Andy did a number of interviews about politics in sport.

Andy interviewed Boe Spearim about the role sport plays in aboriginal identity and community, as well as his plans to protest the 2018 commonwealth games.

Andy speaks to Kate about Outer Sanctum, a podcast that talks about AFL footy from a women’s perspective.

Interview with author Jackie French about Springbok apartheid rugby union tour. Politics and sport Queensland style:

Springbok Tour / State of Emergency
Joh Bjelke-Petersen’s hard-line conservatism attracted national attention in July 1971 when he declared a “state of emergency” in Queensland to control demonstrations against a South African Springbok rugby union tour.

Even the conservative press was troubled. The Sunday Sun declared a police charge on demonstrators outside the Tower Mill where the Rugby Union tourists were staying was ‘a shocking plunder’. The article read:

There were no shoulder number tab on the uniformed policeman. For a start, they let their Minister and Commissioner down very badly. And they certainly played right into the hands of all those who have been crying out that the Government’s State of Emergency was a dangerous thing.

Despite all the assurances by (police minister) Mr. Hodges and (police commissioner) Mr. Whitrod . . . despite all their talks directly to officers and men … despite all the actual training the police were given, the hard fact is that once they were turned loose they appeared to Lose control – and they lost also the respect of a lot of people.

Well lets listen to an eye witness account by one of the anti-apartheid demonstrators, Jackie French, describing how she and her friend, Trish, helped to save future Queensland Premier, Peter Beattie, from serious injury after a young policeman named Linsay Edward Daniels attacked Beattie inside Trades Hall and had lost control of himself.

This incident occurred at about 6:15pm on Thursday 22 July 1971 shortly after police had charged on mass and attacked a peaceful demonstration against apartheid outside the nearby Tower Mill motel.

Thanks to Radical Times Historical Archive … radicaltimes.info/

Playlist
Paradigm shift on demand … http://ondemand.4zzzfm.org.au/paradigm-shift/2016-03-18

Sportchestra! – Karl Marx never made the squad
Archie Roach – The colour of your jumper
This Bike Is A Pipe Bomb – Jack Johnson
Sportchestra! – It’s a man’s game
Sportchestra! – The bowler’s Botha, the batsman’s Gooch
Construção Coletiva – Rap da rua (nao vai ter copa)

Karen Fusi and Chantay Link from Sovereign Women United spoke with Andy about a forum this week (11-13 Aug) that they are organising.

The theme is how to reduce the number of aboriginal children being taken into care.

Listen on demand here

Forum
Begins – 10 am Thursday, Friday, Saturday.
Croquet Club in Musgrave Park
91 Cordelia St, South Brisbane QLD 4101
Includes healing, yarning around the fire, discussions with the department..
Saturday is letting our hair down day with music dance and yarning around the fire and eating good food.

All are welcome

More about Sovereign Women United

Paradigm Shift 4zzz fm 102.1 Friday 22 July at noon.

This is a show about land developers and education, about top down versus grassroots, about lore versus law.

At first it is difficult to see any connection between Maha Sinnathamby, a high wealth individual, who built a town an hour west of Brisbane and aboriginal education.

Such a connection exists at Springfield.

Hymba Yumba stands for Listening and Learning Place.

Key interview is with Lucy Davis, a sister of sacked principal John Davis. Hymba Yumba is a unique school.

The show is divided into several parts:

1. Intro which discusses the concept behind Springfield with education as its focus.
2. Speech by Maha Sinnathamby (developer) at a fundraising ceremony for the school, making a pitch to those he calls the ‘influential people’ – judges, ministers, directors-general,  aboriginal elders and educators.
3. Uncle Albert Holt gives a brief description of his hopes for the school.
4. Lucy Davis describes how her brother was sacked and a protest in support of John Davis by the community.
5. Ian reads out Chris Sarra (Stronger Smarter Institute) messages of support for John Davis and his holistic approach to education, culture way.
6. Lucy Davis describes how the board sent a txt message to a community representative canceling an agreed  meeting between the community and the board  ‘due to the unavailability of Board members’ stating  ‘some members are overseas for work and won’t be returning until Sunday/Monday or extremely sick’ and makes the point that they were able to get a quorum to sack John Davis and to advertise his job.
7. Finally there is discussion about the contradiction between the top down approach of capitalism compared with the grassroots striving to fulfill needs in the community.

