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An insider's view of the Maritime Union
(MUSAA), and an inspector for the International Transport Federation. Bob is well known on the Brisbane ... secretary of the Brisbane branch of the Democratic Socialist Party. Question: The MUA has been under ...
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Vigils light the dark against cruelty
1146 The Brisbane vigil. Photo: Alex Bainbridge News ...
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Farmers and graziers beef up opposition to Adani and Acland mines
protests in Brisbane and local areas calling on the minister to immediately reject the NAC expansion. On ...
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Anything will burn, even a business model
being investigated. The Princess Alexandra Hospital in Brisbane has up to 24,000 square metres of ... Brisbane and hospitals in Cairns and Mackay — have also been named. Apart from these facilities, none of ...
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Occupy Australia: Thousands turn out across the country
the Occupy Sydney site. In Brisbane, Jim McIlroy reports at least 300 people attended the occupation ... cent!" Further discussions were held to plan the future of the Brisbane occupation. On October 16, Occupy ... Brisbane said an estimated 450 different people passed through Post Office Square over October 15 all up, ...
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The spirit of Eureka and Australia’s working-class struggles
not just a flag for construction workers. It was there when meatworkers in Brisbane picketed in the ...
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Fairfax marks World Press Freedom Day by sacking 125 staff
Review, Brisbane Times and WA Today will publish fewer state-based stories. Sydney Morning Herald state ...
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Support for marriage equality surges
1156 Brisbane rallies for Yes in September. Photo: Alex Bainbridge News ...
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Protest and you'll cop it
Brisbane's streets on the first day of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM). In the three ... authorities' strategy in Brisbane is very clearly to make it seem like it will be too dangerous to join the ... that they've long wanted". Intimidation Merran Lawlor is the director of Brisbane ...
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North Queensland's hidden history
Responding to the Brisbane-based Australian Labour Federation's call for a general strike in September ... 1890, the Brisbane Courier ranted: "The ALF has thrown off the mask and boldly raised the flag of ... inception. A nother radical flare-up occurred in Brisbane in 1919. A number of different factors contributed ...
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Write on
123 November 17, 1993 Brisbane police I'm not surprised by the events of November 8 in ... Brisbane. There has since been much discussion regarding the general police attitude to Aboriginal people in ... I've been living in Brisbane for a year now. In fact, living in the heart of a great deal of tension, ...
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Black deaths in custody must stop!
123 November 17, 1993 By John Nebauer BRISBANE — The death in custody of an 18-year-old youth has ... detained by police officers in Bereton Street near Musgrave Park in South Brisbane along with another ... before the police vehicle arrived at the car park of the Brisbane city watch-house. The youth also said ...
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Manus Island: ‘A day of horror’
for hours and activists camped overnight outside the department of immigration in Brisbane. The next ...
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We must #StopAdani if we're to save our climate future
being built. We camped just outside Bowen, about 1000 kilometres north of Brisbane, on the Whitsunday ...
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My fifty years fighting for equal pay
working life as a community sector worker in Brisbane. Although men and women in the community services ... workers. My salary fell by $20,000 when I moved from a job in local government in Sydney to Brisbane. As ...
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Pine Gap peace pilgrims receive court summons
Brisbane and Margaret Pestorius and Paul Christie of Cairns are each charged with trespass under the ...
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Vale Rosie Scott, writer and human rights supporter
Rosie moved to Brisbane with her husband, the Australian film director and science writer Danny ...
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The ‘love that dare not speak its name’ is yelling now
Brisbane, 4000 in Canberra and thousands more across the country. With the movement swelling to new heights ...
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Thousands of unionists rally against government
back any worker targeted by their boss for going on strike today." Melbourne march In Brisbane ... as Queensland Council of Unions, with most speakers opposing the attack on penalty rates. BRisbane ...
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May Day marches around Australia
Sunday, May 5 marches will be held in the following cities. Brisbane 9.30am assemble cnr Wharf and Turbot ... Streets, Brisbane, for 10am march start. 10.30am Family Fun Day at RNA showgrounds. Cairns 9.45am march ...