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Actions for East Timor
Actions for East Timor Fifty people participated in a speak-out for East Timor in Brisbane on ... bring any closer an end to the occupation of East Timor. A candlelight vigil will be held in Brisbane to ...
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Action updates
rosters aimed at cutting overtime and wages. BRISBANE 鈥 A meeting of about 70 people at the Queensland ... a struggle in which Macdonald was deeply involved. The meeting was organised by the Brisbane Labour History ...
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'A wasted six-year opportunity'
'A wasted six-year opportunity' By Jim McIlroy BRISBANE 鈥 "Whichever way the final ... Queensland", Democratic Socialist candidate for Brisbane Central Zanny Begg commented on July 16. Begg had ...
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Socialists call for 'people before profit'
Socialists call for 'people before profit' By Bill Mason BRISBANE 鈥 The Democratic ... Socialist candidate for the seat of Brisbane Central, Zanny Begg, called for the creation of "a new ...
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Mt Isa workers vote on log of claims
Mt Isa workers vote on log of claims By Bill Mason BRISBANE 鈥 A mass meeting of unionists at the ... rise, free annual air fares to Brisbane and a 38-hour work week. The log, draw up by the ACTU, was ...
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Socialist slams 'poverty state'
Socialist slams 'poverty state' By Bill Mason BRISBANE 鈥 "Why is Queensland, the ... a statement released on June 17. Begg is running for the Democratic Socialist campaign in the seat of Brisbane ...
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Goss condemned on jailing move
Goss condemned on jailing move By Bill Mason BRISBANE 鈥 "The Goss Labor government wants to ... election", Zanny Begg, Democratic Socialist candidate for the seat of Brisbane Central, said on June 3. She ...
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Mt Isa tense despite return to work
By Jim McIlroy BRISBANE 鈥 A crane driver was stood down at MIM's Mt Isa mine in the days ... negotiations are under way. The other main issue of annual family airfares to Brisbane is still unresolved. Mt ...
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Steel Line Doors strikers tour Melbourne
Doors in Brisbane, who are among 17 unionists on strike against racial and trade union discrimination ... workers have a meeting with Alan Matheison of the ACTU in Brisbane on February 27. They will be asking the ...
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Forum on Soviet Union
By Roberto Jorquera BRISBANE 鈥 T 2>he first 麻豆传媒 Weekly forum here drew 65 people to ... the DSP pointed to the example of the Green Alliance, which ran in the last Brisbane city council ...
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People of Miles reject toxic dump
People of Miles reject toxic dump By Bill Mason BRISBANE 鈥 The Murilla Shire Council and the ... transport the waste from the Willawong site near Brisbane. Cabinet adopted a final Impact Assessment Study ...
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Joh trial foreman was National official
By Bill Mason BRISBANE, October 20 鈥 The perjury trial of Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen came to ... of a major hotel site in Brisbane in 1986.0> Sng had handed $100,000 in cash to Joh in a brown ...
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Gifts to Nats 'normal practice'
Gifts to Nats 'normal practice' By Bill Mason BRISBANE 鈥 The final round in the ... Singapore businessman Robert Sng, told the Brisbane District Court on September 26 that he was told that ...
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Budgies, Icarus and disintegration
Available from PO Box 274, Corinda, Brisbane 4075 Reviewed by Tracy Sorensen Like his Siberian tigers, ... solid, and his more political poems are distinctly left and green. A Brisbane-based teacher and writer, ...
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Green and left candidates
New South Wales Wentworth, Sydney, Newcastle, Shortland, Prospect ACT Fraser Queensland Brisbane and ... Ports Queensland Greens Bowman, Brisbane, Capricornia, Dawson, Dickson, Fairfax, Fisher, Forde, ...
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Socialist environment policy launched
Socialist environment policy launched By Bill Mason BRISBANE 鈥 "For over 200 years, ... candidate for Griffith, south of the Brisbane River. Australia's 70% arid lands have been ...
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A great start to the year
compared to last years average. The Brisbane branches have doubled their street sales of 麻豆传媒 in ... Council's campaign to ban selling in the Mall. Brisbane Resistance and DSP are campaigning hard against this ...
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Liveblog: Bust the Budget rallies July 6
representing the Nurses Union. Photos: Kathy Fairfax. * * * Updated 12:45pm. The rally in Brisbane has marched ... Brisbane is beginning the march, chanting "Abbott, Jockey! Go to Hell. Take your budget there as ... (@miss_mel_j) July 6, 2014 *** Updated 11:25am. The first rallies to kick off are Brisbane and Wodonga. It ...
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For a politically effective, mass protest action at CHOGM
BY SIMON BUTLER BRISBANE 鈥 Activists are preparing the ground for dynamic protests directed at the ... October 6-8 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Brisbane. At a city-wide meeting on June 14 it ... Members of the newly formed CHOGM Free Zone, for example, are committed to a blockade of the huge Brisbane ...
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The G20 Act won鈥檛 deter protests
to 鈥渃ity improvement works鈥 in an effort by the government 鈥渢o help Brisbane shine鈥 in time for the ... Brisbane. Musgrave Park has been a significant Aboriginal site both as a traditional meeting place and as ... Brisbane Aboriginal Sovereign Embassy. Conveniently, the entire park has been declared part of the red zone ...
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Conservationists seek funds to save south-east Queensland
By Anthony Brown BRISBANE 鈥 Lost in all the rhetoric of the federal election, an important event ... around Brisbane) and the proposed Brisbane Regional Environment Centre, the forum agreed that the ... said the dramatic rise in population in recent years, especially in and around Brisbane and the Gold ...
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Qld SA candidates: Reverse privatisation madness
鈥淭he catastrophic collapse of Brisbane鈥檚 train services on February 28 due to failure of power supply ... (South Brisbane) said in a joint statement. 鈥淓xperience tells us that privatising these essential ... worker for his local community. Liam Flenady, the Socialist Alliance candidate for South Brisbane, is ...
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News briefs 2
2 Rio Tinto protest: 'Human rights, not mining sites' BRISBANE 鈥 Anti-nuclear, West ... Tinto's Australian annual general meeting at the Brisbane Convention Centre. Under the theme "Human ... Association Brisbane, explained: "Rio Tinto's disregard for human rights, workers' rights and ...
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Australian newsbites
increases", Long said. Paul Benedek Invasion Day rally demands 'repay stolen wages' BRISBANE 鈥 The ... Lynda Hansen, Socialist Alliance candidate for South Brisbane, said the stolen wages were "slave ... inner-suburban Brisbane, and urged support for the rally to evict South Brisbane ALP MP Anna Bligh and turn her ...
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Action updates
Anti-nuclear protest BRISBANE 鈥 About 600 anti-nuclear protesters gathered in King George Square on August 9 to ... the construction of the Jabiluka uranium mine. The rally was organised by the Brisbane Jabiluka Action ... Graham Matthews, Democratic Socialist candidate for the federal seat of Brisbane, linked the ...