Month: January 2017

Celebrating twenty-five years of the Westender

March 2017 will mark twenty five years since the Westender was first published as an independent, community newspaper. Over two and a half decades, the paper has celebrated the unique character of West End, and reported on the key events and personalities that have made West End the place we know and love today. I plan to publish a special, commemorative book to celebrate the occasion. The commemorative book would feature highlights of twenty five years of publishing, interesting historical information, stories on key community stakeholders, past and present, and comment from key, local stakeholders. The book be tabloid...

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Women for Climate Justice Raise Their Voices

On Saturday January 21, 2017, the day after the inauguration of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, hundreds of thousands of women are expected to gather in Washington D.C. and hundreds of cities across the U.S. and the world.  They will march together as part of the historic Women’s March on Washington while standing up for their rights, and the safety and health of their families and communities. As part of the Washington D.C. March, a coalition of diverse women’s groups, climate justice leaders and individuals will unite and march as ‘Women for Climate Justice’, sending a clear message to the...

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Who do we seek to persuade? Climate change and right-wing populism – @JanB_QLD

“We need to stop doing these things that aren’t working. They’re not just not working; they’re creating a problem now.” The success of Pauline Hanson’s One Nation at the last Federal Election in Australia and the rise of Donald Trump in the US has exercised a lot of us to consider how we can start conversations with their voters. What works, condemnation or engagement? If engagement, then how and what? Winnifred Louis In the context of exploring these questions, I came across a short piece in the UQ News by social psychologist, Dr Winnifred Louis. Dr Louis seemed to be offering...

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Hard to fault Fawlty Towers Live

Eric Scott reviews the live adaption of the cult comedy Fawlty Towers, written for the stage by John Cleese and Connie Booth. Fawlty Towers – Live By John Cleese and Connie Booth Produced by Michael Coppel and Phil McIntyre with Louise Withers Directed by Caroline Jay Ranger Playhouse Theatre Queensland Performing Arts Centre South Bank Brisbane Season: 28 December 2016 to 22 January 2017. Duration two hours including interval. Bookings: www.qpac.com.au or 136 246.  Fawlty Towers is cult comedy. It began life as a two season BBC TV production back in the 1970s. There were just 12 shows, but...

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