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'Dear PM Rudd'
Jim McIlroy Magan-djin/Brisbane "In the new year, the progressive community needs to take up ...
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Sixty years of apartheid Israel
Magan-djin/Brisbane "Today Israel celebrates its 60th birthday. Today is anything but ...
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Fighting the twin crises
Bill Mason Magan-djin/Brisbane "The world is facing twin disasters in the near future: the ...
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Another refugee sets fire to herself on Nauru
Processing Centre Australian Border Force (ABF) Brisbane Immigration Transit Accommodation Centre Peter ... circumstances. Hodan, a 19-year-old Somali woman, has been taken to Brisbane by air ambulance, but she suffered ... from the Brisbane Immigration Transit Accommodation Centre on April 27. She was carried bodily out of ...
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SOS conference: camping, climate justice and activism
(NAIDOC) Reclaim Turtle Island Amanda Lickers environmental NGOs Magan-djin/Brisbane A joint review by ... organised by the Australian Student Environment Network (ASEN), took place in Musgrave Park, Brisbane on ... Brisbane, challenging the system, the eco-socialist and feminist Kurdish struggle, climate justice, refugees ...
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G20 comes to town: People's movement responds
Decolonisation and anti-colonialism Magan-djin/Brisbane Brisbane is almost in lockdown as preparations get under ... around the G20 venue in South Brisbane have been sealed as a precaution against sabotage. Car searches ...
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Campaign against Galilee Basin coalmine turns up the heat
Jagalingou Big Four Banks Magan-djin/Brisbane As the Galilee Basin project faces legal challenges by ... Environmental campaigning group 350.org launched 鈥淩aise the Heat鈥 in Brisbane on April 9. Janelle Rees, Galilee ... Adrian Burragubba speaks at an action in Brisbane March 26 against a new coalmine in the Gallilee Basin. ...
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Qld students ready to defend free speech rights on campus
Democracy Education Liam Flenady Magan-djin/Brisbane Police arrested and handcuffed two ... Brisbane-based activists, Rebecca Barrigos and Sid Zaoichi, after they set up a stall and petition against the ... state government鈥檚 budget cuts at a Brisbane university campus on September 21. 麻豆传媒 Weekly 鈥檚 ...
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Sri Lanka: Peace and justice for Tamils needs international action
Margaret Gleeson Magan-djin/Brisbane A packed public meeting at Brisbane's Activist Centre on ... February 6 heard Brian Senewiratne, a Sinhalese consultant physician in Brisbane, deliver a passionate and ...
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Palm Island: Five years of justice denied
Paul Benedek Magan-djin/Brisbane Five years ago, Mulrunji Doomadgee was arrested by senior ... police at the coronial inquest. Brisbane-based Aboriginal activist Sam Watson told 麻豆传媒 Weekly the ... Mulrunji's death. "He should be tried on Palm Island, where the offence occurred, or in Brisbane. He ...
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AMWU speaks out against 457-visa abuses
Andrew Martin Magan-djin/Brisbane Earlier this year, three workers on 457 "guest worker" ... taken to the Federal Magistrates Court in Brisbane by the Workplace Ombudsman on charges of mistreating ... of the Philippines KMU labour federation. He was in Brisbane talking to these Filipino workers and ...
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Rally gives Capalaba Sports Club red card for attack on penalty rates
Magan-djin/Brisbane More than 200 people rallied to support of maintaining penalty rates at Capalaba Sports Club on ...
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Plan to extinguish native title and give freehold to Adani
Adani Galilee Basin Carmichael mining site Coal Magan-djin/Brisbane On November 27 the ABC published ...
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Dulux strikers paint a picture
Workers & unions Murray Taylor Dulux workers Magan-djin/Brisbane A union picket line has been ...
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Sam Watson: 'Confront and challenge Hanson wherever she goes'
Nation (PHON, ONP) Magan-djin/Brisbane Murri leader Sam Watson does not have a high opinion of Pauline ...
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Qld wharfies stand with locked out Canadian workers
International solidarity Workers & unions Tom Mitchell Canada Magan-djin/Brisbane The Maritime ...
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Newman quick to start neoliberal assault on Qld
Elections Jim McIlroy Magan-djin/Brisbane After gaining a huge majority in the Queensland ...
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Qld miners stand firm against BHP鈥檚 attacks
Workers & unions Jim McIlroy Magan-djin/Brisbane Coalmine workers employed by the BHP Billiton ...
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Mining union says BHP should give up mine lease
Coal Climate crisis Environment Jim McIlroy Magan-djin/Brisbane The Construction Forestry Mining ...
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Campbell Newman slashes, burns but fightback looming
Workers & unions Welfare Economy Therese Moore Magan-djin/Brisbane In the lead up to its first ... hand the critical role that my local Neighbourhood Centre at New Farm played during the Brisbane floods ... Brisbane in the past few months and these will build as the date for the state budget draws near. The first ...
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Newman takes Qld back 30 years on uranium mining
Environment Gas Liam Flenady Magan-djin/Brisbane In a startling but not unexpected backflip, ...
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Campbell鈥檚 cuts make for razor-sharp rap
Campbell newman crime Rap music Brisbane Logan Kings Konekted Dontez The Campaign Kings Konekted Class ... The Brisbane b-boys' new EP The Campaign paints a pretty gritty picture of life under ... Brisbane's western suburbs, Kings Konekted are at the sharp end of such policies. On "Repertoire ...
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Insurers cash in on flood disaster
Economy Jim McIlroy Magan-djin/Brisbane Insurance companies are collecting about $300,000 in ...
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Protests called after police 鈥榳hitewash鈥
Indigenous Jim McIlroy Magan-djin/Brisbane Crime and Misconduct Comission (CMC) chair Martin ...
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Aus. gov鈥檛 sends Afghan refugees back to danger
Refugees & migrants Magan-djin/Brisbane The Australian government recently signed a Memorandum ...