Melbourne

End Mandatory Detention: Protest at Maribyrnong Detention Centre

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 20/05/2011 - 11:00pm
Date and Time: 
Sun, 29/05/2011 -
2:00pm to 5:00pm
Location: 
Maribyrnong Detention Centre
Contact Name: 
Naomi
Contact Phone: 
0419 355 511
Contact Email: 
naomi.farmer@gmail.com
Website: 
http://www.rac-vic.org/

Australia's barbaric system of mandatory detention includes detention centres offshore, in deserts, but in the suburbs of major cities as well. One of those centres is in Maribyrnong in Melbourne's West, where high security fencing surround people who are locked up for doing nothing more than seeking asylum.

Geography: 
Melbourne

IWDA's Melbourne Fundraiser Screening of ‘Oranges and Sunshine’!

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 18/05/2011 - 7:10pm
Date and Time: 
Tue, 14/06/2011 -
6:00pm to 9:30pm
Location: 
Kino Cinema (45 Collins Street, Melbourne)

We are very excited to invite you to the Melbourne Fundraiser screening of Oranges and Sunshine – the extraordinary true story of Margaret Humphreys, a social worker from Nottingham, who uncovered one of the most significant social scandals of recent times: the deportation of thousands of children from the United Kingdom to Australia.

Almost single-handedly, against overwhelming odds and with little regard for her own well-being, Margaret reunited thousands of families, brought authorities to account and drew worldwide attention to an extraordinary miscarriage of justice.

Geography: 
Melbourne

New Internationalist - Big Red Book Fair

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 18/05/2011 - 6:59pm
Date and Time: 
Sat, 25/06/2011 - 11:00am to Sun, 26/06/2011 - 4:00pm
Location: 
Melbourne, The New International Bookshop. Trades Hall 54 Victoria Street, Carlton South

Every genre under the sun is represented at the Big Red Book Fair, but we're especially well endowed with history and politics, classics, literary fiction, crime fiction and anything Australian. There's also kids books, art, gardening, cooking, lifestyle, spirituality, philosophy and much, much more! Don't miss the grand opening at 11am Saturtday morning - it's the literary equivelant of the post-Christmas sales. And, if you're after a real bargain, remember happy hour begins 3pm Sunday - and that's when we're practically begging you to take the books off our hands...

Geography: 
Melbourne

The Bogan Delusion with David Nicholls

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 18/05/2011 - 6:57pm
Date and Time: 
Wed, 15/06/2011 -
6:30pm to 8:00pm
Location: 
Melbourne, The New International Bookshop. Trades Hall 54 Victoria Street, Carlton South

Nothing defies cultured Australia's sense of itself more than the bogan – that boorish, racist, drunken, sexist, bethonged, Barnesy-loving embarrassment out there in the back blocks. Part travelogue, part social critique, The Bogan Delusion explores the cultural and social landscape of Australia in 2011. David Nichols reveals, with searing analysis and sharp wit, that the bogan so widely feared is nothing more than a bogey: a convenient excuse for many to never venture beyond the cafe-lined cocoon of the inner city. What is believing in the bogan doing to Australia?

Geography: 
Melbourne

The Secret Histories of Queer Melbourne

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 18/05/2011 - 6:55pm
Date and Time: 
Wed, 08/06/2011 -
6:30pm to 8:30pm
Location: 
Melbourne, The New International Bookshop. Trades Hall 54 Victoria Street, Carlton South

The long awaited book The Secret Histories of Queer Melbourne grew out of the Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives' famous history walks. It features a dozen authors, 100 illustrations and 51 episodes from Melbourne's very queer history, including the lady squatters, homo bushrangers, the Tasty Raid, ASIO, kiss-ins, Myer windows, the floral clock, radicalesbians … and much, much more. This event will feature co-editor Graham Willett and other contributors discussing the book and swapping stories from its creation.

UNDERGROUND TALK PROGRAM

Geography: 
Melbourne

Leslie Cannold talks feminism, religion and The Book of Rachael

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 18/05/2011 - 6:52pm
Date and Time: 
Wed, 01/06/2011 -
6:30pm to 8:30pm
Location: 
Melbourne, The New International Bookshop. Trades Hall 54 Victoria Street, Carlton South

Two thousand years ago, while a young Jewish preacher from Nazareth was gathering followers among the people of Galilee, his sister swept floors and dreamed of learning to read. In Leslie Cannold's story, it is the women of Nazareth who take centre stage. Join Leslie and Chalk editor Sharne Vate as they discuss The Book of Rachael. "The church has spent millennia writing women out of history… Cannold returns them to their rightful place at the centre of one of our most powerful stories." (Sophie Cunningham)

Geography: 
Melbourne

Feeling the Heat: discover the world of climate change with The Age journalist Jo Chandler

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 18/05/2011 - 6:50pm
Date and Time: 
Wed, 25/05/2011 -
6:30pm to 8:00pm
Location: 
Melbourne, The New International Bookshop. Trades Hall 54 Victoria Street, Carlton South

In Feeling the Heat, Jo Chandler sets out on a quest that takes her across the Antarctic ice, under the seas and through the tropical rainforests of far north Queensland. Her mission is to explore one of the defining mysteries of our age-climate change. She takes us into wild landscapes in the company of scientists trying to decode climate information that will be critical to the decisions we make for the future of the planet.

UNDERGROUND TALK PROGRAM: Help us spread the work about these great bookshop events. Entry is $5/$2 and everyone is welcome!

Geography: 
Melbourne

Public Rally - Maintain Your Age!

Submitted by Flowerpower on Wed, 18/05/2011 - 5:54pm
Date and Time: 
Thu, 19/05/2011 -
12:00pm to 2:00pm
Location: 
the grassy knoll in front of Media House (The Age building), corner Collins and Spencer Streets, Melbourne.

Fairfax Media is undermining quality journalism by outsourcing production of its news, sport and business pages to a company half-owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Ltd.

Tomorrow, Fairfax staff and their supporters will be holding a public rally in front of The Age building to fight for quality independent journalism at Fairfax, and…

You’re invited!

Among the special guests are:

* Former Premier John Cain
* Father Bob Maguire
* Designer Jenny Bannister
* Investigative reporter Richard Baker
* ACTU president Ged Kearney

Geography: 
Melbourne

Fair go Fairfax - Don't discount journalism

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 18/05/2011 - 5:53pm

Working journalists at Fairfax Media are engaged in a fight for their future and the future of their newspapers. The announcement this week by Fairfax management that they intend to rip $25 million out of the cost of running their major metropolitan mastheads, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age by sacking up to 100 subeditors and other production staff, is a plan that risks irrevocable damage to these loved and respected newspapers.

Geography: 
Melbourne
Keywords: 
The Age
MEAA
Fairfax

End Mandatory Detention: Protest at Maribyrnong Detention Centre

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 17/05/2011 - 7:54pm
Date and Time: 
Sun, 29/05/2011 -
2:00pm to 5:00pm
Location: 
Maribyrnong Detention Centre 53 Hampstead Road Maidstone

Australia's barbaric system of mandatory detention includes detention centres offshore, in deserts, but in the suburbs of major cities as well. One of those centres is in Maribyrnong in Melbourne's West, where high security fencing surround people who are locked up for doing nothing more than seeking asylum.

Geography: 
Melbourne