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1. A million miles from commerce

   A million miles from commerce A million miles from commerce By Monesque BRISBANE — From out of the ... bush, or probably more accurately, out from the alternative set of Brisbane and neighbouring regions ... I first heard them at Brisbane's newest alternative market in the Valley, where buskers are actually ...

2. Action against dumps

   Action against dumps By Mark Cronin BRISBANE — The Southside Action Group, formed to fight the ... be strengthened by this show of solidarity. The Southside Action Group is still fighting the Brisbane ... Brisbane City Council election, and despite Labor Lord Mayor Jim Soorley's back-down on the issue ...

3. Queensland health services face cuts

   Queensland health services face cuts By Bill Mason BRISBANE — Queensland public hospital services ... workers will face the sack as hospitals move to reduce costs. Royal Brisbane Hospital chief executive ... by attrition." In addition, mental hospitals in Brisbane face a funding crisis and severe ...

4. Qld Nationals slammed for racism

   Qld Nationals slammed for racism By Bill Mason BRISBANE — Recent remarks of Queensland National ... Brisbane Lord Mayor Jim Soorley advocated the leasing to Aborigines of about 10 ha of sacred land known as ... January 30. Brisbane Aboriginal elder Bob Weatherall said Littleproud and Lester had to go. "They ...

5. Boycott Mitsubishi campaign

   Boycott Mitsubishi campaign By Paul Woods BRISBANE — The Boycott Mitsubishi Campaign to save the ... overpasses of Brisbane's major freeway in peak hour traffic. At 12 noon the same day a protest was held ... Information Centre in Lismore, Brent Hoare and Yonatan, were in Brisbane on September 9 and held film ...

6. Qld high school students walk out over education cuts

   Qld high school students walk out over education cuts By Bill Mason BRISBANE — High school ... education funding in recent weeks. Following the successful rally in Brisbane on August 13, students at ... to attend the Brisbane rally. In the face of widespread student, parent and teacher anger, Education ...

7. Qld farmers confront the banks

   Qld farmers confront the banks By Bill Mason BRISBANE — Central Queensland farmers George and ... to prison in Brisbane, Muirhead said the banking industry and judicial system were "making him ... Supporters of the Muirheads picketed the Supreme Court in Brisbane on June 15 to demand an end to evictions. ...

8. Move-on powers a 'police state tactic'

   By Bill Mason BRISBANE — New powers to allow police and security guards to forcibly move on ... "trouble-makers" at Brisbane South Bank were a return to the "police state tactics of the Bjelke-Petersen ... the March 26 Brisbane City Council elections and campaigned on the issue of police harassment of ...

9. 'Socialism alive and well'

   'Socialism alive and well' By Bill Mason BRISBANE — "The success of the Democratic ... Socialist campaign in the recent Brisbane City Council elections shows there is significant support for ... the Port of Brisbane freight line on environmental grounds, received 3.8%. "While the two-party ...

10. Cooper slammed on 'dole threat'

    Cooper slammed on 'dole threat' By Bill Mason BRISBANE — In a joint statement, ... Democratic Socialist candidates for the March 26 Brisbane City Council election Ana Kailis and Susan Price ... street brawls in Brisbane and Mareeba, involving mainly Aboriginal youth. Cooper said on March 11 that, ...

11. Greens launch campaign for Central

    Greens launch campaign for Central By Maurice Sibelle BRISBANE — Fifty people attended the ... February 22 launch of the Greens campaign for the Brisbane City Council elections seat of Central. The ... campaign which contested the Brisbane City Council elections. Speakers at the launch included Jill Jordan, ...

12. Qld hospitals in turmoil over staffing

    By Paul Burns BRISBANE — Queensland hospitals are in a state of turmoil, with the state government ... refusing to release funds to alleviate chronic under-staffing. Nurses at the Royal Brisbane Hospital are ... hospitals, at a local level only. Beth Mihle, nurses' union organiser for Brisbane North region, said, ...

13. Women push the boundaries

    Women push the boundaries By Anthony Brown BRISBANE — Fed up with the way mainstream media portray ... Brisbane community television station, Briz-31. The women involved currently have several short ... writing to PO Box 3269, South Brisbane, Qld, 4101. July 27, 1994 152 Culture ...

