Chris "Pineapple" Hooper

AN APPEAL FOR HELP
Keep Peacebus on the road
“Friends, Peacebus is my far travelling mobile home and campaign support vehicle.
Horn speakers and bamboo poles on its roofracks, crates of banners and flags under its bunk, Peacebus has been on the road for over 25 years journeying for justice, protesting for peace and speaking out for a sustaining Earth.
With Peacebus, I have been able to travel far, organise, bear witness, share, teach and inspire mastery in the arts of protest.
Many are the friends of Peacebus.
Alas, a month ago in the summer heat, on the Hume Highway for the campaign, I cooked the engine and wrote that Hiace off.”
“I reckon I need about $15k to buy another serviceable Hiace and fit i it out as a Peacebus.
A big reach for this old age pensioner.
The kindness of friends is what has always sustained Peacebus and its journey.
Please reach out to me now and donate.
With many thanks,
Graeme Dunstan”
KEEP PEACEBUS ON THE ROAD

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Digital ID Bill 2023 and the Digital ID (Transitional and Consequential Provisions) Bill 2023

On 30 November 2023, the Senate referred the Digital ID Bill 2023 and the Digital ID (Transitional and Consequential Provisions) Bill 2023 to the Senate Economics Legislation Committee for inquiry and report by 28 February 2024.

Submissions

The closing date for the committee receiving submissions is 19 January 2024.

www aph gov au /Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Senate/Economics/DigitalIDBills2023

Digital ID Bill 2023 and the Digital ID (Transitional and Consequential Provisions) Bill 2023 On 30 November 2023, the Senate referred the Digital ID Bill 2023 and the Digital ID (Transitional and Consequential Provisions) Bill 2023 to the Senate Economics Legislation Committee for inquiry and report by 28 February 2024. Submissions The closing date for the committee r

A vigil at the Riverfest for Julian Assange, leaving Havachat at 20 East Street, 6pm tonight 29th July.

Media release: Challenging the U.S. Alliance in a time of U.S. war preparations

A community SpeakOut about the costs and consequences of the U.S. Alliance will take place

from 6 pm Saturday 22 July 2023
Queen Street Community Hall
29 Queen Street, Yeppoon

This coincides with the day when Exercise Talisman Sabre, the massive U.S. led war rehearsals begin at the Shoalwater Bay Military Training Area and elsewhere in northern Australia.

The Department of Defence boasts that this tenth Talisman Sabre is the biggest yet with over 30,000 troops from eleven different national armies engaged.
"This is no harmless military exercise," says long time peace activist Graeme Dunstan. "It is a rehearsal for war with China!."

Eighty year old Mr Dunstan, a former Duntroon cadet, has been speaking out against U.S. wars since his student days. He was prosecuted for helping disable an Army helicopter during Talisman Sabre 2011, the trial of which became the subject of the David Bradbury movie, War on Trial.

"All wars are folly and tragedy", said Mr. Dunstan. "But a war with China, our largest trading partner and the foundation of our present prosperity, would be a disaster for Australia.”

"Time to speak out!" he said.

The Yeppoon SpeakOut will be an open mike affair, an opportunity for people to speak their minds and share their concerns and feelings about U.S. led wars.
Among the speakers will be:

John Shipton, father of Julian Assange, the former CQU student who is being held on remand in a London maximum security jail for publishing the truth about U.S. war crimes. His fourth year in solitary confinement!

David McBride, the former SAS Major charged for releasing documents that revealed the murderous deeds of Cpl Ben Roberts Smith VC, the former Afghan war hero, now disgraced.

Reference will be drawn to the recently released People's Inquiry into the costs and consequences of Australia’s involvement in US-led wars and the US-Alliance conducted by IPAN, the Independent and Peaceful Australia Network.

Further information
Graeme Dunstan 0407 951 688
John Shipton 0452 662 222

JOIN US TO
SPEAK OUT ABOUT
ENDLESS U.S. WARS

ALONG WITH:

JOHN SHIPTON
Father of Julian Assange
and anti-war activist.

DAVID MCBRIDE
Former military lawyer and
defence whistleblower.

GRAEME DUNSTAN
Cultural and political activist, and
peace crusader

Everyone is welcome to come to a community SpeakOut about the costs and consequences of the US Alliance.
Join us on Day 1 of Exercise Talisman Sabre, the US led war rehearsals, as it launches at the Shoalwater Bay Military Training Area.

SATURDAY 22 JULY
FROM 6PM
AT QUEEN STREET HALL
YEPPOON

OPEN MIC - BRING A PLATE

The message is clear, we want Julian Assange free and back home with his family. More posts and photos are in the Free Julian Assange Central Queensland page https://www.facebook.com/FreeAssangeCQ/

Calling out to Julian Assange supporters in Rockhampton. We'll get out the Banana Bike. Its huge... got 7 seats and so needs 14 legs to peddle it.. If you have a couple of good strong or even not so strong legs that you can bring along tomorrow morning. Sat 8th July a bit before 10am to the "Havachat shop" @ 20 East St that will b fantastic. It will be fun and help to raise awareness of Julians plight.

https://www.facebook.com/FreeAssangeCQ/posts/pfbid02gypXTcL38N3CEedu4TFTJLSSxMJuw7EuSUc5dAVBqF5KERLSUSnvZ4BxAkk9efoel

https://cqtoday.com.au/news/2023/04/25/mp-nicknames-laws-after-would-be-mayor/

Swiss journalist report - Adani and Waddananggu.

Poisonous coal in Australia With the war in Ukraine forcing Europe to seek alternatives to Russian fossil fuels, Australia is opening dozens of coal mines – and sacrificing its natural and cultural heritage in the process. In remote areas of Queensland, Aborigines and environmentalists are organising resistance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlTjiFujrZ0

Hopes for vintage bike museum as cycling and history brings community together | ABC Australia Graeme Meade has a vintage bike collection so large he doesn’t know exactly how many are in it, other than to guess it’s between 50 and 100. He has been buil...

Last week around 150 people turned up to celebrate one year of continuous Waddananggu (The Talking) ceremony.

"In what is believed to be a first, these Wangan and Jagalingou traditional owners are using the Queensland Human Rights Act to occupy a mining lease held by Bravus, the Australian arm of Indian mining giant Adani.

And there appears to be little the mine can do about it."

'Legal pioneers' or 'unauthorised'? Traditional owners occupy Bravus mine site for more than a year After a series of failed legal challenges and their native title being extinguished, a group of Wangan and Jagalingou traditional owners are using a human rights act to occupy land at Bravus's Carmichael Coal mine in central Queensland.