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Greens, Democrats battle over Queensland Senate seat
By Maurice Sibelle BRISBANE 鈥 Queensland voters in the federal election will have some 205 ... Democratic Socialist candidate for the seat of Brisbane, Susan Price, said, "Unfortunately, we will not ... Brisbane and Griffith." Queensland Greens state campaign coordinator Malcolm Lewis told 麻豆传媒 ...
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Catalonia: Huge pro-independence 'human chain' sharpens crisis
National liberation Dick Nichols 981 Spain Barcelona September 14, 2013 About 1.6 million Catalans linked arms to form the Via Catalana, a 400 kilometre human chain demanding a referendum on independence for their country, to mark Catalonia鈥檚 national day ...
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Pussy Riot jailed for two years
Democracy Books & music A Russian judge sentenced three members of Pussy Riot to two years each in prison on hooliganism charges on August 17. The judge said the three band members, who have already been detained for five months, committed hooliganism ...
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How to make an ecosocialist revolution
Environment Socialism Ian Angus Ian Angus is editor of climateandcapitalism.com and co-author, with Simon Butler, of the new book Too Many People?. This is his keynote presentation to the recent Climate Change Social Change conference in Melbourne. * * * ...
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Stop Adani movement faces new challenge
won鈥檛 stand strong to save the Reef?鈥 Miree Le Roy, the Greens candidate for the northern Brisbane seat ... private profiteers.鈥 Kamala Emanuel, the Socialist Alliance candidate for the inner Brisbane seat of ...
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Write on: letters to the editor
activists, workers, students and members of the community gathered outside Brisbane Parliament House in ... Brisbane on Friday March 3. With a giant chicken, "Ban Battery Cages" banner and many enthusiasts ... set a phase-out date will be held in Brisbane in August. It is crucial now to keep up the support so ...
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War, occupation and the fight for workers' rights
Jim McIlroy, Brisbane "No-one in Iraq supports the US invasion; no-one supports the ... auditorium on October 6. The public meeting was part of a national tour by Ismaal, sponsored in Brisbane by ...
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Venezuela shows 'there is a better way'
Peter Rafael, Brisbane "The essence of the revolution is humanity 鈥 how can you oppose ... Solidarity Brigade, told a packed audience at the Brisbane Activist Centre on September 14. The meeting heard ...
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Students plan large sustainability conference
Carey Hemingway, Brisbane The 15th annual Students of Sustainability (SoS) conference, the largest ... student-run environment conference in Australia, will take place in Brisbane on July 9-15. Ellie Smith, ...
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Anti-war activists' notebook
"Death". Logan peace rally demands No War! BY LYNDA HANSEN BRISBANE 鈥 More than 150 people attended a peace ... rally in Logan City, south of Brisbane, on March 9. The rally was initiated by the newly formed Logan ...
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Qld govt attempts to suppress protest camp
BY BILL MASON & TIM STEWART BRISBANE 鈥 In an extraordinary move against food-irradiation ... Brisbane. The protest camp was set up in June 2002, after the government reneged on the state ALP's ...
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Government 'censoring the truth' about the war
BY MARCEL CAMERON BRISBANE 鈥 "Our bombs and missiles will be as effective [in fighting ... terrorism] as fighting fire with kerosene", retired brigadier Adrian D'Hage told a packed Brisbane ...
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Politicians seek to tarnish campaigners
BY EWAN SAUNDERS BRISBANE 鈥 Scenes of clashes between protesters and heavily-armed Italian riot ... anti-capitalist groups planning actions during the October Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Brisbane ...
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Unionists to rally for maritime workers
308 March 4, 1998 By Nick Everett BRISBANE 鈥 Several thousand trade unionists are expected to ... rally in Brisbane's King George Square on March 4 in support of the Maritime Union of Australia ...
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Action updates
Freeway protest BRISBANE 鈥 About 50 people attended a rally on June 17 to protest against the city ... freeways". Students protest GST BRISBANE 鈥 Thirty students picketed the Democrats' offices here on June ...
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MUA activists foresee bigger fights
By Bill Mason BRISBANE 鈥 Two men who took part in the Patrick lockout dispute as Maritime Union of ... Resistance Centre. The film, which features interviews with MUA members and supporters on the Brisbane picket ...
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Mercury danger in new hospital buildings
212 November 21, 1995 By Paul Jones BRISBANE 鈥 Queensland health minister Peter Beattie plans to ... in new buildings planned for Royal Brisbane Hospital (RBH). In response to complaints from registered ...
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Manning Clark smear exposed
By Bill Mason BRISBANE 鈥 The vicious smear campaign mounted by the Brisbane Courier-Mail newspaper ...
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Aboriginal unionist: Gov鈥檛 failing to create jobs
work, want to have a go鈥, Aboriginal activist Mark Fordham told 60 people at Brisbane鈥檚 Kurilpa Hall on ... Union of Australia and a visiting Colombian Unionist. In Brisbane, 20 people held a protest outside ...
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'Not another Tampa election'- thousands to rally for refugees
William and Hay Streets, Perth. In Brisbane the rally will also be on Sunday June 20, 1pm at Brisbane ...