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1. Foster's workers step up campaign

   Jim McIlroy Magan-djin/Brisbane Workers at the Foster's brewery at Yatala, south of Brisbane ...

2. Chavez widely welcomed on tour of Central America

   Jim McIlroy Magan-djin/Brisbane Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez received widespread popular ... Brisbane, told a meeting on January 28. The meeting was hosted by the Australia-Venezuela Solidarity ...

3. Qld Aboriginal wages stolen again

   Jim McIlroy Magan-djin/Brisbane Members of the Stolen Wages Working Group (SWWG) walked out of ... Indigenous students. SWWG spokesperson and Brisbane elder Aunty Ruth Hegarty said the claimants, whose wages ...

4. Solutions to the global food crisis

   Paul Benedek Magan-djin/Brisbane Resistance activist Naomi Rodgers-Falk and Socialist ... system. [For more information on Brisbane's monthly Socialist Alliance-sponsored discussions — of ...

5. Hundreds protest against Rio Tinto sacking seafarers

   Council of Unions (QCU) Magan-djin/Brisbane More than 400 workers from several unions, notably the CFMEU, ... conditions as their Australian counterparts. The rally began outside Brisbane's Central Station and made ... through Brisbane to Rio Tinto offices. News ...

6. Queensland students can’t afford public transport

   Education Angus McAllen Magan-djin/Brisbane Queensland Transport Minister Scott Emerson’s plans to ... transport in Brisbane rose 7.5% this year, making it the most expensive public transport network in ... Brisbane rose 7.5% this year. News ...

7. Socialists, Greens assess LNP’s Queensland election win

   Elections Jim McIlroy Magan-djin/Brisbane The Queensland ALP “snatched disaster from the jaws of ... decades.” Liam Flenady, Socialist Alliance candidate for South Brisbane in the March 24 state elections, ... Greens candidate for Central Ward in the April 28 Brisbane City Council elections, welcomed “this timely ...

8. Qld unionists should prepare for Newman’s looming attacks, says forum

   Workers & unions Jim McIlroy Magan-djin/Brisbane �鶹��ý Weekly hosted a forum at the ... Brisbane Activist Centre on May 8 called “Challenges facing the Queensland labour movement: Where to now ... a workplace delegate for the Together union in the Brisbane City Council and a state council delegate for the ...

9. Ambushes, arrests in battle for Tara

   Environment Ewan Amyntikos Magan-djin/Brisbane Residents of Queensland’s Western Downs and their ... contents as well as roadworthy inspections. Brisbane’s Westender community magazine reported a statement ... resources.” These latest incidents follow the arrest on March 15 of Brisbane grandmother June Norman who was ...

10. Sam Watson: From the Black Panther Party to the Aboriginal Tent Embassy

    Indigenous Jim McIlroy Magan-djin/Brisbane About 40 people crowded into the Brisbane Activist ... a new, angry, younger generation. “In 1970, the Brisbane chapter of the Black Panther Party of Australia ...

11. Stop the sell-off!

    Dave Riley Magan-djin/Brisbane Queensland has been thrown into a battle with Premier Anna Bligh, ... the sell-off goes ahead. The tour ended in a July 3 Brisbane rally that drew 1500 people. A week ... campaign in Brisbane, the Gold Coast, Maryborough and Cairns. Unlike the ALP, the Socialist Alliance agrees ...

12. Climate change a present threat to Pacific nations

    Stewart Shuker Sue Bolton Magan-djin/Brisbane Speakers from Micronesia, Kiribati, Tuvalu and the ... in Brisbane on July 28 and 170 people in Melbourne on July 30 Climate change has meant tidal surges ... targets, with a minimum 40% cut in CO2 emissions by 2020. In Brisbane, Greenpeace's Trish Harrup said: ...

13. Stolen wages: ‘Continuing the whitewash’

    Workers & unions Indigenous Jim McIlroy Stolen wages Magan-djin/Brisbane “One of the great ... Lecture attracted about 80 people. It was organised by the Brisbane Labour History Association and ... official audits. As a result, the bulk of Aboriginal wages were centralised in Brisbane, used for ...

14. Phil Perrier, 1948-2007

    Magan-djin/Brisbane Queensland Aboriginal activist Phil Perrier died on January 26 after ... Jagara nation tribal land in Brisbane's West End. Addressing the ceremony, Aboriginal activist and ... a trade-union support group meeting in 1985 being held at the Old Trades Hall in Brisbane to support the ...

15. Hutchison assemblies hold the line

    Port of Brisbane enhanced voluntary redundancy process The community assemblies at Port Botany in ... Sydney and Port of Brisbane continue to hold the line as the protracted process towards a settlement of ...

16. River cruise helps fund �鶹��ý

    Jim McIlroy Magan-djin/Brisbane The annual �鶹��ý Weekly Twilight River Cruise set sail ... successfully on the Brisbane River on April 29. More than 60 people came aboard for an evening of sumptuous ...

17. Qld coal expansion threatens Great Barrier Reef

    Environment Coal Climate crisis Jim McIlroy Great Barrier Reef Magan-djin/Brisbane The Great ... to Moreton Bay and other regions north of Brisbane. Environmentalists have called for a review of ...

18. Anti-worker firm attacks veteran unionist

    Workers & unions Economy Mike Crook Strikes and industrial action Magan-djin/Brisbane Unionist ... Carnegie will be held at the Serbian Hall, 243 Vulture St, South Brisbane, on October 27 at 7pm. For more ...

19. Protesters say no to Campbell ‘Nuke-man’

    Mining Environment Liam Flenady Magan-djin/Brisbane More than 50 people came out to Brisbane ...

20. Protests call for end to Aboriginal deaths in custody

    Indigenous Jim McIlroy Magan-djin/Brisbane “Of the 339 recommendations of the royal commission ... Gator issued a call for a further protest in two weeks' time outside the Brisbane police ...

21. Qld conference plans for new Australia

    Socialism Jim McIlroy Magan-djin/Brisbane "Another Australia is Possible" was the main ... theme of the Socialist Alliance Queensland State Conference, held on Saturday April 16 in the Brisbane ...

22. Palestine activist distributes 'Mohammed Brenner chocolates'

    Middle East Jim McIlroy Magan-djin/Brisbane Fay Waddington, a long-time activist in the Palestine ... solidarity movement in Brisbane, held a free give-away of “Mohammed Brenner chocolates” to passersby in ...

23. 'Make the '60s look like a rehearsal'

    Carmel McGlinchey Paul Benedek Magan-djin/Brisbane "We need a genuine people's movement ... address the climate emergency. Local climate group organiser Emma-Kate Rose described how Brisbane ...

24. Human rights at the crossroads

    Charles Jones Magan-djin/Brisbane More than 200 people packed into the Brisbane city hall on June ...

25. Sri Lanka: 'The wrecking of a country'

    Jim McIlroy Magan-djin/Brisbane The modern history of Sri Lanka represents "the wrecking of ... Asia'", Dr Brian Senewiratne told a meeting of the Brisbane city Amnesty International group on July 8. ...

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