On Demand at http://ondemand.4zzzfm.org.au/paradigm-shift

Playlist
Christian Bumbarra Thompson – Refuge
Kev Carmody – Black Jimmy
Emily Wurramara – Black smoke

Paradigm Shift fm 102.1 Friday at noon 15 July 2016
Listen to show here http://ondemand.4zzzfm.org.au/paradigm-shift/2016-07-15

Robert Wharton, Andy and Ian pay tribute to songman Angus Rabbit who passed away this week. Robert sings ‘Share the Stars’ as a tribute to Uncle Angus and talks about the influence in his life of Uncle Angus.

Andy interviews Luke Byrne about the significance of folk in the environment and social justice issues. Andy catches up with Luke at the Students of Sustainability. Songs mentioned are Padlock and Chain which is about Metropolitan Mine at Woolongong and turned into being about opposition to mine at Maules Creek and then about uranium.  Bella Ciao is another that originates from traditional peasant women workers in the 19th century and became an  anti-fascist song for the Italian Partisans in World War II.

Andy interviews Marcus Atkinson who with Koara Tribal Leader, Richard Evans is organising a big walk in August in Western Australia against the Uranium mining site at Wiluna in the WA Goldfields on Martu country.

Playlist
Milva – Bella ciao
Robert Wharton – Share the stars
Mop and the Dropouts – Brisbane blacks
The Lurkers – Who’s got a padlock and chain?
Milva – Bella ciao
Robert Wharton – Dreaming
Mop and the Dropouts – Dancing aborigine

At Invasion Day in 2012 when most of the leaders had gone to Canberra this non-indigenous woman spoke briefly at Parliament House and soon after at Jagera Hall Angus sang many of his famous songs.

Paradigm Shift (4zzz fm 102.1 friday  9 July 2016 at noon) with Roba Rayan (Palestinian Arts & Culture, PACSI), Ali Kadri (Spokesperson for Islamic Council of Queensland), Andy and Ian.

Response to hate speech by Pauline Hanson/s One Nation.

1. On Lateline last night (7 July 2016) former Prime Minster John Howard admitted he was heavily involved in convincing Tony Blair to go to war in Iraq.

Howard helped orchestrate our involvement in that war with the Americans and British.

Who are the real terrorists?

2. Daesh is now rampant in Iraq and Syria.

We know through the centuries that the separation of church and state is a myth.
Daesh is referred to as ‘Islamic State’ – is Islam an ideology?

3. After Australian troops marched into Damascus at the end of Turkish occupation of Syria, King Faisal was proclaimed King of the Arab Kingdom of Syria … he preached pan-arabism or unity between Sunnis and Shia but was soon deposed by the French.

How should modern Islam respond to such interference?

4. One Nation may hold the balance of power in the senate in the new parliament. Pauline Hanson is presently engaged in horse-trading with the conservatives. She has called for a royal commission into Islam where Imams are likely to be called before an inquiry, will you, Ali Kadri, as spokesperson for the Islamic Council of Queensland (ICQ), refuse to appear before a royal commission into Islam should it occur?

5. What do you have to say to those who wish to place terrorism at the door of Islam?
6. Roba, every year PACSI and Justice for Palestine remember al Nakba in Brisbane, the catastrophe where Palestinians were driven off their land. How has that affected you personally as a Palestinian women?

Listen to response at http://ondemand.4zzzfm.org.au/paradigm-shift/2016-03-18

PShift: Can you please introduce yourself?

Pauline Hanson: My name is Pauline Hanson and I will be representing Queenslanders in the next parliament.

PShift: One Nation polled 150,000 out of 1.7 million votes cast in the Senate in Queensland, how does that give you a mandate to do anything?

Hanson: It is a wake up call to the major parties that people do not trust them and do not like their policies.

PShift: As President of the Holland Park Mosque [correction: Ali Kadri is spokesperson for the Islamic Council of Qld,] Ali Kadri, has invited you to sit down with him at the Eid Down Under festival tomorrow to talk about your comments on Islam. Will you be going?

Hanson: I am happy to talk with anyone about our call for a Royal Commission into Islam and to put a stop to Islamics coming to Australia, they do not share our values.

