Bjelke Blues - Stories of Repression and Reistance in Joh Bjelke Petersen's QLD

Very excited to have my “Taking it to the streets” chapter on the history of street protests in Queensland being launched tonight at Kurilpa Hall, West End.

Bjelke Blues includes forty-five short stories & memoirs by Queensland writers. Stories of corruption & violence. Stories of repression & resistance.

More than 250 pages that peel back the rotten banana that was life in this state under Gerrymander-Joh - Plenty to feed the chooks with - Historian Ray Evans will launch the book. Several of the writers will read from their stories - including Nick Earls, Anne Jones, Jeanelle Hurst, Paul Richards, Nicky Peelgrane & Warren Ward.

https://workersbushtelegraph.com.au/2019/08/11/bjelke-blues-book-launch/

Brisbane 2019

Tonwville 1985