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  1. Vale Bernie Neville

    Australia (ETU) Privatisation casualisation Magan-djin/Brisbane If anything reflected Bernie Neville’s view ...

  2. Focus on Gaza

    Dave Riley BRISBANE — Cynthia Merchant, an activist with the Queensland Palestine Solidarity ... decided upon at its next Brisbane gathering in two weeks time. Australia January 24, 2009 780 News ...

  3. Qld to sell $15bn of public assets

    Dave Riley Magan-djin/Brisbane Citing the dubious need for Queensland to keep its AAA credit ... way upgrades across suburban Brisbane — was in the pipeline long before the world economic crisis and ... Queensland Public Sector Union told the Brisbane Times that the job security of the 25% of state public ...

  4. Unions rally to stop Qld gov't sell-off

    Dave Riley Magan-djin/Brisbane Fifteen hundred trade unionists and supporters marched through the ... streets of Brisbane to state parliament on July 3 to oppose the ALP state government's planned ... fight against the privatisation of the Brisbane City Council bus service in the 1990s with community ...

  5. Tamil plight: 'More than a humanitarian crisis'

    Dave Riley Magan-djin/Brisbane A June 23 forum on the Tamil struggle for self-determination drew ... 30 people to the Brisbane activist centre. The meeting heard from Marty Gnanananthan from the Tamil ...

  6. Socialists to contest QLD elections

    Dave Riley Magan-djin/Brisbane With the Queensland ALP state government rumoured to announce an ... inner urban seat of South Brisbane, standing against state Premier Anna Bligh, the SA candidate is ... Indigenous activist Sam Watson. Watson is well known in Brisbane as one of the main community spokespersons ...

  7. Vote socialist for Sandgate!

    Dave Riley Magan-djin/Brisbane Mike Crook says he became radicalised by seeing the way ... when he moved to Queensland in 1989 and joined the ALP. In Brisbane, Crook worked in the Department of ... Kilcoy", he said, "and one night someone backed a truck into the shop." After moving to Brisbane ...

  8. Rebel priest sacked by archbishop

    Dave Riley Magan-djin/Brisbane Although the parish priest of St Mary's Catholic Church in ... South Brisbane, Father Peter Kennedy, was summarily sacked on February 6, the parish's 1000-strong ... of South Brisbane and leading Indigenous activist, is a long-time supporter of St Mary's. ...

  9. Tamil solidarity expressed

    Dave Riley Magan-djin/Brisbane Thirty-five people packed into the Activist Centre on February 13 ...

  10. Work Choices seminar picketed

    Dave Riley Magan-djin/Brisbane Government and business representatives attending a Work Choices ...

  11. Stop the sell-off!

    Dave Riley Magan-djin/Brisbane Queensland has been thrown into a battle with Premier Anna Bligh, ... the sell-off goes ahead. The tour ended in a July 3 Brisbane rally that drew 1500 people. A week ... campaign in Brisbane, the Gold Coast, Maryborough and Cairns. Unlike the ALP, the Socialist Alliance agrees ...

  12. MPs quit union over anti-privatisation campaign

    Dave Riley Magan-djin/Brisbane Rail commuters are the latest victims of the Anna Bligh state Labor ... are made in Brisbane instead of us being continually dictated to by an out of touch and arrogant ...

  13. Aboriginal victory: Palm Island cop charged

    Anthony Murray Dave Riley Magan-djin/Brisbane A major victory has been won by the Aboriginal ... Boe, Palm Island council's legal adviser, to the 700 people gathered at Brisbane's annual ... many Indigenous activists had come to Brisbane for the protest from communities across Queensland and ...

  14. Justice for Mulrunji!

    Dave Riley Magan-djin/Brisbane The report handed down by Queensland deputy coroner Christine ... Programs such as Brisbane's MurriWatch — a visitor program covering all city watch-houses and run by ...

  15. Queensland campaign for Indigenous rights to continue

    Dave Riley Magan-djin/Brisbane The Queensland Police Union (QPU) has launched a series of radio ... gathered in Brisbane's Musgrave Park on June 22 to consider the Hurley verdict, but also to develop ...

  16. Protests condemn Haneef's detention

    Dave Riley Magan-djin/Brisbane On July 20, 80 people rallied outside the Brisbane immigration ...

  17. Mulrunji inquest to re-open

    Dave Riley Magan-djin/Brisbane The inquest into the death in custody of Palm Island man Mulrunji ...

  18. Cameron Doomadgee: 'Do right by my brother'

    Dave Riley Magan-djin/Brisbane Queensland Murris (Indigenous Australians) and their supporters ...

  19. Police racism: Stop deaths in custody!

    Dave Riley Magan-djin/Brisbane In a damning report released on September 27, Queensland's ... Watson at a Socialist Alliance meeting in Brisbane on October 4. The following is abridged from his ... Aboriginal community in Brisbane is in daily contact with the mob on Palm. I have blood relatives on Palm. ...

  20. Government policies killing aboriginals

    Dave Riley Magan-djin/Brisbane On January 18, the Australian ran a story on a leaked report ... Aboriginal communities, and in areas such as Inala, Woodridge and across Brisbane, there are many Aboriginal ... through the middle of Brisbane and not one single business is owned, operated or managed by an Aboriginal ...

  21. Behind the Qld oil spill disaster

    Dave Riley Magan-djin/Brisbane On March 11, a 185-metre container ship, the Pacific Adventurer was ... en route from Newcastle to Indonesia via Brisbane when it lost 31 containers in heavy seas about ...

  22. Indigenous anger at ongoing injustice

    Dave Riley Magan-djin/Brisbane Last September, Queensland's acting state coroner Christine ... took place are being challenged. As Brisbane-based Murri activist Sam Watson told GLW, "there is ...

  23. Mulrunji campaign: Racist police fear justice

    Dave Riley Magan-djin/Brisbane "It must never again be the case that a death in custody, of ... perspectives emerging from this new, more radical, leadership. As Koori activist Jenny Monroe told the Brisbane ...

  24. Qld gives Bligh another chance

    primary vote. In South Brisbane, running against Bligh, Socialist Alliance's Sam Watson obtained ...

  25. More than songs for the dispossessed

    Dave Riley Phil Monsour is a singer/songwriter based in Brisbane. His songs reflect a passionate ... the last few years in Brisbane, the group of people I started organising with have built strong ... connections with people in the Palestinian and the Arab communities in Brisbane. "That's why those ...

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