New Workplace/Industrial Relations Laws

These new laws will only widen the gap between rich and poor and sabotage the (relatively) decent anti-discrimination protection we have in Australia....grrr....this is not a good year for workers in my homeland. You can check out the results of my information mining at here at my underverse site.

Audrey Autonomy

WORLD'S 11TH RICHEST PERSON KILLED! (Hooray!)

BILLIONAIRE Wal-Mart heir John Walton died when the homemade plane he was flying crashed in a national park in Wyoming, US authorities said today.

The plane crashed shortly after taking off from Jackson Hole Airport in Grand Teton National Park, the National Park Service said.

The cause of the accident was not immediately known.

Walton, the son of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton, was the world's 11th richest person with a net worth exceeding $US18 billion ($23.4bn) , according to Forbes magazine.

The park service said: "Walton, the pilot and sole occupant of the aircraft, died on impact and was later pronounced dead at the scene by Teton County Coroner, Bob Campbell."

A spokeswoman said Walton, 58, was an experienced pilot who was flying a homemade aircraft with an aluminum frame and wings wrapped in fabric similar to heavy-duty sail cloth.

"This was an experimental, very lightweight aircraft," said Joan Anzelmo.

The plane weighed between 400 and 500 pounds (180 to 225kg), she said.

Weather conditions were good at the time of the crash.

Walton lived in Jackson, Wyoming.

This article was published by the Australian here and happily reblogged by Audrey.

Students Of Sustainability!

This message was posted on the Queeruption sydney mailing list and re-blogged by Audrey Autonomy.


hey lovely Queers!

This year's Students of Sustainability conference finally has a venue confirmed and registration is now open!!! This year, the fourteenth annual SoS will be held at Monash (Clayton) University in Melbourne,
from the 10th - 15th July.

Registration is still open.
Please register if you haven't done so already at www.sos2005.org!
Please note, early bird registration has ended.

Students of Sustainability (SoS) is the largest student-run environment based conference in Australia. Each year SoS offers an amazing opportunity for students, activists, academics, environment and Indigenous groups, and members of the wider community from around Australia to come together to share and gain knowledge, skills and information on environmental and social justice issues. Featuring a vast array of inspiring speakers, practical workshops, field trips and empowering activities, SoS is the most important event of the year for environment activists and people wishing to learn more about how to create positive social change in their communities.

there is heaps of space in the timetable for workshops to be put on, would be great if there were queer workshops. if anyone has any ideas, want to put on a workshop or want more info either go to the website or contact me.

also, if anyone has any bikes that they dont want anymore- old/broken or parts. please let me know, i would love to have them, and can come and pick them up. I am putting together a fleet to be used durung SOS as communal transport.

thanks,
briana
ph: 0401452470
b_rocheta@hotmail.com

www.sos2005.org

"Everything you wanted to know about Kinky Sex"

SLPA is hosting an event on Thursday 23 June as part of the
PRIDE Week program
Everything you wanted to know about Kinky Sex
Thursday 23 June @ Pride Centre 7pm for 7.15 start.

featuring MC Nurse Nancy and a panel of sexperts from SLPA
snacks provided
Come along with those burning questions and meet our panel of
experts including current and past presidents of SLPA.
Got something you have never been able to ask even your best
friends? we will try to pop your cherry of sexual knowledge.

A free event Open to all 16 years +
Email slpa.education@gmail.com to rsvp or just come along.

Sydney PRIDE Centre
Erskineville Town Hall
104 Erskineville, Road ERSKINEVILLE, NSW. 2043
http://www.sydneyleatherpride.org/education.htm

Doctor guilty of taking organs

LONDON: A Dutch doctor at the centre of a British hospital scandal has been found guilty of serious professional misconduct for removing organs from the bodies of 850 dead children without parental consent.

Read this article here

political life in Turkmenistan sucks dictatorshit

When newly appointed Secretary of State Condoleza Rice listed her outposts of tyranny at her Senate confirmation hearing on January 18, 2005, she listed the regimes of Cuba, Belarus, North Korea, Iran, Burma, and Zimbabwe. Suspiciously absent from the sound byte was tyranny that can easily rival any of the above states especially in terms of creating a cult of personality. Since becoming independent in 1991, Turkmenis-tan, a country of about five million, has been ruled over by Saparmurat Niyazov who, before becoming president-for-life and father of all Turkmen, was the Turkmen Communist Party chief (who therefore had also initially opposed his country’s independence). He has proceeded to organize the entire state apparatus around his rule, including naming the month of January after himself. In a show of familial affection April went to his mother’s name, May to his father’s, while September was reserved for Rukhnama, Niyazov’s alleged divinely inspired literary masterpiece.

Read this article here

Circulation mystery: how The Telegraph turns into papier mache

A reader has some more fishy newspaper circulation information:My wife who works at a primary school mentioned to me last night that the topic of conversation in the staffroom yesterday was regarding the pile of 15 Daily Telegraphs that have been appearing for some time. None of the teachers ordered them, and the administrative staff no nothing of the ordering or invoicing. 15 copies for a school with nine staff and two administration assistant. Advertisers will be pleased to know that the kids get full use of the newpapers – some of the best papier maché I've seen comes from that school.

this story from the Crikey Daily, reblogged by Audrey Autonomy

this is what happens when i'm bored with fascism and all its usurious emotions...

