Andrew ShieldsThe waters sift new songs
Ocean Song at South Head
Oormila Vijayakrishnan Prahlad
#Poetry #OormilaVijayakrishnanPrahlad #OceanSong #SouthHead #InkSweatAndTears #Gemini #Gadigal
https://inksweatandtears.co.uk/oormila-vijayakrishnan-prahlad-2/
Peter RileyEav Brennan (she/her) is an environmental educator and comics artist who is a settler on #Gadigal Country.
Her first book, Graphic Ecology, a comic essay about visualising ecological ideas which she co-authored with Dr Caitlyn Forster, was published in 2024.
https://overland.org.au/2026/02/colonial-authoritarianism-did-not-start-with-chris-minns/
#Art #Authoritarianism #EavBrennan #Colonialism #illustration #Palestine #Solidarity
GM7077All this to protect a National Socialist!?
"A 69-year-old woman is recovering in hospital with four broken vertebrae after a police officer allegedly pushed her down “very violently” and “without warning” at Sydney’s protest against a visit by the Israeli president."
'From Gadigal to Gaza, globalise the Intifada'
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- Grace Tame, former Australian of The Year.
#Gaza #genocide #Palestine #Australia #ZionistEntity #Gadigal
EndemicEarthlingIt was sickening though also enlightening to hear NSW Premier #ChrisMinns on the radio (ABC) this morning. It helpfully clarified that fundamentally, the public reason for all the chaos in Sydney's CBD last night, the reason Minns insisted NSW police prevent any march from occurring, is at its core quite deeply bigoted and racist.
What Minns admitted to in that interview this morning is that he did not trust rally organisers to do what they said they would do. He did not trust that a rally route ending at parliament house wouldn't actually be a Trojan horse for protesters to suddenly break off through police lines and go rampaging on a pogrom through the streets, looking for Jewish people to harm. That is why there couldn't be a march.
Something like 100 rallies organised by the same people, at which we have followed the agreed route every time. A hundred rallies without any arrests for violence or flouting lawful police directions (indeed, the only charges of violence in the context of 28 months of anti-genocide protest are from a police officer recklessly causing grievous bodily harm to a political candidate who ran against Prime Minister Albanese and came second to him in his electorate).
#NSWpol #NSWPolice #protest #Sydney #Gadigal #CriminalisationOfDIssent #HerzogNotWelcome
lumpenproletariatAnarcho-Syndicalist Federation 40th Anniversary
The genesis of the ASF can be traced back to the founding of the ‘Sydney Anarchist Group’ in 1956 by anarchist exiles from Bulgaria, former members of the Bulgarian Section of the IWA, CNT-B along with others in Sydney sympathetic to anarchism. Two of those involved, Georg Hristov and Alex Boneff, would be founding members of the ASF in 1986. Members of the Sydney Anarchist Group distributed a leaflet at the 1959 May Day march organised by the NSW Trades and Labour Council called ‘Anarcho-Syndicalism’. An official of the NSWTLC gave a copy of the leaflet to the NSW Police and told them there were ‘anarchists among the crowd”.
Yabun Festival 2026
2026-01-26T10:00:00 (Australia/Melbourne)
When
10:00am to 7:00pm Monday 26 January
Where
Victoria Park
Parramatta Rd
Broadway NSW 2008
Australia
Why
Yabun, “music to a beat” in the Gadigal language, is one of the most significant cultural gatherings on the national calendar. As the largest and most powerful community-led celebration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture in Australia, Yabun brings First Nations people and allies together to honour history, acknowledge loss, and celebrate the ongoing survival, strength, and excellence of First Nations Peoples. The festival showcases the depth, diversity and vibrancy of First Nations Culture through a full day of traditional and contemporary music, dance, panel discussions, workshops, markets and community activations.
Held annually on 26 January, Yabun offers a vital space for truth-telling, cultural expression and community connection. For many, it is a day of reflection and remembrance; for others, it is a powerful affirmation of endurance and cultural pride. For all who attend, it is an opportunity to stand in solidarity with the world’s oldest living culture. Read more.
Artwork
The official artwork for Yabun 2026 is an oil painting by proud Wiradjuri and Biripi man, James P. Simon. Read more.
Quokka2026 Invasion Day march and rally on Gadigal Coutry
2026-01-26T10:00:00 (Australia/Melbourne)
When
10:00am Monday 26 January
Where
Archibald Fountain
Hyde Park North
Sydney NSW 2000
Australia
Why
While the colony rallies behind glossy “March for Australia” displays and politicians keep insisting we’re all moving forward together, our communities are watching a very different story unfold in NSW. One where governments expand police powers that hit our young people first, child removals keep rising despite endless promises of change, and decisions about Country are made without the people who hold the oldest authority here. It’s been a year where national pride is being marketed louder than ever, yet the truth of ongoing harm, dispossession, and state violence is pushed further out of sight.
In 2025 in New South Wales alone, 12 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have died in custody so far, the highest number on record for any year. In NSW, Aboriginal children make up around 40% of all kids in “care”, despite being a tiny fraction of the child population.
And all of this is happening as the world watches multiple genocides unfold overseas, with Australia refusing to take a meaningful stance beyond carefully managed statements and political distance. The Albanese and Minns governments sit on their hands, offering sympathy without action, while communities across this continent rally in solidarity because we recognise state violence when we see it. Instead of listening, governments clamp down on protest, censor voices, and criminalise resistance; the same tactics historically used against our own people. It’s no coincidence: a nation built on dispossession will always try to control the voices that call it out, whether those voices are fighting for justice here or standing with communities fighting for survival abroad.
The Blak Caucus is calling people together because sovereignty has never been ceded, and because every struggle our communities face is tied to a system built on invasion, genocide and lies.
For updates check the Facebook event.
Forest.Today's enormous march was also a powerful repudiation of Premier Chris Minns' attempts to criminalise and demonise public protest in NSW over the last 21 months—efforts that have seen Premier Minns awarded a special medal by Israeli President Isaac Herzog, an individual many believe to be guilty of the crime of incitement to genocide due to numerous public statements he has made in support of the Netanyahu government's genocidal campaign in Gaza. Minns has faced no public consequence from his federal counterparts for accepting this award, despite the notorious origin of the award, and despite the apparent over-reach of a state government official receiving an award for a foreign power for his efforts in suppressing public criticism of that power (as a state representative, he is not meant to meddle in federal foreign policy).
Minns attempts to stifle this march were rejected by the NSW Supreme Court yesterday in a powerful ruling affirming the fact that protest will always involve inconvenience and disruption, and consequently, NSW Police were directed to facilitate rather than suppress today's march.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckirKaU8_94
#ChrisMinns #NSWpol #protest #CriminalisationOfDissent #NSWSupremeCourt #NSWpolice #IsaacHerzog #IncitementToGenocide #MarchForHumanity #Sydney #Gadigal
