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Water trading is drought profiteering
latest of more than 140 Victorian towns on level 4 water restrictions. Brisbane and South-East ... November 16. While Brisbane's water supply is the lowest of Australia's big cities, it is not ...
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Water crisis: how the market economy is sucking us dry
rainfall in the region was 31.5% below average. Other urban centres such as Perth, Brisbane and Sydney have ... running out of water. Governments have proposed a number of measures to deal with the crisis. In Brisbane ...
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Industrial relations: choice cuts
legislation. I met Brad at a local meeting that had been organised by a Brisbane community group to talk about ... a complaint. A top manager came to Brisbane, met with Brad, his supervisor and others, sorted it out and went ...
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Letters to the Editor
parliament. The new package includes two months salary (around $18,000) and free flights to Brisbane. A worker ... elected representative. A rort by any other name is still a rort. Ron Baker South Brisbane, Qld Otways ...
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Corporate greed drives Murray-Darling crisis
May 15 Brisbane Courier-Mail. "The Energy Users Association of Australia, which represents big ... water-use restrictions on residents, with Brisbane recently graduating to level five restrictions. But there ...
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Public transport for public good
block subdivision. The population of the huge Brisbane City Council area at the beginning of the 1990s ... greater Brisbane exploded north and south along the coast until it stretched from Fraser Island into New ...
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Write On: Letters to Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly
Labor's Anna Bligh in South Brisbane and the Greens success in increasing their vote this time round, ... Stones Corner on Saturday mornings. The Socialist Alliance doubled its vote in South Brisbane, and unlike ...
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World's deadliest gun: Australian storm of metal terror
Metal Storm technology, invented by a Brisbane grocer, is an electronically initiated, stacked ... both Australia and the United States. Metal Storm employs 60 staff, is headquartered in Brisbane ...
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What next to defeat Howard's anti-union laws?
Brisbane, Rockhampton, Cairns, Townsville, Mackay, Gladstone, Hobart and Devonport. The following day, more ... 1 Wollongong meeting and the Transport Workers Union pre-rally meeting in Brisbane on June 30. However, Unions ...
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Save Medicare!
world already tells a different story. In Brisbane, there has been a 17.7% fall in bulk-billing in the ... Brisbane has trebled. The February 25 Sydney Morning Herald revealed health department figures which show ...
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Cardinal: 'We need more socialists in the union movement'
considered that he might be one. When Cardinal returned to Brisbane and his trade as a refrigeration ... workers at Transfield who were working at the Caltex refinery site in Brisbane... an agreement was signed ...
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Anti-war activist notebook
University shuts down anti-war stalls BY SAM KING BRISBANE — Queensland University of Technology ... BRISBANE — Clubs and Societies Fair Day on the University of Queensland on February 26 reflected the high ...
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Write on: Letters to the editor
Helen Riley Brisbane [Abridged.] Refugees' chances I don't wish to criticise the letter from ... Baker Vice-president, Unemployed Persons Advocacy South Brisbane [Abridged.] Equality of opportunity? ...
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Is protesting CHOGM a protest against globalisation?
causing injustice to developing countries." The expectation of the Brisbane 2001 CHOGM is that it ... Earth in Brisbane and is a member of the CHOGM Action Network.] ...
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Nineteenth century laws still frustrating women
anti-abortion laws. In Queensland, feminist groups, including the Brisbane International Women's Day ... unsuccessful. Then, in 1985, the Queensland police raided the clinics in Brisbane and Townsville, seizing ...
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Student politics, the anti-corporate movement and the Socialist Alliance
Meeting (CHOGM) in Brisbane. Convincing students to protest at these meetings requires a major campaign on ... converge on Melbourne and Brisbane will be a step forward and a show of strength for the movement. It is ...
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Write on: letters to the editor
letter = Noel Bird Brisbane [Abridged.] Soros' big lie In reference to George Soros' article on ... call themselves international or socialist. @auth letter = Zanny Begg Brisbane Resistance organiser ...
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Neo-Nazi thugs offer their services to Hanson
birth), bombing of the Brisbane office of the Communist Party of Australia. The ANSP's most notorious ... firebombing a left-wing Brisbane bookshop. After the collapse of the Nazi Party in the mid-'70s, Saleam ...
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Write on: letters to the editor
Parliament House in Brisbane on 7 June to demand that the Coalition "put One Nation last" on their ... towards One Nation that we are a left face of the official politics they hate. Martin Thomas Brisbane ...
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Write on: letters to the editor
[Abridged.] Keys to many solutions? We refer to the recent stunt Brisbane Lord Mayor Jim "Sorry" ... Soorley gave the Murris keys to the city of Brisbane. How many keys does Jimbo have and how many venues ...