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Anti-abortionists call for clinic's closure
Anti-abortionists call for clinic's closure By Bill Mason BRISBANE — Anti-abortion group ... parliament on October 26, Dr Grundmann stated that his Brisbane clinic carried out abortions at more than 20 ...
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Nurses stop work over staffing crisis
Nurses stop work over staffing crisis By Bill Mason BRISBANE — Nurses and other health workers at ... interpretation". A leading doctor at one Brisbane public hospital told Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly, "The whole health ...
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Action updates
BRISBANE — A mass meeting called by the Communications Workers Union on September 7 endorsed ... Australia Post, ANL and Brisbane airports. The meeting also voted to support any action taking place in ...
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Retro pop out of control
Retro pop out of control By Bernard Wunsch The Gilberts, a five-piece Brisbane pop band, have just ... started out at the University of Queensland a few years ago and moved onto the Brisbane stage with ...
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Toxic vapors threat
Toxic vapors threat By Paul Jones BRISBANE — Despite a legally binding notice of improvement being ... served on the Royal Brisbane Hospital (RBH) by the division of workplace health and safety, the spills of ...
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Festival of the oppressed
17-19 in Brisbane, the oppressed staged their own folk festival to celebrate the winter solstice. ... It Up in Brisbane, can provide the basis of a network of progressive artists and musicians. So if ...
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Tensions grow in Mt Isa
Tensions grow in Mt Isa By Bill Mason BRISBANE — Tensions are growing in Mt Isa once more as ... family airfares to Brisbane may have been left out of the negotiations by the ACTU. ACTU president Martin ...
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Candidate urges support for Mt Isa
Candidate urges support for Mt Isa By Jim McIlroy BRISBANE — Zanny Begg, the Democratic Socialist ... candidate for the seat of Brisbane Central in the upcoming state elections, has urged continuing solidarity ...
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Mt Isa workers move to cut mine power
By Bill Mason BRISBANE — Workers at Mount Isa Mines struck for 24 hours on April 24 in ... it", he said. ACTU state leaders in Brisbane were reported to have rejected plans by local union ...
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Green It Up features Pinkenba case
Green It Up features Pinkenba case By Bill Mason BRISBANE — Green It Up, a weekly musical night at ... Pinkenba, near the mouth of the Brisbane River. Despite confessions by the police involved, none were tried ...
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Support for Steel-Line Doors strikers
Support for Steel-Line Doors strikers By Bill Mason BRISBANE — Some 200 people attended ... accompanied by a $100 cheque, was read out from the Vietnamese community of Brisbane. Greetings were also ...
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Russian Easter
Socialism" conferences in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Perth over the Easter weekend. As well as speaking ... speech of the evening. In Brisbane on the Saturday, Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly editor Allen Myers will speak, ...
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News briefs
BRISBANE — The Council for Civil Liberties has condemned state attorney-general Dean Wells' ... by judge and jury and appeals by the attorney-general. BRISBANE — Garbage collectors would ...
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Sunshine Coast students walk out
Sunshine Coast students walk out By Bill Mason BRISBANE — Students at Nambour High School in the ... to go to the "high school of her choice". Brisbane Resistance organiser Zanny Begg ...
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Building workers strike over pay claim
Building workers strike over pay claim By John Nebauer BRISBANE — More than 3000 CFMEU and BLF ... members voted to strike at a mass meeting in Brisbane on February 22. The strike, which is scheduled to ...
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News briefs
BRISBANE — Queensland Council for Civil Liberties vice-president Terry O'Gorman has blasted ... phone-tap power and was rapidly becoming a super police force and "a law unto itself". BRISBANE ...
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Actions to save forests
on February 18, in Sydney on February 19 in Brisbane on February 23 and in Canberra on February 26. ... Democratic Socialist Party and Resistance are organising a public meeting on February 15 and in Brisbane ...
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A blend of echoes
This is a new CD from BEMAC, Brisbane's ethnic music centre, the result of a residency and ... Under the Bridge, refers to the Storey Bridge, a landmark of Brisbane, under which BEMAC holds its ...
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Opposition over tollway, tree-clearing grows
Opposition over tollway, tree-clearing grows By Bill Mason BRISBANE — The state government's ... losing four seats in the Brisbane-Gold Coast tollway belt in last month's election. Elder, who had ...
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Powerful people's opera
Powerful people's opera Little City By Irine Vela Presented by Brisbane Ethnic Music and Arts ... Centre Inc. Until May 11 Culturebank, West End, Brisbane Review by Lynda Hansen This is a story about ...
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News briefs
investigation; 327 were either informally resolved or a settlement was reached. BRISBANE — Queensland head of the ... Johnston was replaced immediately as head of the Brisbane office. Community and Public Sector Union ...
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Abseilers attack government light bill
Abseilers attack government light bill By Bill Mason BRISBANE — Environmentalists staged a novel ... buildings brightly lit late into the night in Brisbane city are the Executive Building and the Parliamentary ...
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Tully hydro project unnecessary
Tully hydro project unnecessary By Bill Mason BRISBANE — The proposed Tully-Millstream ... government, obtained by the Brisbane Courier-Mail, the Australian Heritage Commission said that Queensland had ...
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Harsh US jail conditions for peace activists
Harsh US jail conditions for peace activists By Bill Mason BRISBANE — Australian peace activists ... Her mother, Pearl Cavander-Cole, told the Brisbane Courier-Mail that the Australian Foreign Affairs ...
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Brewer condemned for 'handouts' claim
Brewer condemned for 'handouts' claim By Bill Mason BRISBANE — Powers Brewery head ... binge drinking in far north Aboriginal communities by sending Power Brewing-sponsored Brisbane Broncos ...