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Hundreds attend Social Forum
Jim McIlroy & Mike Byrne, Brisbane Prominent Indian anti-neoliberal globalisation campaigner ... theme for the fourth Brisbane Social Forum (BSF), held at the University of Queensland Student Union on ...
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Irradiation plant endangers health
BY JASON CAHILL & NICOLE HOYE BRISBANE — In August 1999, the Australian and New Zealand Food ... a food irradiation facility is being constructed at Narangba, 60 kilometres north of Brisbane. The ...
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Socialist Alliance debates ALP and unions
BY MARCEL CAMERON BRISBANE — "One hundred years of ALP control of the trade unions is ... enough" — Community and Public Sector Union delegate Jim McIlroy, who is the Brisbane secretary of the ...
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Public health: a small piece of socialism
BY JIM MCILROY BRISBANE — I have recently experienced a serious operation within the public health ... Charles hospital in the northern suburbs of Brisbane. Following an angiogram, and some complications, ...
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Action updates
hears Tahiti anti-nuclear activists BRISBANE — Auxillia Haereraaroa and Leila Tahutini, visiting ... the nearby Polynesian islanders, was exposed. 'Stop Tandem Thrust' rally BRISBANE ...
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Police corruption probe: CJC strikes back
By Bill Mason BRISBANE — The Criminal Justice Commission, under serious attack from the Queensland ... bugged conversations involving corrupt police, including video evidence of drug dealings. As Brisbane ...
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Supermax prisoners win challenge
Supermax prisoners win challenge By Karen Fredericks BRISBANE — The Queensland Supreme Court ruled ... on July 28 that the Maximum Security Unit (MSU) at the Woodford Correctional Centre near Brisbane was ...
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Action updates
Wollongong East Timor campaign, phone (042) 262 010. UQ students rally BRISBANE — Five hundred students ... during the first 16 days of bombing". Fight for say on curriculum BRISBANE — Teachers have warned of ...
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'Oppressor man, your kingdom is falling!'
Oct 8, Phoenician Club, Broadway. Tweed Heads: Sun Oct 4, Seagulls Leagues Club. Brisbane: Mon Oct 5, ... Brisbane City Hall; Tues Oct 6, St. Paul's Tavern. Perth: Fri Oct 9, Berlin Club; Sat Oct 10, ...
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Socialism for the new millennium conferences
conferences, organised by the Democratic Socialist Party and Resistance, were held in Adelaide, Brisbane ... , Hobart, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney over the Anzac Day long weekend. Robyn Marshall reports from Brisbane ... Transport Workers Union; and Jim McIlroy, Brisbane DSP branch secretary and CPSU delegate. The session ...
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Pope protest celebrates civil liberties win
"The pope is wrong — put a condom on". In Brisbane, more than 100 people rallied with ... pope's anti-queer, anti-abortion, anti-condom stance", spokesperson Paul Benedek told the Brisbane ...
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Union rallies say 'Make James Hardie pay!'
and Brisbane on September 15 to demand that the James Hardie company, which dominated the Australian ... corporations in the two countries. Bill Mason reports from Brisbane that about 2000 unionists, mostly ...
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Action updates
Education network formed BRISBANE — On February 24, the Queensland Education Action Network was formed to ... is open on Thursdays 7pm-9pm and Saturdays. Phone (047) 222 214. Multiculturalism BRISBANE ...
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Newbriefs
Court ruling throws Qld ALP into crisis BRISBANE — A by-election for the north Queensland state ... Mundingburra. Actions against Quaid development BRISBANE — Developer George Quaid has recommenced construction ...
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'Democratic Socialism '96' a big success
and Brisbane over the Easter weekend, and in Perth, Darwin and Canberra the following weekend, were ... Brisbane conference. A talk by Peter Boyle, from Links magazine, titled "Socialism — the way ...
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Action updates
Stonewall anniversary BRISBANE — The pinnacle event of the annual Lesbian and Gay Pride Festival, ... refugees BRISBANE — The Anti-Racist Campaign sponsored a speak-out in the Queen Street Mall on June 20 to ...
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Electricity privatisation 'a dismal failure': union report
was instead diverted to areas such as management and marketing, the February 25 Brisbane Times ... Brisbane Times reported. He concluded his report by saying: "Privatising the [Queensland electricity] ...
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The revolution will not be televised!
Brisbane after flying in from London. On April 4 he pleaded guilty in the Brisbane Magistrate's Court ...
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Politicians and parliament: young people want change
1991 through involvement in the environment movement. She is currently the Brisbane Resistance ... organiser and the Democratic Socialist candidate for the seat of Brisbane. Question: Youth unemployment is ...
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An insider's view of the Maritime Union
and an inspector for the International Transport Federation. Bob is well known on the Brisbane left ... the Brisbane branch of the Democratic Socialist Party. Question: The MUA has been under consistent ...
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Highways to Hell: motorways are past their use-by date
include the Outer Sydney Orbital, Melbourne’s Outer Metropolitan Ring Road and Brisbane’s Western Orbital ... and Brisbane, if you travel on any major toll road, all the evidence points to a lack of public ... Australia since 1994, bankruptcies have recently hit the Brisbane’s Clem7 Tunnel and RiverCity Motorway and ...
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Heat, climate and policy failure
of that report are that: Sydney and Brisbane experienced their hottest summer on record; The Northern ...
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Rally against cut to refugee support
Hospital in Brisbane, where doctors and nurses, with the support of refugee activists and unionists, ...
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Refugee rights activism: a student’s story
Mojgan Shamsalipoor and her school, Yeronga State High in Brisbane. Mojgan fled sexual assault and an ...
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Occupy Australia: Thousands turn out across the country
the Occupy Sydney site. In Brisbane, Jim McIlroy reports at least 300 people attended the occupation ... cent!" Further discussions were held to plan the future of the Brisbane occupation. On October 16, Occupy ... Brisbane said an estimated 450 different people passed through Post Office Square over October 15 all up, ...