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Review of the book 'Seeking Asylum' by refugees published by the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre in Melbourne. Summary Review of our stories by. 0:00 Abdul’s story about an Hazara coming from Afghanistan. 2:05 The right to seek asylum under Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It is NOT a crime. 4:14 The War in Vietnam and the refugees it created. 5:55 You can make a life in Australia despite the...

Under the mask of the Olympics the Brisbane City Council and state government are privatising public areas. For example we were told that the Roma Street forum (Emma Miller place) near City Hall was to be left alone by the new cross river rail development. This was a lie. ... Councillor Sriranganathan and State member for Kurilpa, Amy McMahon, have both come out against these new developments. Son...

Ramzy Baroud explains the transition that is occurring in Palestine that seeks to break with factionalism and the Palestinian Authority. He is the editor of the Palestine Chronicle at https://www.palestinechronicle.com/ Song Phil Monsour - we will go home Image Huwwara

Will Europe force the US and Russia back from the brink? Seymour Hersh outlines Biden's reasoning in blowing up the Nord Stream pipelines Prof John Mearsheimer criticises the US for starting the war, providing possible outcomes. Ian Curr provides some analysis of the tense standoff that has arisen between the West and Russia. Excerpts from film Dr Strangelove. The conversation is between Group Cap...

The human cost behind a strike at the University of Queensland on 22 Feb 2023. Music Piano prelude from 'Rivermouth'

“To be an enemy of the US is dangerous, but to be a friend is fatal” – Henry Kissinger, former US Secretary of State. On September 26, 2022, a series of explosions destroyed the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines, which shipped natural gas from Russia to Germany. 0:00 Act of war against Russia. 1:56 Attack on Nord Stream pipelines. 3:56 From its earliest days Nord Stream 1 was seen by Washington as a t...

Comment on Humphrey McQueen's (author of New Britannia) questioning of when Australia was invaded. Song 'Sixteen straws' by the Drones Image Painting of John Batman's treaty with the Kulin Nation in Port Phillip district in 1838.

The Cape Grim massacre in Van Diemen's land in 1828. This is part of a project of truth telling that is documented on Workers BushTelegraph. Ian Curr 7 Feb 2023 Song Gins Leap by Paddy McHugh Picture of Cape Grim captured from Rachael Perkins 'Australian Wars'

“My expectation is in the next two months or so, Julian #Assange will be released.” – ABC Global Affairs Editor John Lyons. "Americans will always do the right thing, only after they have tried everything else." - Winston Churchill. On 4ZZZ Paradigm Shift show we get an update on the status of imprisoned activist and journalist Julian Assange. John Jiggens interviews John Shipton (Julian’s father)...

Sam Watson We've had a long connection with country so my mob, part of the Chepara people from the Yuggera language group. And our country, our family's country fans from down the border ranges, they're right the way through the Logan River, and up north to the sunshine coast. So this is special country. And there are very important sites and ceremony places right the way along through this throug...

Book launch in 1988 of 'These things shall be! Bob Ross, socialist pioneer, his life and times, a case study' by Edgar Ross introduced by Bob Ross, Edgar's son and Bob's grandson. Edgar Ross, the former editor of the miners paper, Common Cause, wrote a book about his father Robert Samuel Ross who was one of the early founders of the labour movement in Australia. The book, 'These things shall be! :...

Terry Fitzpatrick: "Just adding a few verses to Colin Buchanan’s wonderful version of Waltzing Matilda. These verses I believe make this song’s attempt to paint a picture of AUSTRALIA a little bit broader."

Max Chandler - Mather on Israeli Apartheid In Federation Chamber On 2022 - 11 - 22 Petition - https://www.change.org/StopIsraeliMurders Song Teila (Ancestress) Watson - One by One

Dr. Hawari is a Palestinian academic and writer living in occupied Palestine from where she delivered her talk Palestine Remembered in honour of Edward Said. Imagining a Palestinian Future: Re-internationalising the Palestinian Struggle - Dr Yari Hawari Introducing Dr. Yara Hawaii. 0:00 Underpinnings of the Zionist narrative. 1:48 “Another world is not only possible, it’s also a very clear refusal...

Sign the petition to end travel restrictions on Palestinians fleeing Israeli violence on the West Bank @ https://www.change.org/p/israel-s-ethnic-cleansing-of-palestine We are trying to assist a family from a refugee camp on the West Bank whose apartment has been raided and trashed by Israeli occupation forces. Their youngest son has been threatened and his phone smashed. The reason why the Israel...

Sign the petition at https://www.change.org/p/israel-s-ethnic-cleansing-of-palestine

Petition at https://www.change.org/p/israel-s-ethnic-cleansing-of-palestine To the Hon. Speaker of the House of Representatives and Members of the House of Representatives This is a petition for the Australian government to relax travel restrictions on Palestinians fleeing Israeli violence by occupation forces in the West Bank and Gaza. Please provide your name and email address in the comments se...

Cameron Dick and Paul Lucas led the surge toward privatisation under the Bligh government, selling off the public’s largest asset, Queensland Rail. Jarrod Bleiijie had a hand in Campbell-Newman’s sacking 14,000 Queensland public servants in 2012 – 2015. It was Bleiijie and his CEO who told Bernie Neville (I was a witness) in August 2012 that he just had to accept that a Labor (spelt with a ‘u’: ‘c...

On today's show we hear about resistance to the International Mining And Resources Conference happening presently in Sydney. Andy speaks to Jonah Shabtay from live at the protests, to Marisol Salinas about organising an international counter-conference, and to lawyer Anastasia Radievska about some of the most ridiculous over the top policing of protest we have seen in a long time. Songs Lasso - Ne...

Paradigm Shift began covering this story in 2009. Since then a Kalkadoon woman and her son have been told lies by the Public Trustee of Queensland. They have been in every court in the land and still have not recovered the property stolen by the Public Trustee. Here is their story as told by themselves and their partner and step-father, John Tracey. Songs Theresa Creed - Mother of Mine Daniel (Dee...

Paradigm Shift on 4ZZZ 2022-10-28 Today we get an update from Deebing Creek - the former Aboriginal mission and massacre site which for the last three years has been home to the Toolmoor Truth and Healing Embassy. Developers have started bulldozing trees on the site this week and right now the Deebing Creek Protectors are conducting a ceremony to stop the machines. We speak with Daniel Thompson an...

Terry Gross interview with Reem Kassis on Palestinian Food. Image of the land of the Kassis family near the Galillee.

Report from the eighth day of the Israeli blockade of Nablus. Image - Nida Ibrahim with the button of her murdered colleague Shireen on her shirt. Song - The ghosts of Deir Yassin by Phil Monsour Transcript and story at https://workersbushtelegraph.com.au/2022/10/26/nablus-the-fire-this-time/

Stand with us - Phil Monsour https://www.philmonsour.com/ See video at https://youtu.be/uezDk8wXzTA

On the morning of 20 Oct 2022 the renters union SEQUR held a demonstration outisde a sham housing summit called by the government on behalf of landlords ... this is what the renters had to say. Song Phil Monsour - Stand with us