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Speak-out against war
Speak-out against war BRISBANE — "Stop the bombing in Kosova!" was the call by the ... Friday, April 9. Brisbane DSP organiser Graham Matthews opened by stating that the demands of the action ... refugees, and for only three months?" Jan MacNicol, long-time Brisbane peace activist, said, ...
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Action updates
marred by violence, but those opposing change are definitely a minority. BRISBANE — Leoncio Sanic Simon, ... Brisbane" read the banner at a picket organised by the Freight Rail Action Group on February 5 at ... push through with the massive upgrading of a freight line to the Port of Brisbane, without proper ...
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DSS hassles Aidex protesters
DSS hassles Aidex protesters By Brendan Greenhill BRISBANE — People who have attended the ... DSS then interviewed them to see if their benefits should be terminated. One Brisbane activist was ... local anti-Aidex group or Queensland Stop Aidex, PO Box 1365, Fortitude Valley, Brisbane 4006, phone ...
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Newman says leave endangered Koalas out on a limb
Environment Jim McIlroy Magan-djin/Brisbane The battle to protect at-risk koalas is stepping up in ... Brisbane's southside. Then state environment minister Molly Robson lost her seat over the issue, after mass ...
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Queensland Court of Appeal rejects challenge to GVK Hancock’s Alpha coalmine
Country GVK Hancock Alpha coalmine Magan-djin/Brisbane In a unanimous decision on September 27, the ...
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Protest against bay dredging
Jim McIlroy Magan-djin/Brisbane On January 8, protesters took to piers around Port Philip Bay as ... Milburn Submissions oppose Traveston Dam Project @9point non = BRISBANE – The great majority of the record ... Kevin Ingersole told the January 15 Brisbane Courier-Mail: "On the science, this project has got no ...
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17-year-olds out of Queensland adult prisons
centres 17-year-olds in adult prisons Youth & students Good news (for a change) Magan-djin/Brisbane ...
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Union and community solidarity deepens for sacked wharfies
Workers & unions Margaret Gleeson Magan-djin/Brisbane The peaceful community assembly at the ... Port of Brisbane. As the dispute over the August 6 midnight sacking of Sydney and Brisbane wharfies ... terminals remain idle. In Brisbane, the Queensland Council of Unions (QCU) has endorsed the action taken by ...
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Qld to sell $15bn of public assets
Dave Riley Magan-djin/Brisbane Citing the dubious need for Queensland to keep its AAA credit ... way upgrades across suburban Brisbane — was in the pipeline long before the world economic crisis and ... Queensland Public Sector Union told the Brisbane Times that the job security of the 25% of state public ...
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Students prepare for the 'big show'
Adam Baker Magan-djin/Brisbane BRISBANE — "On September 11 in Melbourne the big show is ...
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How to get active this week
will speak on SYRIZA and the fight against austerity. Brisbane: Thursday March 26, 6pm Electrical ... Trades Union, 41 Peel St South Brisbane Armidale: Saturday March 28, 6pm. Followed by a Mediterranean ... 1.30pm @ Parliament House Brisbane: 1pm @King George Square Canberra: 1pm @ Garema Place Melbourne: 2pm ...
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Venezuela solidarity consultation
Jim McIlroy BRISBANE — The Brisbane annual consultation of the Australia-Venezuela Solidarity ... Venezuela solidarity rally on November 21 at 4.30pm in Brisbane Square. Plans for 2009 were discussed and ...
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'Get rid of mandatory detention!'
Jim McIlroy BRISBANE — Fifty people gathered in Brisbane Square on April 16 to speak up for ... said, and there was "an overflow to onshore detention centres, including in Brisbane, at ...
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Socialist candidate condemns climate fraudsters
Brisbane Irish Club. This forum was the subject of a protest by climate change activists. Ewan Saunders is ... the Socialist Alliance candidate for Brisbane who helped organise the protest. His speech is reprinted ... Alliance candidate for Brisbane Ewan Saunders. News ...
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Vuvuzela launches Bris BDS campaign
17, 25 members of Justice for Palestine (JFP) Brisbane met in the CBD to launch their boycott, ... many big shopping centres in Brisbane, including the Myer Centre in the Queen Street Mall. The action ... down for the day. For more info on JFP Brisbane or to view a video of the action, visit ...
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Sign up for Sam Watson
Brisbane Central. I/we sign up for Sam Watson because I/we believe that we urgently need a different ... to <brisbane@socialist-alliance.org> or phone Paul 0410 629 088 or Sam on 0401 227 443. For ... further information, visit the campaign blog at <http://www.socialist-alliance.org/brisbane ...
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Venezuela 'a model for the world'
BRISBANE — The radical changes in Venezuela are a "strong example for Latin America, and the ... Iraq". His Brisbane meeting was co-sponsored by Just Peace, Avid Reader Bookshop, the Brisbane Social ...
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Unions protest prep school hours cutback
BRISBANE — On April 4, about 1000 teacher aides and teachers attended protest meetings in Brisbane ... hours to 15 hours a week. At the Brisbane meeting, attended by 300 teachers' aides and 150 ...
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Labour history forum calls for IR protests
BRISBANE — On March 12, 75 people crowded into the Terminus Hotel in South Brisbane to discuss the ... formed Brisbane Labour History Association, the forum was addressed by a number of union officials, ...
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'Radical times' conference slams war plans
BY JIM McILROY BRISBANE — The September 7-8 “Radical Times: Brisbane in the '60s and ... and 1970s], focusing on students at the University of Queensland”. It was organised by the Brisbane ...
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Meeting supports 'Cuba Five'
BY LYNDA HANSEN BRISBANE — Thirty people attended a public meeting on September 12 to mark the ... Rafael Pacheco and Julie Webb-Pullman from the Brisbane Cuba Five Committee presented an update on the ... next Brisbane Free the Five Committee meeting will be held at 6pm on September 25 in the Resistance ...
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Get Active! Stop Jabiluka! Stop uranium mining!
campaign. Get involved! Upcoming rallies: Brisbane: Sunday March 28. Rally 11am, King George Square. ... a Nuclear Free Future (ENUFF) in your area: Adelaide JAG 8232 0736 Brisbane JAG 3846 5793 Brisbane JAG 3846 ...
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An election budget in Queensland
An election budget in Queensland By Bill Mason BRISBANE — “Queensland treasurer Joan ... Brisbane Central, and Coral Wynter, standing in South Brisbane, slammed the Coalition government for giving ...
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Soorley warns: ALP 'could implode'
Soorley warns: ALP 'could implode' By Bill Mason BRISBANE — Brisbane Lord Mayor Jim ... and the party will, in fact, implode." The publication of Soorley's letter in the Brisbane ...
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Queensland ALP in disarray
Queensland ALP in disarray By Bill Mason BRISBANE — The war of words continues in the ALP in the ... aftermath of the state election debacle. On August 4, Brisbane Lord Mayor Jim Soorley called on Queensland ... Brisbane branch has attacked party president Bob Gibbs, leader of the Left faction, a split-off from the ...