Joint efforts were held there and many of Brisbane schools kids had their exams at Cloudland. Image: Cloudland ballroom

Megaherzzz promo. Aboriginal Land Rights interview with Joh Bjelke-Petersen. On Wednesday 14 December 1988 right wing University of Qld Student Unions attempted to evict 4ZZZ from its studios under the Refectory. At 4.17am executive members of the UQ Student Council and four security guards served an immediate eviction notice on Darren a volunteer announcer doing the graveyard shift. 4ZZZ had been...

The UQU Forum - 6 September 1977 - First 10 mins two days after street marches were banned. The Forum recording is by 4PR - Voice for the People who helped organise speak outs in that place in 1976-78. The tape demonstrates how the Union complex was used in the past, as a place for organising and discussion. Image: Dan O'Neill arrested in the 'Valley of Death' after the ban on street marches in 19...

"The Bellevue Hotel and Cloudland recordings demonstrate 4ZZZs efforts at raising public awareness of heritage issues in the past. There is some about conflict with the Union, mainly relating to 4ZZZs eviction from the Union Complex. Boggo Road Riots and Expo 88 relate to social issues. Pig City.. etc. is a collection of music that 4ZZZ were playing in the 70s and 80s, starting with Pig City and T...

"The Bellevue Hotel and Cloudland recordings demonstrate 4ZZZs efforts at raising public awareness of heritage issues in the past. There is some about conflict with the Union, mainly relating to 4ZZZs eviction from the Union Complex. Boggo Road Riots and Expo 88 relate to social issues. Pig City.. etc. is a collection of music that 4ZZZ were playing in the 70s and 80s, starting with Pig City and T...

Discussion with Adele, Tom and Ali about alternatives to current proposal for UQU building complex. Image: Lachlan Kennedy Schonell Theatre Section 1:100 "The aim of this exhibition piece is to showcase the elaborate architecture within the building's interior; where angled timber ceiling panels and brick colonnades to the side aisles contrast with the rectilinear exterior the building. In additio...

Discussion with Adele, Tom and Ali about alternatives to current proposal for UQU building complex. Image: Damien Baptiste "''The Theatre of Memory' is a three-dim-ensionainl interactive artwork which represents the tangible and intangible aspects of the Schonell Theatre. The artwork is made up of layers each featuring manipulated materials represent, the theatre. Each layer presents a cut out sec...

Discussion with Adele, Tom and Ali about alternatives to current proposal for UQU building complex. Ian recognises himself in one of the exhibits.

Interview with Amin Afravi, Medivac refugee held against his will at Brisbane International Transit Accomodation (BITA)in Feb 2021. Image shows wounds sustained by Amin after his throat was cut by one of the G4S guards in PNG. Questions 1. What treatment (if any) you have received for your medical conditions since you arrived at Kangaroo Point in Brisbane in 2019? 2. How and when you were taken to...

Q&A At launch of the film, Wild Things, a year on the Frontline of Environmental Activism featuring Bob Brown, Sally Ingleton, and Andy Paine. Chairperson - Debra Beattie. The film was screened and Q & A held at the New Farm Cinema in Brisbane on 29th Jan 2021.

On Paradigm Shift (4ZZZ fm 102.1) we talk about about neo-nazism in Australia. It’s been in the news recently overseas, but how much of a presence and threat is it in Australia? And how do we resist it to create an inclusive society? We speak with Jeff Sparrow, author of the book “Fascists Among Us” about online neo-nazi culture; and anti-fascist activist, Tom Tanuki.

The song is called “Gari Gynda Narmi” or sometimes written as “Gurri Ngindin Narmi“. This version is by a songman, Uncle Country Matheson, who passed away a few years ago. The song is sacred and recorded as an intro to the Paradigm Shift by permission from Uncle Country's sister. Gari Gynda Narmi is originally a Waka Waka song, but with the dispersal and cross-pollination of aboriginal cultures (p...

The song is called “Gari Gynda Narmi” or sometimes written as “Gurri Ngindin Narmi“. This version is by a songman, Uncle Country Matheson, who passed away a few years ago. The song is sacred and recorded as an intro to the Paradigm Shift by permission from Uncle Country's sister. Gari Gynda Narmi is originally a Waka Waka song, but with the dispersal and cross-pollination of aboriginal cultures (p...

Welcome By Sam Watson, Invasion Day 2010