Workers BushTelegraph

This week we talk with Diego Sequera from Mision Verdad in Venezuela about the attempt by the United States government to orchestrate a coup in his country. Firstly some background, Hugo Chavez nationalised Venezuelan oil in the late 1990s and … Continue reading →

The ladder of law has no top and no bottom – Bob Dylan ‘The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll’ Six years of people exposing the public trustee’ for failure to look after its clients finances, the Attorney General Yvette D’Arth … Continue reading →

This is a video the Tate Gallery in London made about the artist Richard Bell. They used some images from Guniwaya Ngigu (We Fight) that the Radical Times Archive supplied with the filmmaker Madeline McGrady’s blessing …

The state government announced approval for the Adani mine today.So state and federal governments have won the trifecta, on climate change at least. They have determined to ignore it in favour of the economy. They have beaten opponents of the … Continue reading →

20 years ago Australians rejected a republic in a national referendum. The model proposed was to substitute an Australian President for the Queen. This president was to be elected by the executive and not the people. Unsurprisingly Australians rejected this. … Continue reading →

Here is an excellent summary of  new ‘anti-terrorism’ laws in Australia by Bevan Ramsden (APAN). Recently a regular WBT correspondent claimed that: “Manning & Assange were sold out by the anti-war movement that incited & abandoned them.“ Please note that WBT … Continue reading →

The first radical house I lived in was in Austral Street St Lucia in Brisbane. I lived there from 1975 ~1977. At Austral Street I met people involved in agitating for public transport, independent media, opposition to uranium mining and … Continue reading →

We post this article here because Logan council wishes to buy up land on Chambers Flat Road Munruben to widen a connecting road and build a new bridge. Yet the proposed road and bridge is on a floodplain. After the … Continue reading →

It looks like the Save the UQ Union Complex has got Matt Condon onside! Condon is the author of All Fall Down.

WBT was sent this article by a regular contributor. We would be interested in your comments. __oOo__ This letter to coal miners etc is in my opinion an excellent example of how the environment movement needs to start interacting with … Continue reading →

This gallery contains 1 photos.

Jamie Larcombe was just nineteen When he signed up for the Operation The Generals called ‘SLIPPER’ Code for global war In Afghanistan, Middle East and the Gulf of Aden No medals will bring Jamie home, That boy from Kangaroo Island– … Continue reading →

espionage (noun) … the practice of spying or of using spies, typically by governments to obtain political and military information. – Oxford Dictionary The Falcon and the Snowman It is as if Trump has thrown us back to the Cold … Continue reading →

Friends, On Tuesday morning, Brisbane ABC Radio did a story on our heritage application and then ran a poll. The response was very heartening. Let’s capitalise on this with lots of submissions in support of the application. Individuals, theatre groups, … Continue reading →

Queensland man Jeremy Lee worked for a company called Superior Wood and he successfully represented himself after he refused to sign-on and sign-off using a finger print scanner. He argued that the bosses were stealing his bio-metric data and, under … Continue reading →

Written submissions quoting the HRN 650238 must be received by 7 June 2019 and should be lodged with: Executive Officer, Heritage Branch Department of Environment and Science GPO Box 2454 BRISBANE QLD 4001
Or email: heritage@des.qld.gov.au Continue reading →

This gallery contains 1 photos.

In the wake of a dismal result in the 2019 Federal Election people are asking where to now. As a contest of ideas the election was a failure. Morrison’s steady-as-she-goes capitalism and Shorten’s minimalist plan for social democratic wealth redistribution … Continue reading →

This gallery contains 1 photos.

The association of graduates in Cuba adopted a statement by which it demands the end of the blockade against our country and joins the international rejection of the new sanctions imposed by the American government against Cuba, especially against the activation of Title III of The Helms-Burton law. Continue reading →

2019 Federal Election in Australia There was an expectation that Labor would win the 2019 federal election. Bob Hawke died on the eve of the poll and the opposition leader, Bill Shorten, said ‘let’s do it for Bob’. Labor’s failure … Continue reading →

This gallery contains 13 photos.

Hawke was the first leader of the ACTU who did not come from the shop floor, he started a trend where workers were led by people from another class. Continue reading →