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Thousands attend refugee meetings
advocates received when, in the course of three days, 3600 people in Brisbane, Melbourne and Perth attended ... Sharan Burrow. The May 21 public meeting in Brisbane, organised by the Refugee Action Collective, was ... detention centre at Pinkenba, near Brisbane's airport, even before it is built. Another 800 people ...
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Anti-war activist notebook
Week?" Anti-war campaign boosted BY BILL MASON BRISBANE — The anti-war movement received a massive boost ... from the historic march of 100,000 people through Brisbane on February 16. Action against the war is ... Resistance. The rally will commence at the West End Community Park, Boundary Street. Peace embassy BRISBANE ...
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Write on: letters to the editor
Green Alliance for the 1991 Brisbane City Council elections. So what's missing? If electoral ... alliance politics can work so well in Scotland during the 1990s, in London now and in Brisbane in 1991 ... surely a message there. Dave Riley Brisbane Labor on super Simon Crean (Press Club speech, May 17) has ...
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Seven reasons to protest at CBF/CHOGM
take to the streets of Brisbane and Melbourne: in Brisbane, on October 6, they will protest the opening ... committed to, and that's what we'll be putting forward on the streets of Melbourne and Brisbane. ...
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'A different world is possible'
Government Meeting in Brisbane. "These major protests will further the fight against the World Trade ... plan how we can actively support struggles for justice right around the world." In Brisbane ... protests against the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting. Brisbane Resistance co-organiser and ...
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Members First result shows desire for an alternative
and won around a third of the vote, despite its low-budget, campaign. McIlroy, a Brisbane Centrelink ... First mailed out its main campaign leaflet to about 90% of the members. In Brisbane, Members First led ... the public sector workers." [For details on the June 8 Telstra rally in Brisbane, phone (07) 3831 ...
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Resistance sets sights on CHOGM protests
have for socialists. On May 26 in Brisbane, the city that will host the Commonwealth Heads of ... Austin, an organiser for Resistance, told Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly. "Brisbane activists will be central to ... blockades. The next focus for the movement is going to be CHOGM in Brisbane and Melbourne — and we're ...
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NOWSA: a herstory
in Brisbane. Attended by more than 250 women, it featured major political forums on the graduate tax, ... 300 women. The issue of racism assumed prominence in Brisbane and has been an important discussion at ... 1995), "Looking in, speaking out" (Brisbane, 1997) and "That was then, this is NOWSA: ...
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Action updates
killing!' BRISBANE — "Stop the killing, stop the lies — free East Timor now!" was the call of ... Brisbane East Timor Action Coalition added that solidarity with the East Timorese is needed now more than ... Jabiluka vigil BRISBANE — Around 100 people attended a candlelight vigil against the Jabiluka uranium mine ...
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Maleny Festival at Woodford
republic, Aborigines and the constitution and a bill of rights. Annie Deller, Brisbane organiser of the ... Queensland Folk Federation, produced the Women in Voice show, which has played to packed houses in Brisbane ... pushing their politics. Local Brisbane musicians included Chris Anderson, Cigano, Sister Moon Ensemble, ...
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'Fighting racism is not a spectator sport'
involved in the campaign against racism: CONRAD BARRETT from Brisbane, WENDY ROBERTSON from Sydney and ARUN ... a coalition set up in Brisbane that includes different migrant communities, Murri groups, refugee groups and ... trade unions and political parties. The group organised a rally of 5000 people in Brisbane. The rally ...
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Democratic Socialists: 'building a people's movement for change'
By Bill Mason BRISBANE — "There is no way to achieve social justice and ecological ... Wynter, together with Zanny Begg, the socialist candidate for the seat of Brisbane in the March ... American solidarity movement. Begg, 23, is the Brisbane organiser of Resistance, and a leader of last ...
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Lack of information a trap for Filipina women
often not aware of their rights, according to a Brisbane social worker who works with migrant women. ... Australian husbands or fathers. The acting coordinator of Brisbane's Migrant Women Emergency Support ... been implemented. "The South Brisbane Immigration Legal Service, the Bureau of Ethnic Affairs and ...
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Goss pushes tollway despite opposition
186 May 10, 1995 By Dave Riley BRISBANE — Despite the biggest anti-government rallies since Labor ... road, rather than rely on upgrading the existing Pacific Highway linking Brisbane with the Gold Coast, ... administration has not baulked at any of the problems involved. Brisbane car owners are to get their new road to ...
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PSU confronts government on pay, staffing
mobilised many old and new activists to help hand out the alternative resolution. Brisbane Richard Wilson ... reports that the main Brisbane meeting ended in confusion as officials hurried to close off dissent over ... "the Brisbane meeting was conducted in an undemocratic way and the vote count was not conducted ...
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Tooheys workers fight redundancy
Castlemaine Perkins brewery in Brisbane, a Grafton brewery and a recent takeover of a brewery in Adelaide). ... Perth's Swan brewery, then at XXXX Castlemaine Perkins brewery in Brisbane, where 300 workers were sacked, ... crack, and were left to last, while the company encircled them with the easier slaughters. The Brisbane ...
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Women inspired by NOWSA conference
By Freya Pinney and Joy McEntee BRISBANE — Organisers of this year's Network of Women ... Students Australia (NOWSA) conference in Brisbane expected 250 women, but 500 arrived — double the number ... previous experiences of the movement. The conjunction of NOWSA with Brisbane's Pride Festival ...
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Queensland — state of poverty
By Mick White BRISBANE — Queensland is the most poverty-stricken state in Australia, according to ... in the report include Inala and New Farm in Brisbane, Aurukun in Cape York and Mornington Island in ... which they cannot escape". In Brisbane, the Salvation Army has reported a sharp increase in demand ...
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Rural Queensland fears radioactive dump
its attention to two small rural communities in south-east Queensland — Esk in the Brisbane Valley and ... Engineers, Environment Scientists and Town and Regional Planners. At the same time, a Brisbane public ... Brisbane. This building was inundated during the 1974 floods. Further, it was not designed as a radioactive ...
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Top-down agenda set for green party
Brisbane-based Institute for Social Ecology. Drew Hutton, one of the five self-appointed national ... "conveners", told a recent meeting of the Brisbane-based Australian Green Working Group (AGWG) that the initial ... from Brisbane, north Queensland, WA, Tasmania, Sydney, Illawarra, Lismore and the Hunter region. There ...