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Coal expansion opposed
Environment Coal Climate crisis Jim McIlroy Climate change Magan-djin/Brisbane BRISBANE 鈥 Several ...
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Government targeting its own workers, says union
Economy Jim McIlroy Magan-djin/Brisbane About 6000 Queensland health workers walked off the job ... October 5. Brisbane hospital staff are due to rally and stop work later that week. October 1, 2010 855 ...
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Two hundred rally against nuclear industry
Environment Jim McIlroy Magan-djin/Brisbane "No uranium mining," "No nuclear ... Disarmament, held in Brisbane on Palm Sunday, April 17. The rally and march attracted about 200 people. ...
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Catholic school teachers march
Jim McIlroy Magan-djin/Brisbane Hundreds of striking catholic school teachers marched on March 24 ... across Brisbane, Cairns and Toowoomba were affected by the strike. Some were forced to close, others ...
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Gig raises funds for Palestine
Middle East Jim McIlroy Magan-djin/Brisbane BRISBANE 鈥 "You know that we are rising, our day ...
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SA candidates protest big banks' greed
Elections Jim McIlroy Magan-djin/Brisbane Socialist Alliance candidates for the upcoming ... Queensland state elections, Liam Flenady (South Brisbane), and Mike Crook (Sandgate), organised a rally in ... Brisbane on February 17 to 鈥減rotest the rampant greed of the big banks鈥. Protesters outside the ANZ Bank ...
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Socialist Alliance vote rises in Qld election
Elections Jim McIlroy Magan-djin/Brisbane The Socialist Alliance (SA) pushed ahead with its ... three seats it contested. In South Brisbane, Socialist Alliance candidate Liam Flenady won 1.9% (434 ... a candidate for SA, had received 0.55% (110 votes). At the Brisbane election night party on March 24, SA ...
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Rally calls for peace on Hiroshima Day
Imperialism & war Jim McIlroy Magan-djin/Brisbane The annual Hiroshima Day rally and march, ... commemorating the US atomic bombing of the Japanese city of Hiroshima in 1945, was held in Brisbane on August 6. ... 100 people to Brisbane Square, to hear speakers, and singers, including the Trade Union Choir. Dr Sue ...
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Socialist candidates: 鈥楳ake mining giants pay fair tax鈥
Mining Environment Jim McIlroy Magan-djin/Brisbane BRISBANE 鈥 On June 4, a picket of Rio Tinto ... public purse.鈥 Climate activist Ewan Saunders, also the Socialist Alliance candidate for Brisbane, said: ... Brisbane office. Photo by Jim McIlroy. News ...
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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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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 鈥 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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Protest hits Qld uranium mine plans
Environment Jim McIlroy Magan-djin/Brisbane Protesters erected a giant 鈥渞adioactive barrel鈥 ... state government. The protest, sponsored by Friends of the Earth Brisbane鈥檚 Peace Anti-Nuclear and Clean ... the campaign, visit www.brisbane.foe.org.au. Australia May 16, 2012 923 Anti-uranium mining protesters ...
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鈥榃e want a free and independent Libya鈥
International solidarity Democracy Jim McIlroy Magan-djin/Brisbane About 200 people rallied in ... Brisbane's King George Square on February 25 to show solidarity with the people of Libya resisting the ... through city streets to Brisbane Square, chanting "Out Gaddafi now!" and "Libya, we will ...
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Protest condemns Bahrain invasion
International solidarity Jim McIlroy Magan-djin/Brisbane About 100 protesters gathered in Brisbane ... Bahraini community in Brisbane, welcomed the support from all who attended the rally, and declared that the ...
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Action targets Israel, gas industry
Environment Middle East Jim McIlroy Magan-djin/Brisbane 鈥淣o trade with apartheid Israel鈥 was the ... Brisbane's Sofitel Hotel on May 18. A trade delegation from Israel was hosted at the breakfast, sponsored by ... protest, organised by Justice for Palestine Brisbane, attracted about 20 people who held placards ...
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Builders rally against sham contracts
Workers & unions Jim McIlroy Magan-djin/Brisbane An estimated 3500 building workers walked off ... the job and rallied in Brisbane鈥檚 CBD on May 24 to protest sham contracts being imposed by ... after coming up to Brisbane in a convoy of cars and trucks. Construction unions have shut down the Gold ...
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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.鈥 LGTBI Legal Services president Merran Lawler told the June 14 Brisbane City News the group wanted ...
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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鈥檚 CBD on October 16, as part of a national day of action to 鈥淒efend our ... Brisbane finished the rally by pointing to a green Eureka flag brandished by one demonstrator: 鈥淭he Eureka ...
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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: 鈥淲e must ensure this issue doesn't go ... times.鈥 Ewan Saunders, Socialist Alliance candidate for Brisbane, said: 鈥淭he federal election is a good ...
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MUA鈥檚 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 ...
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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: 鈥淲e need to also remember the families who suffer from ...
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Indigenous activist launches campaign
Aboriginal deaths in custody Magan-djin/Brisbane 鈥淭he 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鈥檚 campaign has been endorsed by the Brisbane Aboriginal ...
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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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Partial native title win on Nth Stradbroke Is.
Indigenous Jim McIlroy Magan-djin/Brisbane Under an agreement endorsed by the federal court, the ... Quandamooka Aboriginal people of North Stradbroke Island, 22 kilometres off the Brisbane coast, have gained ... Bligh said the agreement opens the way for settlements of other native title claims in the Brisbane ...
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Rally says Serco unfit to run detention centres
Refugees & migrants Jim McIlroy Magan-djin/Brisbane A protest for refugee rights outside the ... people attended the protest, which was organised by the Brisbane Refugee Action Collective (RAC). A RAC ... Australia July 29, 2011 889 Refugee rights protest, Brisbane, July 29. Photo: Jim McIlroy. News ...