The Queensland capital is getting ready to lock down for a two-day meeting of world leaders in mid-November. More than $171 million has been allocated to βcity improvement worksβ in an effort by the government βto help Brisbane shineβ in time for the G20 summit.
Homeless people will be offered hotel rooms, bins will be sealed to prevent bomb concealment, public transport will be affected and roads will be closed.
The G20 βred zoneβ will encompass the central business district and Spring Hill along with much of Kangaroo Point, Fortitude Valley and South Brisbane.
Aboriginal rights
Adrian Newstead was one of the first people to study climate change in Australia. "I went to a place called the Barren Grounds, which were down the New South Wales south coast down near Kangaroo Valley," the 66-year-old tells ΒιΆΉΣ³» Weekly.
Aboriginal communities from across Australia met in Brisbane on July 11 to attend a day of protest and planning against the ongoing .
Aunty Karen Fusi from the Brisbane Aboriginal Sovereign Embassy and Aunty Hazel Collins from Grandmothers Against Removal Gunnedah told the that child removal is having devastating effects on families and communities.
A forum titled βAn Aboriginal Perspective on Inequality, The Intervention, Racism and Struggleβ was held on May 6 in Adelaide. Hosted by the South Australia Aboriginal Coalition for Social Justice, the Socialist Alliance and SIMpla, the forum heard from an all-Aboriginal panel including Brisbane Aboriginal Sovereign Embassy member Boe Spearim and Northern Territory-based activist Amelia Kunoth-Monks.
This article on 10 thought-provoking lyrics from Native rap artists in the US first appeared at Indian Country Today Media Network.
Invasion Day 2014 Mixtape
Brisbane Blacks
Released January 26, 2014
www.1stnationsmobb.bandcamp.com
As countless Australians donned their Cronulla capes and sank slabs of piss this Australia Day, non-profit publication marked the occasion by releasing a free album full of protest songs.
The released this statement on January 16.
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Aboriginal Australians have the oldest continuous cultures and languages in the world. The first peoples cared for country for thousands of years and have intimate knowledge of its unique environment.
Instead of helping to protect, learn from and collaborate with this knowledge, the Coalition government continues to endanger and destroy Aboriginal culture.
ΒιΆΉΣ³» Weekly is taking a break for the summer from December 11 to January 22. To fill the void, it asked staff, contributors and others to recommend their favourite books of the year.
Tap Tap New Dub City Raspect Records November 18, 2013 www.newdubcity.com Melbourne dub-rap-reggae collective New Dub City have just released their politically punchy and sonically spotless second album, Tap Tap. Frontman, producer and Ali MC spoke to ΒιΆΉΣ³» Weekly's Mat Ward.
An article by journalist Elizabeth Farrelly, published in the Sydney Morning Herald on April 11 titled βProtecting a cultural right to abuseβ, starts by posing the question, βAt what point does autonomy slide into apartheid?β
There are at least two truisms in Aboriginal affairs. The first is that the more things change, the more they stay the same. Iβll come back to that one. The second is that the road through Aboriginal affairs, while often paved with good intentions, is sometimes paved with bad ones.
Iβm going to assume that when Minister for Indigenous Affairs, Jenny Macklin held a gun to the head of Alice Springs town campers and told them that unless they signed over their land for 40 years it would be compulsorily acquired, that her intentions were good.
This Invasion Day, a mob of Aboriginal rappers released a free mixtape to show solidarity with the in Turtle Island, the body of land now known as North America.
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