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Speaking out against sexual violence
Jay Fletcher Resistance! On September 17, the Uber Bar in Brisbane announced a new policy of ... involved three National Rugby League (NRL) players with the Brisbane Broncos allegedly raping a 24-year-old ... "keep supporting the Brisbane Broncos" as it faced Melbourne Storm in a semi-final match the ...
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Action updates
economical way for students to access reading material, have doubled in price. Stories of inequality BRISBANE ... Day program here, drew 45 people. The Brisbane Gay and Lesbian Pride Choir began the evening with ... excludes same sex partners. Women's history book launch BRISBANE — "This new pamphlet is an ...
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Socialists rally against racism
By Regan Davis and Tim E. Stewart BRISBANE — "Anti-racists on your feet! Join the march on ... federal seat of Brisbane, began with a fiery speech about how "the social decay over the last decade ... Lafferty from Resistance, a co-organiser of the Brisbane secondary school walkout against racism to be held ...
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Action updates
all are under pressure to increase commercial sponsorship. Stonewall march BRISBANE — One thousand ... part of Brisbane's sixth annual Lesbian and Gay Pride Festival. Michael Carden spoke of the ... Anti-nuclear forum BRISBANE — On June 28, 50 people attended a public meeting opposing French nuclear testing ...
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Workers demand united action
the metal workers) in Brisbane on May 19, union delegates in Mt Isa were initially sceptical. The ... grant workers benefits, in particular annual airfares to Brisbane — a traditional benefit which had been ... the rank and file were being ignored in the Brisbane talks. But Steve Hardwick and Disputes Committee ...
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Petroz: relying on East Timor's oil
February 1994, Brisbane-based oil and gas company Petroz NL has been the focus of protests over Australian ... subsidiary) and Brisbane-based Crusader Ltd are exploring what some experts believe to be one of the biggest ... Brisbane's main source of gas. In 1993 Petroz generated about 50% of its revenue from the sale of Surat Basin ...
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Why the government scapegoats union leaders
rally to protect penalty rates in Brisbane, 2017. Malcolm Turnbull John Setka Analysis ...
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#SOSManus: Let’s build the pressure to bring them here
minister Julie Bishop’s office; and by scaling the Sydney Opera House. Activists in Brisbane have launched ... the campaign to save Baby Asha in Brisbane in 2015, the Queensland Council of Unions got behind the ...
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Where to now for the Stop Adani movement
launched in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne. Local Stop Adani groups flourished. The aim was to break the ...
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Carol Lloyd: Counter culture hero and wild woman of rock (1948-2017)
Brisbane. Like the article? Subscribe  to Â鶹´«Ã½ now! You can also like  us on Facebook and follow us ...
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Vigils for Manus Island refugee Faysal Ishak Ahmed
refugee who died in Brisbane in 2014, after being transferred from Manus Island. Calls are growing for ... bring them here." Vigils for Faysal Ishak Ahmed, the Sudanese refugee who died in Brisbane after ... being medi-vacced to Brisbane hospital, will be held around the country over the next week, beginning ...
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‘We are watching’: Refugee activists occupy immigration offices
with people holding a vigil outside Brisbane’s Lady Cilento Hospital in support of medical ... hundreds of people sat down in the streets of Brisbane crossing their arms above their heads. This action ...
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We need to change the system, not the climate
Brisbane. Transition to making all new private cars and other road vehicles electric other than special-use ...
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Timorese condemn Ruddock's 'hampering' of inquiry
Timorese condemn Ruddock's 'hampering' of inquiry By Karen Fredericks BRISBANE ... — The spokesperson for the Brisbane East Timorese community has hit out at the refusal by federal ... Brisbane, because these people were family members who trusted me more than they trusted the Immigration ...
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Good news (for a change)
Council and Brisbane City Council. RAFFWU terminates dodgy 2005 IGA agreement On March 14 the Retail and ...
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'We demand a reason for hope'
plants instead of expanding public transport and renewable energy sources". In Brisbane, Dominic ... the Brisbane coal port, university-based protests, a public forum and a "critical mass" ... cycling action. The week will culminate in a September 28 rally targeting some of Brisbane's worst ...
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Mayors agree to Beattie's water plan
Jason Cahill, Brisbane In the wake of his government's messy handling of Queensland's ... local headlines. Brisbane's dams are currently sitting at under 28% of capacity and it has been at ... residents in Queensland's major metropolitan areas of the Gold Coast, Brisbane and the Sunshine Coast ...
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Murri community mobilise
Paul Benedek, Brisbane In the wake of horrific racist treatment of Indigenous people across ... September 9 state election in Premier Peter Beattie's seat of Brisbane Central. He, and all those at ... <brisbane@socialist-alliance.org>, or phone Paul on 0410 629 088. November 17, 1993 681 ...
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Burma pro-democracy protests supported
charged?" Jim McIlroy reports from Brisbane that 50 people participated in a rally, called at a day's ... notice, in in the Brisbane Square on September 28 to support democracy in Burma. Sam Watson, Indigenous ... Brisbane, and Willy Bach, Greens candidate for Griffiths. Rally chairperson Paul Benedek said that more ...
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Maleny protesters prepare to confront developers
Jim McIlroy, Brisbane "Now's the time — we're in the trenches", Platypus ... by supporters from Brisbane. "This is an issue that at first divided the town, but has now ... united it", local veterinary biologist Antara May told the June 25 Brisbane Courier-Mail. "Now ...
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June 30 protests 'first step to oust Howard'
Jim McIlroy, Brisbane Queensland unions are well under way with plans for a mass mobilisation of ... a TWU march of thousands in support of the MUA during the maritime dispute of 1998 on the Brisbane ... back then." He added that the TWU had decided to target Brisbane Liberal MP Ross Vasta, as part of ...
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Joh the tyrant of Queensland
Jim McIlroy, Brisbane Supporters of civil liberties, unionists, Aborigines, students and many ... concentrating on the rally in Brisbane on May 3. Joh Bjelke-Petersen, who died on April 23, was infamous ... crushed under his regime." Those attending the rally in Brisbane on May 3 will certainly be ...
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Theresa Creed: the crest of a new wave
REVIEW BY JOHN TRACEY BRISBANE — Theresa Creed has just recorded her first album, Unfinished ... of the calibre of Jimi Hendrix, moved to Brisbane and joined the black power movement during the ... "How", which was born in the struggles of the Brisbane Aboriginal community. Creed's insertion of ...
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Anti-war activist notebook
BRISBANE — More than 3000 people gathered in King George Square on April 13 for the annual "Rally for ... boycott US-made products as part of a campaign against the attack. Retiring Brisbane Lord Mayor Jim ... Raul on 0403 037 376. Anti-war activists target profiteers BY KERRY VERNON BRISBANE — On April 16, 30 ...
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Women march to reclaim the night
BY ROBYN MARSHALL BRISBANE — Twenty-five years after Australians first marched against sexual ... was in Brisbane, where despite a torrential rainstorm, 200 women marched across the Goodwill Bridge to ... Night Collective with the support of the Brisbane Rape and Incest Crisis Centre. Emma Murphy reports ...