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Hanson warns 'traitor' MPs
By Bill Mason BRISBANE — The crisis in Pauline Hanson's racist One Nation party has deepened. ... "Crooke's comment shows nothing much has changed", Graham Matthews, Brisbane organiser of the ...
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ALP challenged in Woodridge by-election
ALP challenged in Woodridge by-election By Jim McIlroy BRISBANE — Peter Beattie's Labor ... Democratic Socialist Party (DSP) Brisbane organiser Graham Matthews told Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly. The problem of ...
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Howard's IVF discrimination opposed
Howard's IVF discrimination opposed BY LYDIA LEONARD BRISBANE — More than 100 people rallied ... collective meetings to carry the rally's demands on into next year and beyond. The Brisbane Reclaim the ...
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Military 'consultation' attracts protest
Military 'consultation' attract protest BY ADAM BAKER BRISBANE — "There will always ... which was held in the Long Room of Customs House, was organised by the Brisbane S11 Alliance. The S11 ...
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Prisons 'out of bounds' for media
Prisons 'out of bounds' for media BY KAREN FREDERICKS BRISBANE — Queensland police have ... and the ombudsman are based in Brisbane", she said. "Prisoners could go months or even years ...
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Grassroots action needed against mandatory sentencing
Grassroots action needed against mandatory sentencing By Edward Johnstone BRISBANE — Two hundred ... formerly a lawyer with the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Service in Brisbane, spoke of the ...
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Aboriginal academic assaulted and charged
Aboriginal academic assaulted and charged By Bill Mason BRISBANE — Professor Gracelyn Smallwood, ... rights". Brisbane Resistance organiser Angela Luvera told Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly on February 26, "This is ...
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Thousands rally to save Ansett jobs
BY NICK EVERETT Thousands of Ansett workers have rallied in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane to ... buyer had been found. In Brisbane, Kerry Burns reports, over 1500 workers rallied in King George Square, ...
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Union to join independent breaching inquiry
BY JIM MCILROY BRISBANE — The Community and Public Sector Union has announced it will join an ... [Jim McIlroy is a CPSU delegate at a Centrelink call centre in Brisbane.] August 29, 2001 462 News ...
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Strike wave hits over jobs, wages
BY BILL MASON BRISBANE — Stoppages and pickets are breaking out in the electricity and building ... including the Royal Brisbane and Women's hospitals and the Maryborough Prison. The workers were ...
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Resistance hits the campuses
week, with more than 60 people joining the socialist organisation in Brisbane, Newcastle and Perth. Many ... University in Brisbane. At Newcastle University, 19 people joined Resistance. "There was a lot of ...
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Opposition to sand mining on Stradbroke
By Ruth Ratcliffe BRISBANE — Around 60 people gathered at Dunwich on Stradbroke Island ... the protesters, most of whom had come from Brisbane, although there was significant representation ...
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Action updates
Rock Against Racism BRISBANE — An impressive line-up of Brisbane bands swung their support behind ...
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Debate on post-Kernot politics
Debate on post-Kernot politics BRISBANE — Thirty people gathered at the Resistance Centre on ... through the Green Alliance in the Brisbane council elections. Drew Hutton from the Greens felt that ...
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Labor funds Queensland prison boom
By Karen Fredericks BRISBANE — The Peter Beattie Labor state government on September 15 announced ... women's prison on the outskirts of Brisbane. The total corrective services budget is nearly $500 million. ...
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'Put Hanson Last!'
'Put Hanson Last!' By Chris Dawson and Nick Everett BRISBANE — Around 800 people ... candidate for South Brisbane, Coral Wynter, called for "a real alternative to the policies of One ...
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Liberals waver on One Nation preferences
By Bill Mason BRISBANE — Under intense criticism, including from within its own ranks, the ... "divisive" party. Democratic Socialist candidate for Brisbane Central Graham Matthews slammed the ...
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Chosen by the listeners
BRISBANE — Community radio 4ZZZ was born 23 years ago, the first FM station in Queensland. Stations like ... first track by Brisbane band Escape from Toytown with "Fish and Chips Bitch from Ipswich", ...
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Actions around Australia condemn violence in Mexico
escalation of violence in Mexico, activists in Brisbane, Canberra and Sydney organised protest actions on ... between the government, security forces and the paramilitaries in the massacres. In Brisbane a picket of ...
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Wharfies seek solidarity
Wharfies seek solidarity By Graham Mathews BRISBANE — Wharfies here are ready to defend their ... National Farmers Federation is training scabs in New Zealand bound for Brisbane. The wharfies told Green ...
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TWU defends delegates under attack
By Bill Mason BRISBANE — The Queensland branch of the Transport Workers Union is challenging ... office, disguised as new employees of this Brisbane truck yard, set out to catch these two men carrying ...
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FMLN calls for solidarity
By Bill Mason BRISBANE — At its 5th national convention in San Salvador last December, El ... voting rights. Rafael Pacheco, spokesperson for Australian Aid for El Salvador in Brisbane, reported on ...
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'Dare to struggle' against anti-union laws
'Dare to struggle' against anti-union laws By Jim McIlroy BRISBANE — "Dare to ... a mass stop-work rally and march in Brisbane on November 29, the scheduled date for the presentation of ...
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Mapoon elder slams Lingard over 'straw hut' remarks
Mapoon elder slams Lingard over 'straw hut' remarks By Bill Mason BRISBANE — A leader of ... Brisbane branch of Resistance, Peter Robson, said on November 13. "The attack on the Mapoon community ...
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Racist politicians condemned
By Michael White BRISBANE — At a rally held at Roma Street Forum on March 15, Aboriginal elders ... Brisbane elder Ruth Hegarty told the rally that Aboriginal people were taxed in a discriminatory manner ...