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  1. Patrick 'to sack all maritime workers'

    sack its entire work force in Brisbane, Sydney and Fremantle. According to Jamie Meek, a former worker ... would operate from berth six at Fisherman Island, Brisbane, within two weeks. He told ABC radio that 70 ... bargaining dispute seems no closer to settlement. In Brisbane, 250 MUA members employed by Patrick began ...

  2. Highways to Hell: motorways are past their use-by date

    include the Outer Sydney Orbital, Melbourne鈥檚 Outer Metropolitan Ring Road and Brisbane鈥檚 Western Orbital ... and Brisbane, if you travel on any major toll road, all the evidence points to a lack of public ... Australia since 1994, bankruptcies have recently hit the Brisbane鈥檚 Clem7 Tunnel and RiverCity Motorway and ...

  3. Why is Australia so slow to get fast trains?

    Brisbane, stopping at some regional centres. Adelaide is sometimes included; Cairns more rarely. Their ... reduce travel times between Sydney and Brisbane or Melbourne to three hours and Sydney to Canberra to one ... hour. Currently, travelling from Sydney to Melbourne or Brisbane by train involves an arduous all-day or ...

  4. 'You can't build anything without enthusiasm'

    combat my shyness. "As a young girl, I went to all the churches in Brisbane trying to find something ... Brisbane's New Theatre, and from there gravitated towards the Communist Party. "When I did classes on ... leaders. The Queensland party secretary at the time, Jack Henry, lived in the inner Brisbane suburb of West ...

  5. Thousands demand: Justice now!

    in police custody in Brisbane on November 7. Yock is the 59th Aboriginal person to have died in ... political demonstration Brisbane in for some years, 6000 people gathered in Musgrave Park, traditional land ... be enough?" The Brisbane march began at 10.50 a.m., with family and friends of Daniel Yock ...

  6. Black deaths in custody must stop!

    By John Nebauer BRISBANE 鈥 Just three days before the release of the Criminal Justice Commission ... Brisbane as soon as I heard the news, and we held an emergency meeting of the board of directors to assess ... community by police. Twenty extra officers were placed on stand-by in Brisbane's Fortitude Valley mall ...

  7. Labor's traditions, 100 years on

    to the leaders of the Trades and Labor Councils in Sydney and Brisbane. In 1891, 36 ... deter the Brisbane TLC from putting up its president for a by-election contest in 1886 and four further ... writer Edward Bellamy, and his first political activity in Brisbane centred on the formation of a Bellamy ...

  8. Write on

    a mathematical formula as simple as I = PAT. Allen Myers Sydney Brisbane IWD In Karen Fredericks and Anne ... Organiser" (for Brisbane). It is misleading because IWD in Brisbane does not have an organiser as such. The ... continue to do so if these problems are sorted out. Kerry Neubauer Brisbane [When I interviewed Susan ...

  9. Doctors: 'Queensland abortion laws belong in the 19th century'

    they're not the only organisation doing that.鈥 The Brisbane Times said on October 26: 鈥淭here are currently ... the state. Children by Choice manager Amanda Bradley told the Brisbane Times: 鈥淲e get reports of ...

  10. Singing through the silence

    Brisbane's Palestinian community and their supporters had turned up in force to St Andrew's Church Hall ... in South Brisbane on April 3 to share food, words and music by Phil Monsour to raise funds for ...

  11. Seeing Red launches along the east coast

    "blasted off" in four east coast cities 鈥 Sydney, Wollongong, Lismore and Brisbane. The upper floor at ... Brisbane that 40 people crowded into the upstairs room of the Broadway Hotel in Woolloongabba on April 30 ...

  12. Hundreds attend Social Forum

    Jim McIlroy & Mike Byrne, Brisbane Prominent Indian anti-neoliberal globalisation campaigner ... theme for the fourth Brisbane Social Forum (BSF), held at the University of Queensland Student Union on ...

  13. Irradiation plant endangers health

    501 July 24, 2002 BY JASON CAHILL & NICOLE HOYE BRISBANE 鈥 In August 1999, the Australian and ... north of Brisbane. The proposed plant will use gamma radiation from cobalt-60, a toxic, radioactive ...

  14. Public health: a small piece of socialism

    521 January 15, 2003 BY JIM MCILROY BRISBANE 鈥 I have recently experienced a serious operation ... investigation to the Prince Charles hospital in the northern suburbs of Brisbane. Following an angiogram, and ...

  15. Socialist Alliance debates ALP and unions

    BY MARCEL CAMERON BRISBANE 鈥 "One hundred years of ALP control of the trade unions is ... enough" 鈥 Community and Public Sector Union delegate Jim McIlroy, who is the Brisbane secretary of the ...

  16. Action updates

    9419 8700. Forum hears Tahiti anti-nuclear activists BRISBANE 鈥 Auxillia Haereraaroa and Leila ... BRISBANE 鈥 "Stop Operation Tandem Thrust. Cancel these war games" was the theme of a rally by 80 ...

  17. Police corruption probe: CJC strikes back

    By Bill Mason BRISBANE 鈥 The Criminal Justice Commission, under serious attack from the Queensland ... bugged conversations involving corrupt police, including video evidence of drug dealings. As Brisbane ...

  18. Supermax prisoners win challenge

    Supermax prisoners win challenge By Karen Fredericks BRISBANE 鈥 The Queensland Supreme Court ruled ... on July 28 that the Maximum Security Unit (MSU) at the Woodford Correctional Centre near Brisbane was ...

  19. Action updates

    BRISBANE 鈥 Five hundred students rallied at the University of Queensland on May 13 in response to police ... BRISBANE 鈥 Teachers have warned of industrial action unless Queensland Teachers Union representatives are ...

  20. 'Oppressor man, your kingdom is falling!'

    Oct 8, Phoenician Club, Broadway. Tweed Heads: Sun Oct 4, Seagulls Leagues Club. Brisbane: Mon Oct 5, ... Brisbane City Hall; Tues Oct 6, St. Paul's Tavern. Perth: Fri Oct 9, Berlin Club; Sat Oct 10, ...

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