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The Public Inquiry into the AUKUS Submarine Agreement held its Brisbane hearing on Tuesday, August 25, led by its Lead Commissioner, former Environment Minister Peter Garrett.

Assisting Peter Garrett was his fellow Commissioner, retired Admiral Chris Barrie, a former Chief of the Australian Defence Force.

The Public Inquiry into AUKUS have now held hearings in the capitals of all the mainland states. The Inquiry’s public consultation period ends in Australia’s capital, Canberra, with a final hearing that will run over two days. The Commissioners then retire to prepare their report.

At the end of the Inquiry’s Brisbane hearing, Bay FM’s Queensland correspondent, Dr John Jiggens, spoke with the Inquiry’s Lead Commissioner Peter Garrett about the massive cost to Australia of AUKUS. - Dr John Jiggens

AUKUS 2 by LeftPress

a beautiful poem by Mahmoud Darwish

https://workersbushtelegraph.com.au/2026/05/18/court-report/#comment-817920

I don't think too much about the luck I have to life without,

worrying if I will have enough to eat to be alive

While trying to survive with missiles flying, buildings falling down

I guess I live in luxury

Bombs raining down

More than 60,000 in the ground

How could this be happening?

While I just just live my life like there's no genocide

Watched an old man die waiting for rice

Now I decide what I would like to eat

Well I have moment I could do something to save a life

But I keep it in my pocket, why is it hard to give away

So many starving people need it more

Bombs raining down

More than 60,000 in the ground

How could this be happening?

While I just live my life like there's no genocide

Children gunned down

Many orphaned now

Their innocence ripped out

From the other side of the world

I watch their hell unfold

With guilt cause I could do more

Two proposals supported by Justice for Palestine JFP rally at Speakers Corner in Brisbane Magand-jin on 12 February 2026

The rally resolved to :

Collect signups to the JFP mailing list and send a cheat sheet on how to complete a submission to the Queensland Parliament opposing the proposed draconian laws (as soon as possible to enable submissions by 27 Feb 2026).

Encourage and coordinate unions, faith groups, community organizations, student unions, journalists, academics, and lawyers to prepare and submit written submissions to the Queensland Parliament opposing the proposed laws.

Public trial of Isaac Herzog at the Supreme Court of Queensland in Brisbane

The Home Affairs Minister can list organizations as prohibited hate groups via an administrative process. The aim is to:

Tie activists up in legal processes and costs

Deter participation in protests

Silence dissent and allow a dominant zionist anti-semitismnarrative to prevail.

The Australian government passed the 2026 Combating Anti-Semitism, Hate and Extremism, (Criminal and Migration) Laws with LNP support. The laws enable a politicized administrative process to declare “prohibited hate groups,” with no judicial review, and make it an offense to be an officer, director, member, recruiter, trainer, fundraiser, or supporter of such groups, carrying up to 10 years’ imprisonment (up to 15 in certain cases).

A 2025 UN Commission of Inquiry found Israel committed genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes in Gaza. Includes speech by Chris Sidoti one of the judges on the commission of inquiry.

However six Palestinian civil society groups were labeled terrorist, one unlawful. Concerns include targeting pro-Palestinian groups, visa holders, and possible use of ASIO recommendations; no sunset clauses or appeals; NSW/QLD/WA may ban “globalize the Intifada” and “from the river to the sea.”

Music

The Apartheid Song by Phil Monsour

Uncle Dale Ruska (Stradbroke Island/Yuggerra) framed Australia as a crime scene, tracing colonial violence from Cook’s 1770 observations of Aboriginal fires and the false British claim of terra nullius through military incursions led by Oxley. He recounted the murder of an elder on Minjerribah and Ulipi’s retaliation, the Battle of Big Creek (Anugoray), the Moreton Island massacre, atrocities at Point Lookout, and the “blood-stained sands” at Kanai.

Situating these events within 65,000 years of First Nations sovereignty, he connected historical violence to contemporary injustice, citing the 1991 Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody (with hundreds of recommendations unimplemented and at least 600 subsequent deaths), the failed 'Voice ' referendum, Queensland’s repeal of the Pathways to Treaty bill, and the Bondi massacre. He condemned mining and the removal of aboriginal and Palestinian flags, and called for an independent First Nations-led inquiry, justice reinvestment, and decolonization.

This recording was made by Community Radio 4ZZZ using a line out signal from Solidarity Resources Inc

Solidarity with struggles against imperialism in Venezuela, Cuba and Palestine. Speech given by Sue Monk from the Australia Cuba Friendship Society at a rally organised by the Australia Venezuela Solidarity Network on 16 January 2026.

Music

Pegale duro al fiero (Strike the Beast Hard) by Gaviota with Sue Monk

In this trial, magistrate Zachary Sarra entered no conviction against a Palestinian man who blocked the driveway of a weapons factory complicit in the genocide in Gaza. This interview provides the reasons given by the Magistrate. however, in a truly unhinged performance of 23 minutes, magistrate Sarra pointed the finger at the accused as if he were to blame for Bondi.

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Raffeef Ziadah - Chronologies

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An angel in darkness outside weapons factory, Ferra Engineering at Tingalpa in Brisbane. The angel is holding the shroud of a child, a symbol of the genocide in Gaza.