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#19BOS Action: Biennale of Sydney and Transfield [5.30pm, Monday, February 24, Melbourne]

Posted on February 19, 2014 by @ndy

Monday in Melbourne: Stage a creative protest outside ACCA during their talk promoting the 19th Biennale of Sydney, in order to draw attention to Transfield’s sponsorship of the event. Please share ideas regarding peaceful, creative actions that can be undertaken … Continue reading →

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Open letter from artists to the Board of Directors of the Biennale of Sydney [#19BOS]

Posted on February 19, 2014 by @ndy

19 February 2014 To the Board of Directors of the Biennale of Sydney, We are a group of artists ­— Gabrielle de Vietri, Bianca Hester, Charlie Sofo, Nathan Gray, Deborah Kelly, Matt Hinkley, Benjamin Armstrong, Libia Castro, Ólafur Ólafsson, Sasha … Continue reading →

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Rally and march v Napthine’s Silencing Act: 10am, Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Posted on February 17, 2014 by @ndy

Yeah so there’s a rally (at Trades Hall) and march (to Parliament) tomorrow to protest Premier Napthine’s new laws (Summary Offences and Sentencing Amendment Bill 2013 plus) intended to repress community and union pickets and make the public understand they’re … Continue reading →

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Boycott the 19th Biennale of Sydney [#19bos]

Posted on February 14, 2014 by @ndy

[Update (February 19) : The boycott campaign now has a website and Facebook page.] A few weeks ago Matt Kiem wrote ‘An art educator’s open letter to colleagues about detention profits and the Sydney Biennale’ (Crossborder Operational Matters, February 4, … Continue reading →

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A rose … [on anarchy and summit protest and stuff | overland]

Posted on February 10, 2014 by @ndy

I wrote some stuff for overland zine about the phony ‘Black Rose Syndicat’, black blocs and teh anarchy. You can find it here. It was inspired by Clive Williams’ rather poor article in The Canberra Times, which you can read … Continue reading →

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The WikiLeaks Party’s administrative error [Crikey]

Posted on February 7, 2014 by @ndy

The ‘highly emotional and volatile’ world of the WikiLeaks Party Bernard Keane Crikey February 7, 2014 The aftermath of the WikiLeaks Party’s electoral debut reached a new and unexpected level of farce today when the party released its much-heralded “independent … Continue reading →

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Who’s Keeping An Eye on Aussie Neo-Nazis? [newmatilda]

Posted on January 23, 2014 by @ndy

So I wrote another thing for New Matilda, this time on nazisinstraya. You can read it here. That’s all for now.

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ASIO and the Communist Party: New Light on an Old Tradition (Phillip Deery, 2007)

Posted on January 14, 2014 by @ndy

[The second episode of the documentary Persons of Interest screens tonight (January 14, 2014) on SBS at 8.30. It's prompted me to publish the following ...] Phillip Deery (2007), ‘ASIO and the Communist Party: New Light on an Old Tradition’, … Continue reading →

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WikiLeaks Party : R U Syrias?

Posted on January 13, 2014 by @ndy

John Shipton, CEO of the WikiLeaks Party (and Assange’s old man), recently sat down for a nice cup of tea with that nice man Bashar al-Assad, President of Syria and General Secretary of the Ba’ath Party (Bashar was of course … Continue reading →

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ASIO : Persons of Interest : Interview with director Haydn Keenan

Posted on January 10, 2014 by @ndy

PERSONS OF INTEREST – Trailer from Smart Street Films on Vimeo. Tonight on ‘The SUWA Show’ (5.30pm, 855AM, streaming at 3CR.org.au), Dr Cam & I have a chat with Haydn Keenan, the director of ‘Persons of Interest’, a new documentary … Continue reading →

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