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  1. Newstart poverty crisis: Raise the rate now

    groups to be established in Perth and Brisbane that, together with the Australian Unemployed Workers ...

  2. Plug pulled on Jabiluka NDA

    demonstrations are crucial to demonstrate the extent of community opposition to the mine. In Brisbane ... the Brisbane Magistrates' Court on February 18. On February 10, at a public meeting at 7pm in the ... the Brisbane Jabiluka Action Group on 3221 0188. February 11, 1998 305 News ...

  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 sweeten apartheid!' Protests target Max Brenner in Melbourne, Sydney

    Anti-racism International solidarity Middle East Tony Iltis Aron Micallef About 300 activists protested in Melbourne on September 9 against chocolate company Max Brenner’s sponsorship of elite Israeli military units, as part of the Boycott, Divestment and ...

  5. Haneef frame-up: Why 'terror' laws should be repealed

    registrar at the Gold Coast Hospital, was arrested at Brisbane Airport on July 2 and detained without ... solitary confinement in Brisbane's Wolston Correctional Centre. This is not the first time that ... Brisbane Courier Mail saying: "The minister has obligations under the migration act and based upon ...

  6. Doctor charged after 12 days in detention

    "anti-terror" laws. Haneef was arrested on July 2 at Brisbane Airport attempting to board a flight to Bangalore. ... Brisbane Airport, he was traveling on a one-way ticket — the implication being that he was fleeing ...

  7. What's behind Howard's terror law frame-ups?

    Haneef boarded a flight in Brisbane to be reunited with his wife in Bangalore and meet his newly born ... daughter for the first time, as he was trying to do at the time of his arrest at Brisbane Airport on July ... including the Law Council of Australia (LCA). There have been protest actions in Brisbane and Sydney and ...

  8. Water crisis: how the market economy is sucking us dry

    rainfall in the region was 31.5% below average. Other urban centres such as Perth, Brisbane and Sydney have ... running out of water. Governments have proposed a number of measures to deal with the crisis. In Brisbane ...

  9. Why the market cannot solve the environment crisis

    replace short-haul flights between Adelaide, Melbourne, Canberra, Sydney and Brisbane. This is a realistic ...