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The Big Red Book Fair is back for 2025
bigger, redder, and with more books than ever!
Saturday 21 June 2025
9.00 am to 5.00 pm
ETU ballroom of Trades Hall, enter via Lygon Street.
Join NIBS for our biggest event of the year - $3 second-hand books, 10% off new books and the chance to support Melbourne's longest running leftist bookshop. This year the fair will be in the ETU Ballroom, enter via Lygon Street. Can't wait to see you there.
If you have any books or posters to donate, please contact the bookshop at [email protected]. Cheers!
Final days for this important exhibition Towards Truth ... at Hurstville Library daily up to 1 June 2025
To mark Reconciliation Week, Hurstville Library invites you to explore the Towards Truth Exhibition. Learn how NSW laws and policies have impacted Aboriginal peoples, and how Aboriginal communities have fought back to resist injustice and demand their rights.
The exhibition will be on display during library opening hours, 9am to 8pm Monday to Friday and 10am to 5pm Saturday and Sunday, excluding public holidays.
Towards Truth is an award-winning website that aims to advance the
Uluru Statement from the Heart by providing a resource to strengthen community truth-telling through documenting how decisions of Parliaments and Governments have impacted Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples from 1788 until today. The website compiles laws, policies and parliamentary debates, alongside expert analysis and contemporary case studies.
Towards Truth compels us to reflect on Australia’s history and consider how the decisions of the past have brought us to where we are today.
Visit the
Towards Truth Exhibition to learn more about how the legal system has suppressed or secured Aboriginal rights relating to fishing and hunting, stolen wages and participation in democracy. Designed to promote a shared understanding of injustices, this exhibition also tells a story of Aboriginal resilience and resistance.Towards Truth will appeal to anyone with an interest in history and Truth-Telling.
a webinar being run by the Healing Foundation
National Sorry Day webinar
Date: Wednesday, 28 May 2025
Time: 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM AEST
Location: Online (Webinar link provided upon registration)
Register here: https://shorturl.at/yLX6l
Join the Healing Foundation for the National Sorry Day 2025 Webinar — a time to reflect, learn, and stand in solidarity with Stolen Generation survivors.
This year marks 28 years since the Bringing them home report was tabled in Parliament — a powerful truth-telling moment that called for justice. This year the message is clear: We cannot wait another generation to act on the priority Bringing them home recommendations in 2025.
Be part of this important conversation, led by The Healing Foundation CEO Shannan Dodson (Yawuru) alongside Stolen Generations survivors Ian Hamm (Yorta Yorta) and Aunty Yvonne Mills (Kokatha/Mirning).
Together, let’s honour truth, support healing, and commit to meaningful change.
KEEP SPACE FOR PEACE!
TUESDAY 27 MAY 2025
8.00am-9.00am
ICC SPACE SUMMIT PROTEST
OUTSIDE ICC (International Convention Centre,14 Darling Drive. Travel by L1 Dulwich Hill light rail line to ‘Convention’,which departs regularly from Central.)
Come and join us to express in words, song and action our outrage that the final frontier is being colonised by the military.
While people starve and are homeless in the country, our taxes will be used to fund war-making in space.
US-NATO space tech is already playing a leading role in the wars in Ukraine and the genocidal zionist war in Palestine. The two babies killed alongside their doctor mother in Gaza last August are believed to have been targeted by Israel using Google’s AI Project Nimbus.
Right now we are witnessing an unprecedented use of satellite technology in targeted killings which will only increase.
We know that Pine Gap, known locally as the ‘space base’ has been used in US led conflicts since 1991. It has been targeting civilians in the wars against Iraq, Afghanistan, and facilitating drone attacks on villagers on Pakistani border with Afghanistan.
Currently, Pine Gap is being used to facilitate the massacre against Gaza and nearby countries on behalf of Israel.
Space is currently a war fighting mechanism.
We need to decouple space from the military
We advocate for the separation of military and defense interests from space activities. We aim to establish guidelines and agreements that promote the peaceful use of space for scientific, commercial, and humanitarian purposes.
Australia is too close to the US and its Empire
Prominent people in Australia including a former Prime Minister, academics and Australian members of civil society movements have been campaigning for an end to the US - Australian alliance.
