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Brisbane rally against testing
Brisbane rally against testing By Debbie Marshall and Nicole Kamp BRISBANE — More than 500 angry ... Democratic Socialist candidate for Brisbane Central, who called for the Keating government to stop exporting ...
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Solidarity actions in Brisbane
Solidarity actions in Brisbane By Jim McIlroy BRISBANE — Support for the Mt Isa workers has ... raised more than $750 in donations to the Mt Isa strike fund through stalls in the Brisbane Mall, and ...
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HEMP week in Brisbane
HEMP week in Brisbane By Brent Wish BRISBANE — Last week at the University of Queensland HEMP ... recreational use of marijuana. John Jiggens and Tony Kneipp, from Brisbane HEMP, outlined the struggle for hemp ...
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Lesbian/gay/queer events in Brisbane in July
By Tom Flanagan Brisbane will be the scene of much discussion and celebration by lesbian, gay, ... of July. The fourth Queer Collaborations conference will be held in Brisbane July 2-9. The annual ... gathering for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students has been timed to link up with Brisbane ...
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Brisbane council helps turn 'trees into money'
BY TIM STEWART BRISBANE — In a last-ditch attempt to save Brisbane's inner-city bushland from ... homes too” dotted the site. The campaign to save “the Gully” began in the 1970s after the Brisbane City ... “consultative” processes through planning and environmental courts and Brisbane City Council. Home to native ...
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Urban renewal in Brisbane: development for whom?
By Dave Riley BRISBANE — There's land for sale at Forest Lake. On the outskirts of ... Brisbane's south-west, you too can settle in "the living forest" and pick up a piece of the ... were approved in the region. In Brisbane alone, there were 9242 — twice that of the preceding year. The ...
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Brisbane faces public transport choices
By Dave Riley BRISBANE — In June 1990 there were 1.3 million people living in the Brisbane region. ... trips each. By the year 2011, it is estimated, the total number of journeys will almost double. Brisbane ... sectors. With the average price of a three-bedroom house in Brisbane currently $123,000 — compared to ...
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Unions show solidarity with Brisbane Children's Hospital staff
and nurses at Lady Cilento Children's Hospital in Brisbane staff on February 12. * * * Unions for ... Children's Hospital in Brisbane in support of 12-month-old Baby Asha. We encourage every unionist to extend ...
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Brisbane coalition calls national day of action
After organising a very successful rally of 5000 people on November 2, the Brisbane Anti-Racist ... coordinator of the Asylum Seekers' Centre, Mercedes Sepulveda; Brisbane Migrant Workers' Centre ...
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Brisbane activists reject attacks on free speech
By Sam Wainwright BRISBANE — On July 28, the Anti-Racist Campaign (ARC) adopted a set of aims and ... supported and calls for an extension of bans on One Nation by the Ipswich and Brisbane councils. On August ...
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45 Brisbane schools walk out against nuclear testing
By Bernard Wunsch BRISBANE — On October 5 students from 45 different schools walked out of class, ... building". In Caloundra 250 students unable to make it into Brisbane walked out of class and attempted to ... Sunny Bank and Pine Rivers travelled into Brisbane to attend. The idea for a rally began at the private ...
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Brisbane's best jazz pianist
By Maurice Sibelle BRISBANE — Jeff Usher is widely regarded as this city's best jazz pianist. ...
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From berets to Balibo: Brisbane's feast of film
Paul Benedek Brisbane International Film Festival 30 July — 09 August Visit ... Afghanistan, some much needed relief is thankfully at hand at the Brisbane International Film Festival (BIFF) ... festival is the official Brisbane premiere of Steven Soderbergh and Benicio Del Toro's four-hour-long ...
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Greening It Up in Brisbane
By Dave Riley BRISBANE — The days when Fortitude Valley was the major local night spot have ... the venue for Brisbane's version of Cultural Dissent: Green It Up. Every Thursday from eight to ... intimate gathering and some of the cheapest drinks in town. The small stage is home to Brisbane's best ...
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Political fundraising gigs ― experiences from Brisbane
Hannah Reardon-Smith The Brisbane branch of the socialist youth group Resistance has linked up ... with Occupy Brisbane and Stop CSG Brisbane to pull off two successful fundraising gigs. Dominic Hale ... Resistance gigs? Hale: Over the past few years, Brisbane has lost a whole heap of its community spaces. We ...
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Brisbane council concealed freeway plan
By Susan Price BRISBANE — The Brisbane City Council has been forced to release plans for a $60 ... and listen very carefully." Willy Bach, convener of the West Brisbane Greens and member of the ... bypass will also run close to the Royal Brisbane Hospital, where wards closest to the freeway are not air ...
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Brisbane International Film Festival
Brisbane International Film Festival By Kerry Vernon The Fourth Brisbane Film Festival, screening ... month is the centenary of the first showing of moving images in Brisbane. That showing used ...
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Protest at Brisbane Women's Prison
Protest at Brisbane Women's Prison By Sylvia Porter BRISBANE — Twenty-five people picketed ... the Brisbane Women's Prison on March 20, protesting against the imprisonment of women for ...
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Brisbane march launches Pride Festival
Brisbane march launches Pride Festival By Nick Everett BRISBANE — Five hundred people participated ... Sydney and Brisbane gay communities. He pointed to the racism he faced as a black gay man in the late ...
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Brisbane rally against woodchipping
Brisbane rally against woodchipping By Kathy Newnam BRISBANE — Around 2500 people attended ... Lee, a Brisbane journalist, called on the rally to be aware of the way in which the environmental ...
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Brisbane Blacks release Invasion Day album for free
Aboriginal rights Survival Day Invasion Day 2014 Mixtape Brisbane Blacks Released January 26, 2014 ... non-profit publication Brisbane Blacks marked the occasion by releasing a free album full of protest songs. ... the word out about how we are treated here in our own country," Brisbane Blacks' Boe Knows ...
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Brisbane artist against war
Merrivale Street, South Brisbane Phone 0417 002 122 "Soft Targets" is an exhibition of recent art ...
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Brisbane protest
Brisbane protest By Kathy Newnam Brisbane — Some 200 people attended a speak-out against ... and Brisbane Rainforest Action Group. A spokesperson for the Wilderness Society talked of the need to ... representative from SANLAKAS in the Philippines. Entertainment was provided by Brisbane musician Phil Monseur, ...
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Brisbane restricts peaceful assemblies
By Maurice Sibelle BRISBANE — On April 27 Brisbane City Council moved to restrict severely ... peaceful assemblies in Brisbane malls. New regulations require organisers of mall protests to give two ... influence over the Brisbane City Council. Hutton called for a community group to have a say over freedom of ...
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Second protest in Brisbane Mall
By Maurice Sibelle BRISBANE — Hundreds of people gathered in the Queen Street Mall on February 12 ... to protest against the Brisbane City Council ban on political activity there. This was the second ... Friday night", claimed Susan Price, Democratic Socialist candidate for the seat of Brisbane in the ...