14. First woman arrested under Qld 'anti-bikie laws'

    Democracy bikie laws Magan-djin/Brisbane A 40-year-old library assistant, Sally Kuether, was ... met her partner Phillip Palmer and friend Ronald Germain at the Dayboro Hotel, north-west of Brisbane ... “disturbed by the reports [of corruption]” but “not surprised”, the Brisbane Times said on January 28. “This ...

15. Qld gov't abolishes ceremonies for same-sex civil unions

    LGBTIQ Jim McIlroy Magan-djin/Brisbane Queensland Premier Campbell Newman said on June 12 that the ... partnerships.” LGTBI Legal Services president Merran Lawler told the June 14 Brisbane City News the group wanted ...

16. Adani’s sinister accomplice

    �鶹��ý. Australia August 2, 2019 1231 A protest against GDH in Brisbane on August 1. Photo: Alex ...

17. Qld: Hundreds rally to defend water from CSG

    Mining Coal Climate crisis Environment Jim McIlroy Magan-djin/Brisbane More than 600 people ... rallied and marched in Brisbane’s CBD on October 16, as part of a national day of action to “Defend our ... Brisbane finished the rally by pointing to a green Eureka flag brandished by one demonstrator: “The Eureka ...

18. Rally protests Black deaths in custody

    Magan-djin/Brisbane Sam Watson, Aboriginal community leader and Socialist Alliance senate candidate for Queensland, ... candidate for the federal seat of Brisbane Andrew Bartlett said: “We must ensure this issue doesn't go ... times.” Ewan Saunders, Socialist Alliance candidate for Brisbane, said: “The federal election is a good ...

19. Protests will mark Mulrunji anniversary

    Paul Benedek Magan-djin/Brisbane November 18 will be the second anniversary of the police killing ... community and their supporters will rally in Brisbane to demand an end to Aboriginal deaths in custody. ... against Aboriginal people, yet virtually no police have been brought to justice", Brisbane rally ...

20. Occupy for a world ‘full of the power of love’

    Economy Magan-djin/Brisbane Veteran Brisbane activist Gary McLennan spoke at an Occupy Brisbane ... that I’ve been asked twice to speak to the Occupy Brisbane movement. I said when I first spoke to you ... Brisbane, politicians and the media dare to make fun of you. They have destroyed the world. They have ruined ...

21. MUA’s battle for jobs intensifies at Hutchison Ports

    Fishermen's Wharf Port of Brisbane The battle continues at Hutchison Ports terminals in Sydney and Brisbane ... and supporters at Port Botany and the Port of Brisbane have continued for more than two weeks. The ... Fishermen's Wharf in Brisbane are being maintained, work has started and container trucks are permitted to ...

22. Iranian asylum seeker brain dead on transfer to Australia

    centres Hamid Khazaei Brisbane’s Mater Hospital coroner's inquest Magan-djin/Brisbane By the time ... confirmed dead on arrival at Brisbane’s Mater Hospital. Kehazaei was transferred from Christmas Island to in ... transferred to Mater Hospital in Brisbane and was confirmed brain dead on September 2. Life support was ...

23. Builders rally for job safety

    Workers & unions Jim McIlroy Magan-djin/Brisbane More than 1000 building unionists rallied in ... Adelaide. Organised by the building unions and the Queensland Council of Unions, the Brisbane action was ... Fitzpatrick from the south Brisbane community said: “We need to also remember the families who suffer from ...

24. Indigenous activist launches campaign

    Aboriginal deaths in custody Magan-djin/Brisbane “The major parties, Labor and Liberal, have failed to ... were Ewan Saunders, SA candidate for the seat of Brisbane, and Hamish Chitts, Revolutionary Socialist ... Party candidate for the seat of Griffith. Watson’s campaign has been endorsed by the Brisbane Aboriginal ...

25. Protest denounces forced deportations

    Refugees & migrants Jim McIlroy Magan-djin/Brisbane The question of refugees "is as ... a rally of around 100 in Brisbane on April 9. The rally was organised by the Refugee Action Collective ... Brisbane on April 9. Photo: Freddie Steen News ...

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