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Protest and you'll cop it
Brisbane's streets on the first day of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM). In the three ... authorities' strategy in Brisbane is very clearly to make it seem like it will be too dangerous to join the ... that they've long wanted". Intimidation Merran Lawlor is the director of Brisbane ...
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North Queensland's hidden history
Responding to the Brisbane-based Australian Labour Federation's call for a general strike in September ... 1890, the Brisbane Courier ranted: "The ALF has thrown off the mask and boldly raised the flag of ... inception. A nother radical flare-up occurred in Brisbane in 1919. A number of different factors contributed ...
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Write on
123 November 17, 1993 Brisbane police I'm not surprised by the events of November 8 in ... Brisbane. There has since been much discussion regarding the general police attitude to Aboriginal people in ... I've been living in Brisbane for a year now. In fact, living in the heart of a great deal of tension, ...
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Black deaths in custody must stop!
123 November 17, 1993 By John Nebauer BRISBANE — The death in custody of an 18-year-old youth has ... detained by police officers in Bereton Street near Musgrave Park in South Brisbane along with another ... before the police vehicle arrived at the car park of the Brisbane city watch-house. The youth also said ...
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Fairfax marks World Press Freedom Day by sacking 125 staff
Review, Brisbane Times and WA Today will publish fewer state-based stories. Sydney Morning Herald state ...
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The spirit of Eureka and Australia’s working-class struggles
not just a flag for construction workers. It was there when meatworkers in Brisbane picketed in the ...
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Support for marriage equality surges
1156 Brisbane rallies for Yes in September. Photo: Alex Bainbridge News ...
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Pine Gap peace pilgrims receive court summons
Brisbane and Margaret Pestorius and Paul Christie of Cairns are each charged with trespass under the ...
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My fifty years fighting for equal pay
working life as a community sector worker in Brisbane. Although men and women in the community services ... workers. My salary fell by $20,000 when I moved from a job in local government in Sydney to Brisbane. As ...
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Manus Island: ‘A day of horror’
for hours and activists camped overnight outside the department of immigration in Brisbane. The next ...
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We must #StopAdani if we're to save our climate future
being built. We camped just outside Bowen, about 1000 kilometres north of Brisbane, on the Whitsunday ...
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Thousands of unionists rally against government
back any worker targeted by their boss for going on strike today." Melbourne march In Brisbane ... as Queensland Council of Unions, with most speakers opposing the attack on penalty rates. BRisbane ...
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May Day marches around Australia
Sunday, May 5 marches will be held in the following cities. Brisbane 9.30am assemble cnr Wharf and Turbot ... Streets, Brisbane, for 10am march start. 10.30am Family Fun Day at RNA showgrounds. Cairns 9.45am march ...
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Workers affected by floods, cyclone left unprotected
floods, or demanding that they assist with clean-ups without pay. Brown told the Brisbane Times on January ... 25 that employees at a Brisbane childcare centre were stood down without pay as the floodwaters ...
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‘Equal marriage rights now!’
rallied in Brisbane’s Queens Park. Andrew Bartlett, a former Australian Democrats senator and now Greens ... candidate for the federal seat of Brisbane, told the rally: “We all need to stand up for our principles. If ...
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Health workers fight for new agreement
Bill Mason, Brisbane Staff in the Queensland public health system have launched a campaign for ... conditions. According to the September 9 Brisbane Courier Mail, Scott warned that unless the state Labor ...
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SIEV X trial commences
Brisbane Supreme Court on May 18. Daoed faces up to 20 years' jail for his involvement in the ... X survivors have been brought to Brisbane to give evidence. Commonwealth crown prosecutor Glen Rice told the ...
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Postal workers strike for 24 hours
and services branch secretary Len Cooper. Bill Mason reports from Brisbane that postal workers ... a mass meeting at the CEPU offices in south Brisbane. Australia Post angered unionists by bringing in ...
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'Lying rodents' to target Howard's election launch
Marce Cameron, Brisbane An alliance of progressive organisations is planning a peaceful rally and ... the Earth, the Wilderness Society, the Brisbane Anti-Bases Group, Rally for Peace, the Indigenous ...
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'Leave the Iraqis alone!'
Dave Riley, Brisbane Four-hundred anti-war activists — mostly young people — gathered on March 18 ... march through Brisbane streets. From Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly, March 22, 2006. Visit the Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly home ...