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  1. 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 ...

  2. Workers affected by floods, cyclone left unprotected

    floods, or demanding that they assist with clean-ups without pay. Brown told the Brisbane Times on January ... 25 that employees at a Brisbane childcare centre were stood down without pay as the floodwaters ...

  3. ‘Equal marriage rights now!’

    rallied in Brisbane’s Queens Park. Andrew Bartlett, a former Australian Democrats senator and now Greens ... candidate for the federal seat of Brisbane, told the rally: “We all need to stand up for our principles. If ...

  4. Health workers fight for new agreement

    Bill Mason, Brisbane Staff in the Queensland public health system have launched a campaign for ... conditions. According to the September 9 Brisbane Courier Mail, Scott warned that unless the state Labor ...

  5. SIEV X trial commences

    Brisbane Supreme Court on May 18. Daoed faces up to 20 years' jail for his involvement in the ... X survivors have been brought to Brisbane to give evidence. Commonwealth crown prosecutor Glen Rice told the ...

  6. Postal workers strike for 24 hours

    and services branch secretary Len Cooper. Bill Mason reports from Brisbane that postal workers ... a mass meeting at the CEPU offices in south Brisbane. Australia Post angered unionists by bringing in ...

  7. 'Lying rodents' to target Howard's election launch

    Marce Cameron, Brisbane An alliance of progressive organisations is planning a peaceful rally and ... the Earth, the Wilderness Society, the Brisbane Anti-Bases Group, Rally for Peace, the Indigenous ...

  8. 'Leave the Iraqis alone!'

    Dave Riley, Brisbane Four-hundred anti-war activists — mostly young people — gathered on March 18 ... march through Brisbane streets. From Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly, March 22, 2006. Visit the Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly home ...

  9. Qantas sacks 480 maintenance workers

    workers, and transfer 140 of the positions to Brisbane and to Melbourne's Avalon airport. The ... Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly that he doesn't see how an extra 70 jobs at Avalon and Brisbane can take on all ...

  10. Another peace activist detained by ASIO

    Brisbane Airport on February 3. O'Reilly, an Australian citizen, was detained for 30 minutes in ... and arms of the USS Ronald Reagan in Brisbane last week and the ongoing targeting carried out by Pine ...

  11. and ain't I a woman: Abortion access for all women

    areas, abortion is extremely expensive and disruptive. In Queensland, just three clinics outside Brisbane ... Brisbane charge around $165 more than the rebate. On top of the cost of an abortion, women living outside ...

  12. Qld government faces mounting industrial pressure

    498 July 3, 2002 BY REBECCA MECKELBURG BRISBANE — The current dispute between the Queensland ... in comments reported by Brisbane's Courier Mail like, "they definitely deserve better pay ...

  13. Steve Towson demands 'Stand down Howard'

    561 November 12, 2003 BY NICOLE HOYE & TERRICA STRUDWICK BRISBANE — In the midst of his ... muso Chantal Vitalis. One Shot at Freedom is available at the Brisbane Activist Centre and bookshop, ...

  14. Defiant nurses stand ground

    BY REBECCA MECKELBURG & MARCEL CAMERON BRISBANE — Despite the state ALP government's ... health workers from Brisbane will converge in a mass march on parliament house. Queensland Health has ...

  15. Is Hanson's party over?

    348 February 10, 1999 By Graham Matthews BRISBANE — Three of the 10 One Nation MPs in the ... Brisbane secretary Jim McIlroy told Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly that the causes of One Nation's disintegration ...

  16. A song for an apology

    420 September 13, 2000 BY JOHN FRAME BRISBANE — Simon Hunt, formerly known as Pauline Pantsdown, ... I think that's a good thing. [John Frame has presented Queer Radio on Brisbane's community radio ...

  17. S11 forum discusses strategy

    416 August 16, 2000 BY GRAHAM MATTHEWS BRISBANE — "The demonstrations in Seattle have opened ... reduce military spending and increase funds to services for women. Brisbane S11 Alliance meets Mondays at ...

  18. INDONESIA: Union leader tours Australia

    prosperity while religious fighting continues." Pakpahan, touring Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne with ... Brisbane, Tim Stewart reports that Pakpahan told 65 unionists about how he became involved in the ...

  19. Queensland's 'incarceration fetish'

    401 April 12, 2000 BY EDWARD JOHNSTONE BRISBANE — The just-released Criminal Justice Commission ... Arthur Gorrie Correctional Centre in Brisbane and other correctional facilities across Australia. ...

  20. Write on: Letters to the editor

    Bragg's performance and commentary at the Livid Festival in Brisbane, I have a number of comments to make ... "There is power in the union" (Bragg). Daniel Sullivan North Brisbane Hollow assurances Last ...

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