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1. 17-year-olds out of Queensland adult prisons

   centres 17-year-olds in adult prisons Youth & students Magan-djin/Brisbane THE Queensland government ...

2. Qld to sell $15bn of public assets

   Dave Riley 799 Australia Brisbane June 21, 2009 Citing the dubious need for Queensland to keep its ... Coast light rail project and bus way upgrades across suburban Brisbane — was in the pipeline long before ... assurance that jobs will be protected, the Queensland Public Sector Union told the Brisbane Times that the ...

3. 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.” LGTBI Legal Services president Merran Lawler told the June 14 Brisbane City News the group wanted ...

4. Protest hits Qld uranium mine plans

   Environment Jim McIlroy Magan-djin/Brisbane Protesters erected a giant “radioactive barrel” ... state government. The protest, sponsored by Friends of the Earth Brisbane’s Peace Anti-Nuclear and Clean ... the campaign, visit www.brisbane.foe.org.au. Australia May 16, 2012 923 Anti-uranium mining protesters ...

5. Protest condemns Bahrain invasion

   International solidarity Jim McIlroy Meanjin/Brisbane About 100 protesters gathered in Brisbane ... Bahraini community in Brisbane, welcomed the support from all who attended the rally, and declared that the ...

6. Action targets Israel, gas industry

   Environment Middle East Jim McIlroy Magan-djin/Brisbane “No trade with apartheid Israel” 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 ...

7. 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’s 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 ...

8. 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’s CBD on October 16, as part of a national day of action to “Defend our ... Brisbane finished the rally by pointing to a green Eureka flag brandished by one demonstrator: “The Eureka ...

9. Occupy for a world ‘full of the power of love’

   Economy Magan-djin/Brisbane Veteran Brisbane activist Gary McLennan spoke at an Occupy Brisbane ... that I’ve been asked twice to speak to the Occupy Brisbane movement. I said when I first spoke to you ... Brisbane, politicians and the media dare to make fun of you. They have destroyed the world. They have ruined ...

10. 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: “We need to also remember the families who suffer from ...

11. 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 ...

12. 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 ...

13. 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 ...

14. Queensland teachers strike for fair pay

    Paul Benedek Meanjin/Brisbane Chants of "Hardest working, lowest paid: Bligh and Wilson, be ... ashamed!" rang out from 4000 teachers at the gates of state parliament on May 19. The Brisbane teachers were ... teachers at the Brisbane Convention Centre that, since the union campaign had begun, the QTU had a spike in ...

15. Unions rally to stop Qld gov't sell-off

    Dave Riley Meanjin/Brisbane Fifteen hundred trade unionists and supporters marched through the ... streets of Brisbane to state parliament on July 3 to oppose the ALP state government's planned ... fight against the privatisation of the Brisbane City Council bus service in the 1990s with community ...

16. Sand mining to be phased out on Stradbroke Island

    Environment Mining Jim McIlroy stradbroke island Magan-djin/Brisbane Sand mining on Stradbroke ... Island, offshore from Brisbane, will be phased out by 2027, under a new plan announced by the Queensland ... on the doorstep of Brisbane we will have a large national park, jointly managed by the indigenous ...

17. LNP government goes after unions

    Workers & unions Magan-djin/Brisbane Members of a number of unions rallied outside Brisbane ... health minister weeks beforehand. A byelection will be held in his North Brisbane seat. The magistrate ... the court in Brisbane. Photo: ETU Queensland & NT/Facebook. News ...

18. After elections, prepare to fight Newman

    Elections Liam Flenady 917 Australia Brisbane March 29, 2012 The day after the Queensland election ... absolute opposition to these parties. It stood in three electorates, South Brisbane, Sandgate and ... Brisbane in the March 24 Queensland elections.] Related articles Socialist Alliance vote rises in Qld. ...

19. Socialist candidate wants to fight Qld’s return to Bjelke-Petersen days

    Elections Meanjin/Brisbane Liam Flenady has been endorsed as the Socialist Alliance’s candidate in ... the April by-election for the South Brisbane seat of former ALP Queensland premier Anna Bligh. Flenady ... Socialist Alliance in the South Brisbane by-election on a platform of genuine, radical change. The Socialist ...

20. Women rally for full equality, abortion rights

    Feminism Rosa Louverture Magan-djin/Brisbane Hundreds of people donned as much green as they could ... find on March 10 and crammed into the Irish Murphy’s pub in Brisbane to start their celebrations for ... where performances of pro-woman poetry and music took place. Australia March 12, 2012 915 Brisbane ...

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