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Centrelink job cuts, outsourcing continue
By Jim McIlroy BRISBANE — Service delays and staffing shortages have increased in Centrelink ... relaunched. [Jim McIlroy is a CPSU workplace delegate at the Centrelink Brisbane Call Centre.] February 3, ...
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Beattie government under threat
By Jim McIlroy BRISBANE — The Queensland Labor government will become a minority government, ... desperate to consolidate its hold on office. According to the Brisbane Courier-Mail, Premier Peter Beattie ...
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Food irradiation plant planned in Queensland
build a nuclear irradiation plant in Narangba, north of Brisbane. The company claims the plant will only ... food irradiation plant at the Rocklea wholesale fruit and produce markets in Brisbane in the 1980s but ...
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Indonesian, East Timorese militants tour
Indonesian, East Timorese militants tour By ROHAN JOSEY BRISBANE — More than 130 people, some who ... day, da Silva and Sujatmiko were interviewed for the Brisbane Courier-Mail and SBS radio. Sujatmiko was ...
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Anti-racist peace march, counter-conference planned
BY TIM STEWART & MIKE BYRNE BRISBANE — Spurred on by the threat of US military strikes, the ... by the Brisbane Courier Mail to link protests outside CHOGM with the September 11 attacks in New York ...
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Lismore activists plan for CHOGM
protests in Brisbane during the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting — and on August 11 50 of them ... protesting were not hard to find, with speakers from the Brisbane Stop CHOGM Alliance, the Socialist Alliance ...
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Katter resignation rocks National Party
BY JIM MCILROY BRISBANE — The announcement on July 8 by Queensland federal MP Bob Katter that he ... considering such a federal alliance include NSW state independents Peter Cochran and Tony Windsor. Brisbane ...
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03 Alliance calls for S11 style blockade of CBF
meeting in Melbourne before the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Brisbane on October 6. The CBF ... will try to stop them from even getting to CHOGM in Brisbane." The O3-CHOGM Alliance also decided ...
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Lesbians win access to sperm banks
262 February 12, 1997 By Kerry Vernon BRISBANE — The Queensland Anti-discrimination Tribunal ruled ... require the removal of references to sexuality from existing anti-discrimination laws. The Brisbane ...
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Information nights tackle ignorance on Wik
300 December 3, 1997 Information nights tackle ignorance on Wik By Andy Morison BRISBANE ... it", said Carol Booth, coordinator of ANTaR (Qld). A survey conducted in the Brisbane suburb of Nundah ...
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Queensland students defy threats
327 August 6, 1998 Queensland students defy threats By Peter Robson and Sarah Cunningham BRISBANE ... organise it the Brisbane walkout, call Resistance on (07) 3254 0565. ...
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Judith Wright's biography launched
311 March 25, 1998 By Robyn Marshall BRISBANE — On March 7, Veronica Brady, the controversial nun ... founded the Wildlife Preservation Society in Brisbane, which is still going today. As early as the 1930s, ...
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20 years' jail for possession of a leaflet
20 years' jail for possession of a leaflet By Karen Fredericks BRISBANE — The Help End ... Coast night club after swallowing the drug "fantasy". Brisbane's only daily paper, the ...
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Actions against Jabiluka mine
By Ruth Ratcliffe BRISBANE — A day of action to protest against the Jabiluka uranium mine was held ... collective. Bec Duffey from the Brisbane Jabiluka Action Group urged the protesters to remember that "as ...
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Asylum seekers demand end to '45 days' rule
BRISBANE — Believe it or not, there is a group of people Australia who are forbidden to earn ... not allowed to work. The Asylum Seekers Centre in Brisbane says that in its effort to distinguish ...
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'Black Friday' for Queensland government
By Bill Mason BRISBANE — The fate of the Queensland Coalition government hangs in the balance in ... South Brisbane, told Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly. "But corruption or misuse of ministerial expenses are ...
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Another NTEU victory
By Robyn Marshall BRISBANE — The National Tertiary Education Industry Union (NTEU) won an ... which, by industry standards, are very low. Federal education minister David Kemp was in Brisbane on the ...
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Net bet fiasco threatens Labor
By Graham Matthews BRISBANE — The "net bet" fiasco, involving Queensland treasurer David ... questions about the role of MPs", Democratic Socialist Party Brisbane branch secretary Jim McIlroy told ...
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Student bureaucrats refuse support for anti-VSU campaign
By Ruth Ratcliffe BRISBANE — The University of Queensland student union executive has shocked ... state-wide day of action against VSU on March 31 and is organising another in Brisbane on May 19. April 21, ...
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'Crime wave' blamed on youth
Crime wave' blamed on youth By Ruth Ratcliffe BRISBANE — According to the Queensland Victims ... Brisbane Courier-Mail: "A deficiency in state laws means we can't remove [young people] until ...