Life is worth nothing if in the end I can’t change
what surrounds me, what I have and what protects me
and that’s why, for me,
Life is worth nothing.
– Pablo Milanese

Sad to hear … Jumping Fences version of ‘Candle de Nieve‘ sends shivers down my spine.… Go to Article

These are questions to the attorney general of Queensland, Shannon Fentiman, concerning corruption and mal-administration at the Qld public trustees office from 2009 till 2020.

2009

March 23 Peter Carne appointed as public trustee (PT)

2011

8 Dec Video of meeting between (can’t be named because of Guardianship laws) with his friends and the Public Trustee and his officers.… Go to Article

News from Palestine is not good. The Israeli occupation forces have increased the intensity of their attacks on people in the West Bank and in Gaza. (See video about settler violence in Hebron and the Australian Friends of Palestine podcast below).

Strong support for Petition

This week (ending 20 Nov 2022) was our 4th week campaigning to assist a family from a refugee camp on the West Bank whose apartment has been raided and trashed by Israeli occupation forces.… Go to Article

The tribute “Malcolm Bell – Man of God 1944-2022” may well be how some people in the church saw Malcolm but I remember a different Malcolm Bell.… Go to Article

We post this report from refugee advocate, Ian Rintoul, just returned from Indonesia. Ian was abducted in the nicest way by Afghans ! He spent long days with desperate people. Well worth a read, Ian Curr Ed. 19 November 2022.

https://www.solidarity.net.au/highlights/australias-other-offshore-hell-lift-the-ban-on-refugees-in-indonesia/… Go to Article

On Tuesday, 22 November 1972, three Liberal members of the South Australian parliament mimicked the State’s mannequin of the year at a Party fund-raiser for the Federal election due on 2 December. Their photo appeared on the front page of next day’s Adelaide Advertiser.

Meanwhile, on the front page of the Australian there was a black-and-white photo of Labor premier Don Dunstan in the pink pants that he had worn into the Legislative Assembly.… Go to Article

Recently WBT received some hate mail from a former medical student. “Judy” claimed that a Big Ride for Palestine (Australia) petition was “anti-semitic”. This petition is simply asking the Australian government to relax its travel restrictions on Palestinians fleeing state violence by Israel.

Here is an eloquent response to those that ‘look away’ written by Tony Delamothe, then a deputy editor of the British Medical Journal (BMJ).… Go to Article

Sad little (German) story from today’s Guardian. It’s eloquent testimony to the dark, dishonest times in which we live – WBT reader

Some of the leading names of British theatre and film have criticised the cancellation of a prestigious lifetime award to the playwright Caryl Churchill because of her support for Palestinian rights, saying the move is “nothing less than modern-day McCarthyism”.… Go to Article

Yesterday (16 Nov 2022) Greens member for Griffith Max Chandler-Mather agreed to support a petition by Khalil Hamden and the big ride for Palestine to the Prime Minister. We ask the Prime Minister to relax travel restrictions for Palestinians fleeing murders by Israeli occupations forces on the West Bank and the Gaza strip.… Go to Article

I have been trying to get my car fixed (a 12 yr old Subaru) for about 9 months. The parts had to come from Japan … at least that is what they said … I waited 8 months and the wrong part had been ordered. So I asked the repair shop to order the right part … one month later it has still not turned up.… Go to Article

The Family of a victim of the Queensland Public Trustee has written an open letter to the Premier of Queensland asking her to unblock the blockage to justice in their case before the Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal (QCAT).

The victim is a forty year old Aboriginal man with disabilities living in Brisbane. … Go to Article

During the worst month of murder in the worst year of war crimes, Western governments like Australia stupidly refuse to recognise Palestine as a state in the UN general assembly. It is time they recognise Palestine and accept the right of people under occupation to resist.

Just as Khalil Hamdan predicted, Israeli occupation forces murdered Palestinian 15-year-old girl the day before her birthday on 14 November 2022.… Go to Article

It is important to reflect on Australia’s reaction to the invasion of East Timor by Indonesia and compare it with the anger and dismay at the invasion of Afghanistan, Iraq, and now Ukraine. For 16 years I listened to Gough Whitlam’s narrative of denial. Keating still boasts of his relationship with Indonesia during a period of genocide of the East Timorese by Indonesian military.… Go to Article

This is to give preliminary notice of our next upcoming meeting, the last for this year.  It will be addressed by Trevor Berrill, the extraordinary  Sustainable Energy Systems Consultant and Educator.

Trevor will already be familiar to many of you.  For he has previously given a number of excellent talks to the 17 Group, notable for their detailed factual basis, cogency of argumentation, and attractiveness of presentation.… Go to Article

Salvatore D’Urso

born 26/5/1927, died 16/6/2022.

Most people would have known him as Ted D’Urso, but his given name was Salvatore D’Urso. For he was proudly Sicilian on both his father and his mother’s side. They were both immigrants from Sicily and part of the famous ‘Red North’ that was later to elect the only Commu- nist ever, Fred Paterson, as a mem- ber of an Australian parliament.… Go to Article

FARHA is part of the palestinian film festival and is on at the dendy at Coorparoo this Friday evening at 6.30pm

Fourteen-year-old Farha dreams of attending school in the city with her best friend Farida but she knows that, as the daughter of the mukhtar (the head of the village), she is in for an uphill battle against tradition.… Go to Article

I’m still Dreaming of a Black Xmas stamp

In 1962, a columnist with the Melbourne Herald noted that a 16^th century sculpture of Madonna and Child would be on that year’s Christmas stamp. He went on to praise ‘Our Lady of the Aborigines’ as ’a real Australian Madonna and Child,’ before asking, ‘How about it for next year.… Go to Article

The United States is stepping up its war preparations in NT to use Australia as a launching pad for war

The IPAN National Conference in Canberra, 22-24th November is timely and an opportunity for peace activists to exchange views and plan and organise urgent peace action.

Register for the public meeting and conference here:
 Film & Public Meeting Tuesday evening registration:
                                  https://www.trybooking.com/CDGYF… Go to Article