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Qld government plans big job cuts
Workers & unions Magan-djin/Brisbane Queensland public service union Together has called ... 28 South Brisbane by-election, said: 鈥淧remier Campbell Newman's public service job cuts are ...
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Murri-led protest says: 鈥楽top more stolen generations鈥
Indigenous Jim McIlroy Sam Bullock Magan-djin/Brisbane 鈥淪top more Stolen Generations, take back ... control of our lives鈥 was the main theme of a rally and march held in Brisbane on May 2. About 50 Murris ...
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Court protest supports Aboriginal Embassy arrestees
Indigenous Jim McIlroy Magan-djin/Brisbane 鈥淲e are gathered here to support the 33 people who were ... 925 Murri community leader Sam Watson outside the Brisbane Magistrate's Court, May 31. Photo: Jim ...
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Policyholders consider legal action against insurers
Economy Jim McIlroy Magan-djin/Brisbane Householders and small businesses who were victims of the ... floods that hit Brisbane in January are considering a legal challenge against insurance companies 鈥渦sing ...
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No charges for killer cops
Indigenous Jim McIlroy Magan-djin/Brisbane "There are two systems of justice in Queensland: ... community leader, told a rally outside State Parliament in Brisbane on March 23. More than 50 people ...
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Forum discusses media monopoly, WikiLeaks & freedom
Media Jim McIlroy Magan-djin/Brisbane The dilemma facing journalists in Australia today was ... a public forum sponsored by 麻豆传媒 Weekly at the Brisbane Activist Centre on August 9. The forum, ...
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Exhibition marks SIEV-X tragedy, ten years on
Refugees & migrants Jim McIlroy Magan-djin/Brisbane A powerful art exhibition took place in ... Brisbane over October 15-23, commemorating the 10th anniversary of the SIEV-X tragedy on October 19, 2001, ...
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Socialist candidate supports mineworkers
Workers & unions Elections Magan-djin/Brisbane Mike Crook, Socialist Alliance candidate for ... campaign, phone 07 3831 2644/0423 741 734 or visit the Socialist Alliance Brisbane website.] Australia ...
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Keep Australia nuclear free!
Jim McIlroy Magan-djin/Brisbane "If only 0.3% of the world's current nuclear armaments ... Hanson, senior lecturer in international relations at the University of Queensland, told the Brisbane ...
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ETU takes on anti-union company
Paul Benedek Magan-djin/Brisbane The Electrical Trades Union (ETU) is locked in dispute with rogue ... was again voted down." Fiteni explained that John Goss has work on various sites in Brisbane ...
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Eyewitness report of Venezuela's revolution
Magan-djin/Brisbane Socialist Alliance member and Latin American solidarity activist Jim McIlroy ... addressed a forum organised by the Australia Venezuela Solidarity Network (AVSN) at the Brisbane Activist ...
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ETU leader: 'Put unions before the ALP'
Paul Benedek Magan-djin/Brisbane Premier Anna Bligh's push to privatise Queensland's ... Brisbane Activist Centre. See calendar on page 23 for details]. Australia June 13, 2009 798 News ...
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Community rallies against "thief Bligh"
Paul Benedek Magan-djin/Brisbane Chanting "stop Bligh, stop thief 鈥 she'd even sell her ... Paul King, a member of the South Brisbane branch of the ALP, which voted for Bligh's explusion ...
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Venezuelans speak on people's power
Jim McIlroy Marcela Escauriaza Magan-djin/Brisbane The "people's power speaking ... communal councils have formed. In Brisbane's Queensland Council of Unions auditorium, 40 people joined ...
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Pro-choice campaigners target premier's events
Anna McCormack Magan-djin/Brisbane Women and men have been picketing events at which Queensland ... there. Pickets have taken place at inner-Brisbane events 鈥 a book launch on November 6 and a community ...
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Black deaths in custody a 'national disgrace and a tragedy'
Jim McIlroy Magan-djin/Brisbane "The Aboriginal community is moving to call for a national ... Correctional Centre in Brisbane on February 20. Further controversy has erupted in Queensland recently with the ...
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Qld gov鈥檛 soft on sand thief
Economy Environment Mining Jim McIlroy Magan-djin/Brisbane Environmentalists are calling for the ... state government to cancel a mining lease on North Stradbroke Island, off the coast of Brisbane. Huge ...
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Beattie's setback caused by health crisis
Jim McIlroy Magan-djin/Brisbane The Queensland Labor government has suffered its first major ... 20, the ALP lost two "safe" seats in the Brisbane region, Chatsworth and Redcliffe, with ...
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Staff, students oppose humanities school closure
Jon Piccini Teena Branford Magan-djin/Brisbane On May 10, 60 people attended a public meeting ... Brisbane's Courier Mail that many staff and students at QUT found out that the school of humanities will be ...
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Court allows Palm Islander to withdraw plea
Hamish Chitts Magan-djin/Brisbane In a Brisbane court on May 25, Palm Island resident Lex Wotton ...
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'War games a threat to the region'
Paul Benedek Magan-djin/Brisbane Jim McIlroy, the Socialist Alliance candidate for the Brisbane ...
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Fosters workers want a union agreement
Jim McIlroy Magan-djin/Brisbane Around 50 workers from the Fosters brewery at Yatala, south of ... Brisbane, and their supporters rallied outside the Carlton United Brewery (CUB) head office in Fortitude ...
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'Restore Haneef's work visa now!'
Paul Benedek Magan-djin/Brisbane The federal government should restore Indian doctor Mohamed ... Socialist Alliance candidate for the south Brisbane seat of Griffith, told Green left Weekly. Griffith is ...
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Print workers go on strike
Andrew Martin Magan-djin/Brisbane On September 19, 100 print and maintenance workers at printing ... company PMP's Wacol site south-west of Brisbane took protected industrial action for 48 hours in ...
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Foster's workers continue campaign for union rights
Jim McIlroy Magan-djin/Brisbane Brewery workers at the Foster's Yatala plant, near Beenleigh ... south of Brisbane, are continuing their campaign for a union collective agreement. The workers 鈥 members ...