Recent polls of Australians have found a paltry 37% approval rating for the US.
This alliance means that cities and towns in Australia will become nuclear targets in the event of a hot war with China.
It is the US that is leading us into using our resources for armaments and insisting that we increase military spending while the world’s and Australia’s needs are for more resources for climate change and better social services such as health, education and welfare.
While we welcome Australian ingenuity and expertise being devoted to a new frontier space, we recoil at the automatic involvement of the military in this new and exciting frontier.
“The first casualty of war is truth; the rest is mainly civilians.”
KEEP SPACE FOR PEACE!
Scrap AUKUS…….Close Pine Gap
Authorised by: World Beyond War, Anti-Bases, Sydney Anti-AUKUS Coalition and supported by World Citizens Association Australia.
For more info see:
https://space4peace.org/
Webinar: 30 April 2025, 12-1pm Sydney eastern time
Can Parliamentary Committees Deliver for Indigenous Peoples?
UNDRIP, the Voice and the Parliamentary Process
Don't miss this important conversation on UNDRIP & Indigenous Rights
between Pat Anderson AO & Prof Megan Davis AC
A reminder that you're invited to join us for an in-depth webinar this Wednesday 30 April, exploring how Australia can meaningfully implement the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP).
As the conversation continues on how to secure the rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, this event brings together experts in international law, Indigenous rights, and parliamentary process to assess the strengths and limitations of current and proposed approaches.
We’ll examine:
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How the Voice to Parliament aligned with the UNDRIP’s vision for structural participation
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The 2023 UNDRIP Bill, including an audit of laws and a national action plan
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A proposal to embed UNDRIP compliance within the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights
We’ll also take a deep dive into the core principles of the UNDRIP, including self-determination, ongoing political participation, and the right to Free, Prior and Informed Consent.
Book launches for Anti-Fascists: Jim McNeill and his mates in the Spanish Civil War have been announced!
Anti-Fascists: Jim McNeill and his mates in the Spanish Civil War is the story of Jim McNeill, his mates and comrades. They were Australia’s pioneers against fascism. The Australians who fought against Franco in the Spanish Civil War were men and women of conscience. They were prescient in their understanding of fascism’s threat and convinced that taking up arms against it was the right thing to do.
"This book is a deeply researched account of the history and motivation of a small band of courageous Australians who, without government approval or support, travelled to Spain in a vain attempt to defeat fascism. A great read for any history buff."
- John Faulkner, Former Labor Senate Leader.
"With a meticulous historical eye and elegant prose, Michael Samaras brings to life the courage and commitment of Jim McNeill and other Australians who fought fascism in Spain. This remarkable book represents the long overdue historical remembrance of an overlooked group of extraordinary Australian women and men."
Paul Daley, Author and Guardian writer.
Ryan's Hotel (Collins Thirroul) with Stephen Jones MP - Wednesday 30 April:
https://thirroul.collinsbooks.com.au/pages/4102-EVENTS
Gleebooks in conversation with John Faulkner - Friday 2 May:
https://gleebooks.com.au/event/michael-samaras-anti-fascists/#:~:text=A%20great%20read%20for%20any,who%20fought%20fascism%20in%20Spain.
Readings Carlton with Kos Samaras - Wednesday 7 May:
https://www.readings.com.au/events/anti-fascists-by-michael-samaras
An event organised by SEARCH members …
REMEMBERING DOROTHY
Newcastle Writers Festival
5 April 2025, 10:00 am
at
Watt Space Gallery
20 Auckland St Newcastle
Program
10:00 am: Welcome and introduction to the session
MC Marilla North, SEARCH member
10:05 am: Poems Become Songs
Su Morley “Island in the River / “Weevils in the Flour”.
Joe Flood “Cock of the Morning”
10:15 am: A Feminist Icon
Katy Carruthers performs Sally Banner from The Chapel Perilous
Directed by Pearl Nunn
10:30:am: Who Was Dorothy Hewett?
The child, the poet, the rebel & radical, the journalist, the lover, the mother,
the novelist, the playwright, the feminist icon, the mentor
Helen Musa chairs the panel and audience Q&A
with Joe Flood, Marilla North, Aarne Neeme and Pearl Nunn
11:15 am: Close & Book Signing