On my street my neighbours are the religious kind
Leavin pray books on my doorstop all the time
The streetlights flicker
Our picket fences illuminated
By unearthly glowing statues and shrines
In my street there are multi-cultures
None include ‘Kill A Queer For Christ’ stickers
And there seems to be a sense of security
In that we can all agree
That be it gods wills or spiraling free will
The best way to be
The best thing to teach
Is to love all your brothers and sisters
Trust in yourself
And set yourself free
We hold hands and kiss rosy pagan cheeks for equinox
We give each other flowers and drink bottles of honey mead
Theres a tribe of my nunga mates all living next door to me
I share a few beers and pipes with the battered old ones and the troubled youth
And don’t have to pay mortgage or rent
The community put together a petition in support of their cause
An attempt at recognition of multi-generational dispossession and cultural oppression
The community made use of the land without buying, selling or taking by force
Then its down to number 6 for absinthe and sex orgies with satanists
Who build bonfires every night and invite their magickal sadomasochistic friends
The hindu’s will always share their rice with me under the wise eyes of Ganesha
Mormons sometimes bake me bread send me postcards from holiday utah
The catholic’s red wine goes straight to my head while we sigh at
The sad fact of a corrupt, irrelevant and presumptuous church apparatus
I smoke hashish sometimes with my muslim friends
In the shade of what must seem like an eternally setting sun
We encourage each other to reach into our travel savings
In order to punctuate our journey with plenty of green days and laughing
Sometimes I have afternoon teas with a quiet family of healthy zen Buddhists
And though after a while my back hurts from sitting on a mat
I am easily kept complacent with good humour, wisdom and tasty snacks
The sounds of pianos and bongos and clap sticks and strings
We all have anthems and hymns and chants poems that we sing
And no matter how we disagree
On the issue of ontology
Of the reality of being and believing
No matter how much we struggle to comprehend
Each others viewpoints on censorship, death and aliens
It seems that in the end
We can always bow our heads and shake hands
My neighbours will live for safety in numbers and I for my naughty punk friends.

this is what happens when i smoke perhaps too much weed and drink perhaps too much strawberry schnapps and cheap port...

...I WONT LET YOU BEAT ME UP UNLESS I LIKE YOU...

Have you seen my latest coolest party scene?
We fall in love every week drunk and silly bored and obscene.
It’s really good and great it’ll never go stale or sour.
You really must meet my new friends! You’ll stay for hours!

...TRY TO NEVER GET INVOLVED IN A GIRL AND BOY FIGHT...

Your makeshift borders are irrelevant and insulting to the interests of my organization (constantly created and administrated by a necessary connected collective of one) and those of my associate entities. Customer loyalty is a gift or a habit. I will not sell that which I do not wish to buy. You will decide your own level of involvement and I will attempt to convince my selves to occasionally reconcile my visions with your expressed requests and desires. In light of perpetual retrospection, I hereby claim the right to be in many places at once.

...THAT’S THE WAY I LIKE IT. WE DRINK FROM EACH OTHER...

“Fuck your scene! Please initiate the dissipation and eventual near collapse of your borders. Stop arming each other with guilt and responsibilities. Stop giving orders. Can’t you see I’m so sick and tired of joining teams and drawing swords when I want to be busy laughing and talking and talking eventually finding the words. Will we ever stop grabbing for the toxic social lubricants (always packaged in, at least some, plastic) and mind numbing with the flavours of certain oppressive cultures and institutions.

...IF YOU WANT IT GET IT. COME ON AND BREAK MY HEART...

I’ll never be holier than thou,
Of that I’m quite sure.
I was never very competitive
Performed at school, TAFE, university:
“A gifted student whose performance is sometimes excellent…But mostly POOR!”
Despite my fears, I think, I’ve always tried to love everyone.
I’ve certainly been born or taught to try, even when my opponents (if you love all your enemies, you’ll soon cease to have any) have beaten my body with sharp sticks in their trembling paws.

...WE’LL START FROM TONIGHT AT WRITE A MODERN FAIRYTALE...

Audrey Autonomy (10/6/2005)

Redfern Reconciliation Bridge Walk

The Block and inner city aborginal rights have never been more under
threat (well, not since Captain Cook and co handed out the smallpox
blankets). Supporters of indigenous people are mobilising for a BIG DEMO
starting at the TNT towers this Thursday evening, 6pm for 6:30. They want
THOUSANDS of people walking across the bridge (Redfern railway bridge,
that is), so let's MOBILISE / RENT A CROWD! Text of attached flyer
follows:

Redfern Reconciliation Bridge Walk
Candle Light Vigil


THURSDAY 9TH JUNE 6.30-7pm
Meet at 6.00pm
in front of Redfern Waterloo Authority office,
Regent St & Lawson Sq (old TNT building)

Support Aboriginal housing on The Block

This land was given to the Aboriginal people for housing
by the Whitlam Labor government
It’s time that the housing was built

Until recently the Carr Labor government supported this vision
The state government’s Redfern Waterloo Authority
no longer supports Aboriginal housing on The Block

Take the next step for reconciliation in Redfern


Organised by Redfern Residents for Reconciliation
Supported by
Redfern Anglican Church
Crossroads Christian Fellowship
Koorie Lighthouse Ministries
South Sydney Uniting Church
REDWatch
Darlington ALP Branch
Redfern ALP Branch

Enquiries • Lyn Turnbull 9699 3105
• Trevor Davies 0400008338

patient:all consuming barely concious exhaustion

hmm...havent been writing in this blog really at all lately. If anyone out there is reading this then check out my contribution to underverse. I've got some content aswell as a diary and some other crap happening. hmm...well, there's a nice article at indymedia about state oppression in mexico here to think about over breakfast:

On 19th may, the Bilbao Viscaya Bank (Mexico) notified the “Associação Enlace Civil AC” that their bank accounts would be cancelled on June 19th. The Enlace Civil's activities in support of the Zapatista communities are legal and transparent, and have been properly documented and registered with the Government Departments, which has never given them permission to receive donations without having to pay taxes. This legal status means the Enlace Civil is subjected to rigorous and permanent financial surveillance by the Mexican authorities.
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