PShift: What values are those?

Hanson: I am fed up with being told, ‘This is our land’ by Aboriginals. Well, where the hell do I go? I was born here, and so were my parents and children. I will work beside anyone and they will be my equal but I draw the line when told I must pay and continue paying for something that happened over 200 years ago. Like most Australians, I worked for my land; no-one gave it to me.

PShift: You own land at Mt Walker, about 35 minutes drive from Ipswich west of Brisbane where larger properties sell for up to $3 or 4 million dollars and smaller acreage for a half a million, not many people can afford that. You are a wealthy land holder, how would you know about those who are doing it tough, especially aborigjnal people who were thrown off their land and grew up on Purga mission?

Pauline Hanson: I didn’t throw anyone off their land nor did my parents. We worked hard for what we got. Aboriginal people get free education and hand outs all the time, it’s a rort.  If they worked as hard as us they could have what I got.

PShift: But the old people were transported from their land under guard and their grandchildren taken off them and placed under the care of Christian missionaries at Debbing creek only a few miles from where you live. They were robbed of their language and culture and took a foreign way of life. Are you saying you support that kind of Christian belief?

Hanson:  People who have an issue with what happened a long time ago should simply get over it. There are sections of society that would whinge about anything given the chance and people need to stop being so precious.

PShift: What about refugees driven from their homeland as a result of wars that the United States started and Australia followed, namely Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria?

Hanson:  It was Islamics who started those wars. I and most Australians want our immigration policy radically reviewed and that of multiculturalism abolished.

PShift:  The Jagera, Toorbul or Yugambeh people did not invite you onto their land in the Scenic Rim shire, there was never any treaty signed with the original owners and the settlers.

Hanson: Our forefathers claimed the land and worked hard making something out of it.

PShift: In your local seat of Wright, which is One Nation’s heartland, your candidate obtained 15, 000 votes, compare that with Dr Anne Azza Aly in the seat of Cowan, who scored 30,000 votes for the Labor party and may win that seat.  My point is Australia is a multicultural society when people will vote for a Muslim candidate in such numbers, hasn’t your boat sailed?

Hanson: Those votes were for Labor, my policies are different to them. We don’t want Islamic candidates running for election, they interfere with our way of life and bring the terrorists out here.

PShift: But Dr Aly is an expert in fighting terrorism

Hanson: Dr Aly supports the radical Imams.

PShift: All she did was suggest that a particular radical Imam could be a candidate for her de-radicalisation program, which is funded by the federal attorney-general’s department.

Hanson: That’s my point, it is a waste of taxpayers money.

PShift: But Dr Aly is pretty much like you, she struggled financially to raise two sons on her own.

Hanson: Radical Imams prey on sons like hers to hate us.

PShift: But you are exploiting people’s ignorance to make them fear Muslims.

Hanson: They are a threat, they wear burkas that hide their identity.

PShift: Dr Aly doesn’t wear a scarf and gets criticised by conservative muslims for it.

Hanson:  Sometimes I feel sorry for these women who have been forced to wear it. I reckon many Muslim women would love to break out of the burqa.

I can’t walk into a bank or government building with my helmet on without being stopped and told to show my face, which is fair enough. The same should apply to women wearing the burqa.

PShift: JACQUI Lambie has been crusading against the burqa, she told an Imam that the burka concealed the “beautiful faces” of Muslim women.

Pauline Hanson: I agree with Jacqui on that.

PShift: But Muslim women are copping vitriol and sexist comments left right and centre… and your islamaphobia is not helping it.

Hanson: They can do what they like in their own home but not wear the hijab on the streets. And we need to have cameras placed in the mosques to see what the Imams are up to.

PShift: If you put cameras in the Mosques, shouldn’t you be putting cameras in the churches to see what priests are getting up to with young children?

Hanson: They had a royal commission into that which is why I am calling for an inquiry into Imams.

PShift: Is there anything else you would like to add on this before we get onto climate change?

Hanson: Of course I will be called racist but if I can invite whom I want into my home, then I should have the right to have a say in who comes into my country.

PShift: The Greens support renewable energy because burning fossil fuels causes climate change.

Hanson: I outpolled the Greens in the Senate 150,000 to 118,000.

