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Prison camps for homeless?
Prison camps for homeless? By Bill Mason BRISBANE — Queensland's 1000 "feral street ... Brisbane organiser Sean Healy slammed the Hamburger plan as "police-state tactics", and "yet ...
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Rochedale dump 'legal'
Rochedale dump 'legal' By Bill Mason BRISBANE — "We will never give up trying to ... that construction of the controversial waste dump in their southern Brisbane suburb was lawful on its ...
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Sustainability conference planned
Sustainability conference planned By Jo Ferreira BRISBANE — A conference on ecological ... Professor Ian Lowe, state environment minister Pat Comben and Brisbane mayor Jim Soorley. Panel sessions ...
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Successful start to ecosocialist tour
2 May, Box Factory Community Centre Hobart- 6:30pm, Wed 4 May, Hobart Activist Centre Brisbane- 6:30pm, ... Fri 6 May, Brisbane Activist Centre Cairns- 6pm, Sat 7 May, German Club Parramatta- 6pm, Tues 10 May, ...
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Protests, vigils for refugee rights across country
action also took place in Brisbane on February 19 to condemn the government after the violence on Manus ... February 22. Photo via Stephanie King. Brisbane, February 19. Photo by Liam Flenady. February 22, 2014 998 ...
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Flood victims condemn insurance companies
people in Ipswich on April 5, victims of the Brisbane floods of early January shouted, sobbed and pleaded ... weeks after the floods that devastated big areas of Ipswich and Brisbane. Shorten had invited RACQ, ...
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Occupy Cairns plans for the future
Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly held a public forum at Occupy on November 10. Brisbane-based Socialist Alliance ... Occupy Brisbane camp into an organised tent city, now re-established in Musgrave Park, where it has been ...
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Health workers strike for fair wages
Hospitality and Miscellaneous Union (LHMU). Their action builds on bans implemented in Brisbane hospitals. The ... Brisbane, Cairns, Rockhampton, Mackay and Townsville for a fair wage rise for the state public sector. ...
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Afghan feminist calls for foreign troops to leave
legitimises rape in marriage", she said. Shazia visited Brisbane as part of a nationwide tour organised ... Queensland, Griffith University and elsewhere in Brisbane. The government of Afghanistan is "filled with ...
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News briefs #1
discusses democracy BRISBANE — The third annual Brisbane Social Forum was held on May 7-9 at the University ...
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News briefs 2
<http://www.pandanusbooks.com.au/>.] Norman Brewer @PARAFILTR ON = New Farm residents oppose convention centre BRISBANE — An angry ... The proposed convention centre, which would be jointly operated by the Brisbane City Council (BCC) and ...
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Women reclaim the night
year, marches were held in Albury-Wodonga, Bendigo, Bowen, Brisbane, Bundaberg, Cairns, Canberra, ... workshops were held in many other cities and towns. The largest march was in Brisbane, where 4000 turned out ...
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News briefs #1
#1 Timor benefit concert BRISBANE — Several hundred people crowded into the No 12 Lounge Bar in ... Australia. Bill Mason 'Crackerjack' bowls club wins BRISBANE — In a story reminiscent of the film ...
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Activist forum hears socialist historian
BRISBANE — "While we're fighting the IR laws, socialists need to never lose sight of the ... told a public forum held at the Brisbane Activist Centre on August 2. "Socialism needs a moral ...
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US activist: Bush's 'deficits' in Iraq
BRISBANE — The US government faces "deficits" on a number of fronts in its occupation of ... 27. The forum was sponsored by the Brisbane Social Forum and Just Peace Queensland. Bennis said that ...
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Union activists organise
Susan on 0400 320 602. In Brisbane, the Defend Our Unions Committee distributed a call to the June 30 ... Street, South Brisbane. From Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly, July 6, 2005. Visit the Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly home page. July ...
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Maori Party leaders meet Murri community
branches of the party formed by Maori migrants in Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney, as well as Murri ... community activists. The Maori Party claims about 350 members in Australia. At a June 3 meeting in Brisbane ...
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Action updates
Plaza in Civic. Speak-out opposes war BRISBANE — Around 100 people rallied on the steps of King George ... for Oil! The speak-out was one of a series of actions being organised by the Brisbane Stop the War ...
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Hundreds join Hiroshima Day rallies
the same day, 300 rallied in Brisbane's King George Square. The rally was addressed by speakers ... Steritech, a company that is building a food irradiation plant at Narangba, north of Brisbane. In Melbourne, ...
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Protesters oppose irradiation plant
BY LEONIE EASTMENT BRISBANE — Since June 13, protesters have maintained a 24-hour protest camp ... 29 was attended by at least 100 cyclists, who rode from Brisbane CBD to the site. On July 8, seven ...
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2000 attend solidarity concert for West Papua
<http://www.morningstarconcert.com/> for pictures and video of the concert. A Morning Star Concert will also be held at the Brisbane ... Social Forum, March 21-23, at the Brisbane Powerhouse, <http://www.brisbanesocialforum.org/>.] From ...
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Narangba protest camp fights eviction threat
BY BILL MASON BRISBANE — The Queensland Labor government's department of state development ... of Brisbane — by January 20, but police have not acted on the order. “We are calling on people to ...
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After M1: See you at CHOGM!
argue for the next national convergence of the movement to be in Brisbane in early October when the ... this view. New WTO round A Brisbane convergence would need to focus on several important issues. Coming ... World debt during CHOGM. It is planning to bus activists to Brisbane and has sought union assistance. ...
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Palm Sunday protests against Jabiluka
feature speaker will be anti-nuclear campaigner Dr Helen Caldicott. In Brisbane, JAG is planning a rally ... help build the Palm Sunday action, phone: Adelaide JAG on 8232 0736; Brisbane JAG on 3846 5793 or 3846 ...
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M1 meetings
Uni (Nth Tce). Ph 8231 6982. Brisbane: May 1 Alliance meeting. Wed Feb 14, 6pm. TLC Bldg, 16 Peel St, ... Sth Brisbane. Ph 3831 2644. Canberra: Canberra M1 Alliance anti-corporate teach-in. Sat March 3. Time ...