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  1. Water guzzling corporations

    Jim McIlroy Magan-djin/Brisbane Despite the longstanding water supply crisis in Queensland, big ... inspected by the Brisbane City Council (BCC) were not complying with the legally required water efficiency ...

  2. Artists throw the book at Campbell Newman

    Rosa Louverture Magan-djin/Brisbane About 80 activists and artists gathered outside the Queensland ... Literary Awards. The picket was called by Socialist Alliance candidate for the seat of South Brisbane in ... especially apparent when viewed in tandem with Newman鈥檚 record as Mayor of the Brisbane City Council, when he ...

  3. Qld socialists prepare to fight Newman

    Socialist Alliance Selena Black Magan-djin/Brisbane The Socialist Alliance Queensland state ... conference was held at the Brisbane Activist Centre on May 19, attended by more than 40 members and ... Brisbane, told the audience: 鈥淐apitalism operates to separate us. We need to create a new society based on ...

  4. Thousands rally against Campbell Newman鈥檚 monster cuts

    Workers & unions Margaret Gleeson Magan-djin/Brisbane A day after the Queensland Liberal ... workers marched on parliament house in Brisbane, and marches and rallies were also held in several ... towns as a result of the cuts will hardly boost the economy. At the Brisbane rally, a speaker from the ...

  5. Big forum pledges more protest action on coal seam gas

    Mining Coal Climate crisis Environment Hannah Reardon-Smith Magan-djin/Brisbane About 160 people ... Brisbane group provided information to attendees on how to join the campaign and get active. October 16 ... planned for Brisbane. Australia September 8, 2011 895 Anti-coal seam gas protest, Brisbane, May 31. Photo: ...

  6. Bring troops home from Afghanistan to help with Qld flood crisis

    Socialist Alliance Magan-djin/Brisbane The statement below was released by the Brisbane Socialist ... Valley, and the looming floods now threatening to submerge large parts of Brisbane. "Combined, these ... Brisbane floods of 37 years ago. You all would have seen the news reports of what is happening so will only ...

  7. Hutchison verdict looms

    Hutchison Ports Port of Brisbane Gadigal Country/Sydney A resolution of the long-running dispute between the ... continue at the terminals at Port Botany and the Port of Brisbane. A further hearing in Fair Work Australia ... and Brisbane at any time. Visit the MUA website for more information. Like the article? Subscribe to ...

  8. West End rally for community control over development

    Democracy Economy Housing Alex Bainbridge Magan-djin/Brisbane "We can't afford your ... chant rang through the streets of West End in Brisbane as 150 people marched against the proposed ... of culture versus dollars and cents. Greens councillor on the Brisbane City Council and one of the ...

  9. Women picket Wicked Campers over sexist van art

    Emily Bellingham Cassandra Carse anti-sexism Magan-djin/Brisbane A group of women gathered in ... protest outside the Wicked Campers depot on August 16. Wicked Campers is a Brisbane-based company that ... and gave the company a six-month deadline. Since then, Webb has refused to meet with Brisbane women ...

  10. Queensland's coal and CSG industries are 鈥榓 cancer鈥, says candidate

    Elections Magan-djin/Brisbane Liam Flenady, the Socialist Alliance candidate for the seat of South ... Brisbane in the upcoming Queensland state elections, spoke with 麻豆传媒 Weekly 鈥檚 Jim McIlroy about his ... http://socialistalliance-brisbane.blogspot.com.au.] Australia February 23, 2012 912 Liam Flenady. News ...

  11. Flood victims picket insurance company

    Economy Jim McIlroy Magan-djin/Brisbane About 50 angry policyholders 鈥 victims of the huge floods ... that inundated large parts of Brisbane in January 鈥 protested outside the South Bank offices of ... flooding鈥. Flood victim Chester Chavez called for a boycott of NRMA and the Brisbane Broncos rugby league ...

  12. Fight against coal seam gas mining heats up in Qld

    Mining Coal Climate crisis Environment Jim McIlroy Magan-djin/Brisbane "This is the battle ... Great Artesian Basin, on April 14 in Brisbane. The forum, sponsored by 麻豆传媒 Weekly, also heard ... build a broad alliance to stop the CSG takeover of rural land. "An alliance of groups in Brisbane ...

  13. Qld election: socialist candidates call for radical change

    Elections Jim McIlroy Magan-djin/Brisbane Following Queensland Labor Premier Anna Bligh鈥檚 ... South Brisbane said on January 27: 鈥淭he major parties in the upcoming Queensland election stand for the ... support, phone 07 3831 2644, 0423 741 734, or email brisbane@greenleft.org.au.] Australia January 26, 2012 ...

  14. Qld unions to rally against ABCC

    Jim McIlroy Magan-djin/Brisbane "Construction unions across Australia are running the Rights ... there is a rally in Brisbane calling for the abolition of the ABCC, and in support of Victorian union ... According to the August 14 edition of Brisbane's Courier-Mail, a Building Labourers Federation worker ...

  15. 'Shame, Anna, shame!'

    Adam Baker Magan-djin/Brisbane Public sector workers across Queensland demonstrated in large ... Mackay, Gladstone and Brisbane. Fifteen unions have joined forces for the first time in 20 years on ... construction crews, cleaners, teachers and paramedics. The lunchtime rally in Brisbane attracted 3000 workers. ...

  16. 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 ...

  17. 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 ...

  18. 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. ...

  19. Abortion law raises its ugly head

    Ewan Amyntikos Magan-djin/Brisbane A 19-year-old Cairns woman faces up to 14 years in jail after ... Pro-choice group Children by Choice says the cost of an abortion in Queensland ranges from $300 in Brisbane ... woman herself for procuring an abortion. Naomi Rodgers-Falk, from Brisbane's Pro-Choice Action ...

  20. Alyawarr Protest House film draws crowds

    Indigenous Ewan Amyntikos Ampilatwatja Magan-djin/Brisbane More than 60 people attended ... Brisbane's premiere screening of a new documentary by Sydney's Actively Radical TV about the ... Brisbane Aboriginal Rights Coalition (ARC) and raised funds for a Justice Bus Trips to Alice Springs, to ...

  21. Indigenous activist slams major parties' 'race to the bottom' on refugees

    Magan-djin/Brisbane Brisbane Murri activist and Socialist Alliance Senate candidate Sam Watson made the following ... contribution to our community, in Brisbane and around the country. New generations of refugees and immigrants ...

  22. Abortion reform on agenda in Queensland

    Jim McIlroy Coral Wynter Magan-djin/Brisbane A report in the October 29 Brisbane Courier Mail ... government first got elected in 1992, Katrina Barben and I, as representatives of the Brisbane International ...

  23. MUA wins another round in Hutchison Ports fight

    Australia Port Botany Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) Hutchison Ports Port of Brisbane DP World Patricks ... Port Botany and Port of Brisbane being reinstated for a further six weeks from August 31. Workers at ... Vodafone offices in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane on August 26. Vodafone is 50% owned by Hutchison. ...

  24. Left poet launches book

    Art & culture Magan-djin/Brisbane Jim Sharp, a well-known veteran of the left and labour ...

  25. Afghan war: Veterans speak out

    Imperialism & war Jim McIlroy War on Afghanistan (2001鈥2021) Magan-djin/Brisbane Veterans ...

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