PShift: But that was on the back of your anti-islam stance.

Hanson: The Greens are watermelons, green on the outside but red on the inside.  Climate change happens, it was not caused by man. I want a national inquiry into it.

PShift: If you do that the CSIRO will come out and say that there is a link between human activity on the planet and climate change.

Hanson: The CSIRO have engaged in a “fraud” against the Australian people over climate science. Nature alone determines levels of CO2 in air.

PShift: But only coalminers like Malcolm Roberts and shock jocks like Alan Jones support that kind of thinking.

Hanson: I grew up in a coal mining town and it was good enough for me and my parents.

PShift: But you live on property far away from Geenhouse gas emissions and toxic waste from the mines and cities that are damaging the Great Barrier Reef. Larissa Waters won her Senate seat on the back of these concerns.

Hanson: Larissa Waters and the Greens are not doing it tough like farmers out here with  decline in local communities and towns like Boonah and Rosewood.  People are struggling and they want to make essentials like petrol and food more expensive.

PShift:  But the price of food and oil is decreasing, that’s capitalism.

Hanson: No, it’s socialism that’s caused problems for the bush … and those Greens in the cities just want to tax small business and make life hard for us.  We need reliable and efficient energy production not more taxes on carbon.

PShift: But you are opposed to fracking …

Hanson:  Of course, because fracking damages the local water supply … and wind industry is lowering the price of peoples homes and is causing people to get sick because of the wind turbines. People should be compensated

PShift: Well that’s democracy for you people, I think we should leave it there.

[Please Note: There have been calls for Simon Hunt to bring Pauline Pantsdown out of retirement.

What do you think?

Pauline Hanson herself was invited to come on the Paradigm Shift, but was unavailable. Ms Hanson was played by an actor and her words are based on quotes from her 1996 speech to the Federal Parliament as the meber for Oxley, her party (One Nation)’s platform and her recent comments in winning a Qld senate seat to the 47th Australian parliament.]

Playlist
Rafeef Ziadah – Passport
DAM – Min Irhabi (Who’s the terrorist?)
Phil Monsour – I left my heart in Palestine

Paradigm Shift broadcast at noon on 1 July 2016 on the day prior to the election. [4zzz fm 102. fridays at noon].

Introduction
We often hear the slogan “voting changes nothing, only a politician gets in.” In the Australian context, federal elections are increasingly presidential affairs. In 2016, it is Turnbull vs Shorten but is there any real difference? Will Turnbull, the rich merchant banker, be any worse than Shorten, the union official who negotiates lower wages for his members (Remember CleanEvent)?

Are Labour policies any better or worse than that of the coalition? In a few cases the Liberal policies are better. Why the Labour Party would not wish to deny negative gearing to investors speculating in property during a housing crisis is beyond me. The Liberals have declared they wish to do this – albeit denying only very high income earners this rort on the tax system. The Labor Party cried fowl, ‘the proposed restriction on negative gearing is retrospective legislation’ they claimed. Bah humbug!

Did federal elections ever make a difference? Well I suppose yes. In 1972 Labor’s Gough Whitlam defeated Liberal’s Billy McMahon. Before cabinet was even selected, Whitlam and his deputy, Lance Barnard, declared an end of conscription and an end to Australia’s participation in the Vietnam war. Whitlam made universities free. He setup central wage fixing and announced equal pay for women. All this in the first 2 weeks of government!

Today these may seem to be big reforms especially in a conservative electorate. But were they really?

Opposition to the Vietnam War had built into a mass movement by the 1970’s. Hundred’s of thousands of people were on the streets and as Whitlam declared in his election speech “It’s time?” he was following popular sentiment to end the war.

The same could not be said of Turnbull. As we will here later in the show Turnbull and his foreign minister, Bishop, are conducting illegal and secret operations in the Middle East based on lies and misinformation. Both Labor and Liberals are increasing the cost of higher education. back in the 1970s the Liberals had already made universities more accessible by giving scholarships to ordinary people. Thus dramatically increasing over-crowding.

By 1971, the University of Queensland at St Lucia was the size of a large town with 20,000 students and 10,000 staff. This overcrowding helped students to question their courses and their lecturers.

