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Deaths in custody at 'unacceptable' level
By Craig Cormick SAM WATSON is an Aboriginal activist, writer and manager of the Brisbane ... Aboriginal people still have very limited economic power. In Brisbane, for example, there are probably about ...
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Keeping Koori youth out of jail
NSW. The only other bail house in Australia is located in Brisbane. Koori youth on remand in other ... transferred out there rather than being here, in the same environment." Brisbane's bail house, which ...
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The fight against Adani steps up a notch聽
Jagalingou people protest in Brisbane in 2015 against the proposed Adani coalmine in the Galilee Basin. ...
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'Venezuelans demand respect for our country and people'- Open letter to Foreign Correspondent
Foreign Correspondent by Eulalia Reyes, a Venezuelan activist and Brisbane co-coordinator of the ...
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Our cities need better public transport
cause of intergalactic mobility. Brisbane transport activist David Engwitch has had a similar ... Engwitch describes the process by which he became involved in the campaign against Brisbane's Route ... upheaval he and his neighbours would suffer, the construction of a mega-road, part of the Brisbane ...
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Varied views on national green party
A Green Party in Brisbane got going about the same time as us in Sydney in 1984, and it promptly fell ... campaign in the recent Brisbane city council elections, questioned whether the tional green party: "In ... Brisbane we were able to unite very diverse forces for a very successful campaign. We won more than 20% in ...
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Join the campaign to block the bill
parade; the refusal by medical professionals at the Lady Cilento Children鈥檚 Hospital in Brisbane to ...
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Black deaths in custody: 鈥榃here鈥檚 the justice?鈥
Brisbane on October 22. The call to action was specifically protesting the murders in custody of Wayne ...
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Morrison鈥檚 hand-out to developers no solution to housing affordability crisis
Australia, especially in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane, is expensive and increasingly unaffordable, but that ...
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Letters to the editor
news that cultural dissent will be revived in Brisbane as Cabaret Resist. I wish Dave Riley and all ... I worked there for a while. I am sure that Reedy River would be a big success in Brisbane. Dick Diamond ... Ireland's quest for unity and a democratic peace settlement". In Brisbane 1200 people including Mayor ...
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Waiting for justice
officer outside a hotel in Brisbane's Fortitude Valley. She was placed in a cell with two other ... charge counter at the Brisbane City Watch-house. They were left unattended and unobserved for at least 40 ... in Brisbane on November 10, 1989. As with the Glenn Allan Clark case, the police interviewed for this ...
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Who is KONY 2012 to start a war?
Anti-racism Democracy Imperialism & war Ben Peterson KONY 2012 A telling quote in the film KONY 2012 says: 鈥淲ho are you to stop a war? 鈥 the question is, who are you not to?鈥 I think the question that the people behind KONY 2012, which went viral on t ...
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WikiLeaks cables show how Australia works with the US to get Iran
Linda Pearson Barely 10 years after false claims about weapons of mass destruction were used to justify the invasion of Iraq, a similar narrative is being used by politicians in the US and Israel to push the case for war with Iran. You might not know it f ...
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Health professionals to be exempted from Border Force Act
Brisbane in February. Baby Asha was set to be deported back to Nauru after coming to Australia for medical ...
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Football fans 1 鈥 Police 0
A-League season opener against Brisbane Roar at Parramatta (Pirtek) Stadium. Led by the Red and Black Bloc ... Wanderers players on the pitch squandered chance after chance to lose 3-1 to Brisbane on the back of some ...
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Vigil for baby Asha deepens pressure on Turnbull
Turnbull #LetThemStay The vigil for baby Asha outside the Lady Cilento Children's Hospital in Brisbane ... the hospital while her father was staying at a Brisbane detention centre and visiting daily. He told ...
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How to win Aboriginal justice
movement emerged in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane in the late 60s, thousands of Aboriginal people took to ... Black activism. Thousands of Aboriginal people converged on Brisbane to protest the 鈥82 Commonwealth ...
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Tackling tax avoidance at the G20
meeting in Brisbane is how to set up an international framework to stop this tax avoidance. Unfortunately, ... against the G20 in Brisbane should be one focus. Tax the rich is a slogan we can take to those protests. ...
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Groups demand new approach to asylum seekers and refugees
Commission of Brisbane Catholic Religious Australia Catholic Social Services Australia Centacare Centacare ... Connections Socialist Alliance South West Brisbane Community Legal Centre Inc Southern Junction Community ...
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'Only people power can win!'
in Adelaide, 25,000-30,000 in Brisbane, 6000 in Hobart, 5000 in Canberra and 3000 in Darwin. Marches ... 35,000 people rallied outside the Brisbane metropolitan area, 10,000 in regional South Australia, 5000 in ...
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Tales of the "rorted and empty" ALP
Crean opts for Brisbane, only to stuff up big time by focussing on disarming Saddam Hussein of ... against war and Howard, "the Leader of the Opposition gets booed off the stage in Brisbane ...
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Negligence, malpractice and stolen wages
funding. In June, NSW claimants and campaigners attended a Stolen Wages Working Group meeting in Brisbane ... at Parliament House in Brisbane and called for two national days of action, one to be held on Human ...
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Water trading is drought profiteering
Victorian towns on level 4 water restrictions. Brisbane and South-East Queensland, already on level 4(level ... Brisbane's water supply is the lowest of Australia's big cities, it is not unusual. As of November 16, ...
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Water crisis: how the market economy is sucking us dry
31.5% below average. Other urban centres such as Perth, Brisbane and Sydney have even less water in ... Governments have proposed a number of measures to deal with the crisis. In Brisbane there are moves to recycle ...
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Industrial relations: choice cuts
meeting that had been organised by a Brisbane community group to talk about Work Choices. He was an EFTPOS ... to Brisbane, met with Brad, his supervisor and others, sorted it out and went away. Mission ...