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Today on the Paradigm Shift we look at the remarkable electoral success of the Greens in Brisbane. I speak to their two successful campaign managers Liam Flenady (Griffith seat) and Esther Vale (Ryan) about how the campaigns built, what it means for Australian politics right now, and their hopes for parliament. 12-1pm, 102.1fm or 4zzz.org.au (where you can also podcast it later).

The Liberal Party has suffered an historic defeat under Morrison and both major parties have had their lowest ever primary vote with only 35% voting LNP and 32% voting Labor. About 12% voted Green. The Liberals are such dills ignoring the secular base of the party for the religious right. Morrison even brought in his own candidates in NSW. People who do not represent their community and so lost ou...

How and why Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Aqleh was assasinated by Israeli occupation forces. Song Phil Monsour & Rafeef Ziadah - Ghosts of Deir Yassin

Workers BushTelegraph has put together a comprehensive podcast of the celebrations and included comments, interviews and speeches from the various union and labour leaders and workers . Workers of all countries Unite!

Vote 1 for Bernie Moloney's Anti-Eviction Party! Song Jumping Fences - View from a Wooden Chair

Exodus and the Wailers – Traffic jam as played on 4ZZZ

This week on the Paradigm Shift is a special episode where you get to hear the fruits of my labour digging through the 4ZZZ CD library. I spent a while digitising old CDs that had fallen through the cracks and today on the show play a selection of mostly forgotten political songs from the compact disc era! Exodus and the Wailers -Traffic jam Ken BootheIs - it because I'm black? Steve Towson - The...

Paradigm Shift on four triple Zed 102.1FM Andy: This week’s show is a May Day workers special. Andy asks Queensland Council of Unions general secretary Michael Clifford some existential questions about the role of unions in 2022, plus offer some musings of his own on what makes a working class analysis actually useful. And some great union songs! Mat Ward The workers united will never be defeated...

Qld ALP Premier speaks on May Day 2022. I start by acknowledging the traditional owners of the country. But can I say friends? Isn't it lovely to celebrate Labor Day in May. The Labor government did that to return Labor Day to its rightful spot? It was a greatest thing everyone marching today ... standing up for the rights of workers across this state. And thank you for everything you do for the w...

Qld Council of Unions secretary Michael Clifford speaks on May Day 2022. Thanks, Kate. Thanks, everybody for being here. One quick fact, Workers share of productivity. So all of those things that workers created this country, workers share of that; wages share of that; is at an all time low, it's down to 46%. It's as low as it's been since the 1960s. When we previously had a Conservative governmen...

Anthony Albanese speaks at annual May Day rally in Brisbane on 2 May 2022.

Sally McManus (ACTU Secretary) speaking on May Day 2022 in Brisbane /Meanjin. Hello Brisbane, Yay! Scott Morrison is gotta go doesn’t he? Did you just say yes? Scott Morrison is gotta go. You know what? That bloke says it’s not his job to support us getting pay rises. (Shame) It’s pretty interesting, isn’t it? Because there’s a hell of a lot of things that do not seem to be his job. Remember, the...

Ben Jones - Nuigi Clan Of Quandamooka - gives May Day 'Welcome to Country' at Exhibition Grounds Brisbane / Meanjin on 2 May 2022. Gurri Ngindin Narmi … words of welcome to this place, welcome people from all directions. Welcome to Barrambin. The windy place of many waterholes in the language of the Jagger are people the traditional name for what we know now as Victoria Park and it surrounds. My n...

On 3 Feb 2011, during a smoking ceremony at the Qld museum Wayne ‘Coco’ Wharton, a Kooma man from Cunnamulla in Western Queensland, extracted a promise from then Lord Mayor of Brisbane, Campbell-Newman, that Murri warriors, Dundalee and Watego, would be honoured. Discussions took place about the best way to do that. Campbell Newman who attended the ceremony at the Queensland museum never lived up...

Jumping Fences Sing Cuban Songs at Finale of Australia to Cuba with Love campaign on 16 April 2022 in Brisbane.

Lachlan Hurse speaks at the finale of the 'From Australia to Cuba with Love' Campaign on 16 April 2022

Ivan - Cuban Institute of Friendship with the People speaks at the finale of the 'From Australia to Cuba with Love' Campaign in Brisbane/Meanjin on 16 Apri 2022.

Ivan - Cuban Institute of Friendship with the People Ariel Lorenzo Rodriguez - Cuban Ambassador to Australia Sue Monk - Australia Cuba Friendship Society (Brisbane)

16 April 2022 Sue Monk - Australia Cuba Friendship Society (Brisbane) speaks at the finale of the 'From Australia to Cuba with Love' Campaign. So with the campaign occurring in this way, one of the other things we did to try and get our message out was to print these T shirts and riding jerseys as well. And we've had some, as the COVID restriction started to relax a little, we were able to do some...

Andy Paine We are talking about political prisoners today on the paradigm shift. And I spoke to Ciaron O'Reilly this morning from COVID isolation, actually, Ciaron has plenty of experience, both being in prison and supporting other people in prison. For over recent decades and in all parts of the world, I started off by asking him a bit about his experiences as a prison and a prisoner supporter. S...

Dr Peter Catt - Dean of St John's Anglican Cathedral and Chair of the Australian Churches Refugee Taskforce speaks at Palm Sunday Rally in Brisbane/Meanjin on 10 April 2022

Contrasting Spending On Defence With That Spent On Climate Change Mitigation - Radio Program for CICD’s Alternative News broadcast on 3CR by Andrew and Bevan.

Andy (Paradigm Shift 4ZZZ fm 102.1 Fridays at Noon) live from the Brisbane magistrates court, where Jim Dowling is on trial for disrupting Thales' war machine. UPDATE: The charges have been dropped! A small victory for the people against the war machine! Songs St Mary's Choir sings - If I had a Hammer Christine sings 'Step by Step' Jenny sings 'No Money'

Here we are today, meeting gathering on Aboriginal land, land that was never seated. And we are also gathering at a venue that the defence minister, Mr. Dutton will be addressing a lunch of representatives of military corporations, military corporations, who are the ones who are really the only winners in war and militarism. -Annette Brownlie (Just Peace) 18 Mar 2022,

St Mary's Choir Sing 'If I Had A Hammer' by LeftPress