Whitlam’s modest reforms did create change, especially for women. It gave women greater access to the workforce, a better standard of living, his government introduced no-fault divorce. His reforms enabled women to establish financial independence from their partners.

Does voting change anything?
Last week the people of England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland voted to leave the European Union. This came as a surprise to some and sent a financial shock through stock exchanges around the world. The British Pound fell to a 30 year low and people worried about their jobs. Political leaders fell on their swords and the progressive leader of the Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn came under sustained attack. He will probably hold on. So, on the surface, some things do change. To deny this is to misunderstand the close link between capitalism and democracy. It is after all in the parliaments of democratic countries where regulation of capitalism take place – to some extent, at least.

So, who would who to vote for? Personally I will be voting for the independents and minor parties, being careful not to vote for far-right crazies. I suggest you look closely at the candidates policies. Not surprisingly, for me at least, when I do that, both Liberal and Labor come last.

Hung parliament
This is a close election and it is likely that it will produce a hung parliament. There will be some surprises in it. Sadly I think Pauline Hanson will win in the Senate in Queensland, beating Andrew Bartlett from the Greens and Glen Lazarus, the independent. Alas the ‘brick-with-eyes’ will not rise from the dead.

Hanson has the advantage of celebrity.

Nick Xenophon’s team in south Australia is likely to win several Xenophon is a true liberal I agree with him that poker machines should be banned. He supports independence and a better deal for East Timor. And American bases out of Australia. He is wrong the need for an Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC) – that is an attack on workers right to organise.

In my electorate of Griffith I will be putting Labor’s Terry Butler and Liberal Fiona Ward last. In the absence of a socialist candidate I’ll be voting for John jiggens for drug law reform and for the Greens. However I do not hold out much hope that either will win or get their policies up.

The greens Andrew Bartlett will get my vote in the Senate because he was always turned up for refugees, for Palestinian people and for social justice and human rights. Lookout for the renewable energy party and the arts party in your electorates.

One area of policy we heard little about during the election campaign was foreign policy. I’ll play an interview with James O’Neill an international law expert to discuss what is happening on that score. In the meantime let’s go to an election song by Paul Spence called “Make Some Music.”

Ian Curr
1 July 2016

Friday 3/6/16 12pm-2:05pm

[Paradigm Shift 27 May 2016 12-1pm 102.1fm]

Andy speaks with Benny Wenda, globe-trotting West Papuan independence activist. They talk about Papuan resistance and  Benny plays some freedom songs live in the studio!  They are joined by Joanne from Rise Up for West Papua.

Benny talks about Break the Silence tour and building links with Rise Up for West Papua.

The Unified movement represents a new hope for West Papuans to continue building momentum for their struggle.

Benny explains the role of music in changing the political situation in West Park. Benny said music is a very big part of the culture and it plays an important role in educating and bringing people into the movement for change.

The recently elected spokesperson for  of Free West Papua talks about his own personal story and the grief that he has suffered in the struggle of his people against the brutal Indonesian military.

Benny escaped into exile from West Papua Feb 2003 and became a asylum seeker in Great Britain. On the show he played songs took to him on the ukulele by his wife.

Andy asked Benny about the prospects for a new state of West Papua especially given the difficulties faced by both PNG and East Timor.

Benny explained that the struggle is for freedom and with freedom the murders and the brutality by the Indonesian military will cease.

Notes by Ian Curr.

Reference
Free West Papua Manifesto

Rize for West Paua

Andy (PShift) and Corey (Earth Show, 3CR) talk with Jono Sri (Greens councillor on Brisbane City Council) talk about affordable housing in Brisbane and elsewhere. Highlight the need for direct action at places like the ABSOE site in West End which developers wish to turn into West Village, a high rise, high density shopping haven.

Jono talked up the need for poorer people to have access to housing and the risks to ordinary people involved in having the housing bubble burst. He said that the Greens are opposed to negative gearing (interesting given revelations this week that the leader of the Greens, Richard Di Natale, is heavily into negative gearing).

http://www.4zzzfm.org.au/program/paradigm-shift

Featured Die Yuppi Die from the Painters & Dockers

Playlist
Curse Ov Dialect – Greed
The Dilemmas – Where were you?
Painters And Dockers – Die yuppie die
Kate Tempest – Europe is lost