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  1. Unionists remember Brisbane’s 1912 general strike

    Workers & unions Jim McIlroy Magan-djin/Brisbane About 200 unionists gathered at King George ... Square on February 2 for a meeting to commemorate the centenary of the 1912 Brisbane General Strike, one ... feminist Emma Miller in Brisbane's King George Square. Photo: Jim McIlroy News ...

  2. Walk against Warming march in Brisbane

    Jim McIlroy 723 Brisbane September 1, 2007 On August 25, 500 people braved unseasonal rainstorms ...

  3. Corporate scumbag awards in Brisbane

    441 March 21, 2001 BY KAREN FLETCHER BRISBANE — The M1 Alliance has issued a call for nominations ... for "Corporate Scumbag of the Week" in the lead up to the blockade of the Brisbane stock ... environmental destruction wrought by BHP at its Ok Tedi mine in Papua New Guinea. The Brisbane M1 Alliance plans ...

  4. FULL AUDIO: Brisbane pro-choice forum

    Feminism Democracy Alex Bainbridge Magan-djin/Brisbane Young Queenslanders for the Right to Choose ... University College of Medicine, Cairns); Benedict Coyne (human rights lawyer based in Brisbane and the ...

  5. Brisbane rallies against Campbell Newman

    Magan-djin/Brisbane A week before the Queensland election more than 500 people rallied against premier Campbell Newman ... democracy". Greens candidate for South Brisbane Jonathan Siri said: "We need a complete ban on political ...

  6. Occupying Brisbane City Hall

    Anti-racism Freya Moran Magan-djin/Brisbane On May 2, following the rally in King George Square to ... spoke to them. Brisbane City Hall is a civic building that holds political and cultural significance and ...

  7. Protest marks Al-Nakba in Brisbane

    Middle East Jim McIlroy Magan-djin/Brisbane More than 100 people rallied in King George Square on ... The rally was organised by Justice for Palestine Brisbane. For more details visit ...

  8. Sam Watson — socialist for South Brisbane

    Paul Benedek 785 Australia Brisbane February 28, 2009 One of the most prominent Murri campaigners ... in Brisbane, longtime social justice activist, Sam Watson, will contest Queensland Premier Anna ... Bligh's seat of South Brisbane at the March 21 state election. Watson is running as the candidate for the ...

  9. Migrant fiesta set for Brisbane

    By Bill Mason BRISBANE — Fiesta '95, the migrant fiesta held annually here, is set for Sunday ... November 5 at Musgrave Park, South Brisbane. According to fiesta organiser Penny Glass, this year's ... lead-up to Fiesta '95, the Brisbane Migrant Resource Centre is holding an Open Week from October 28 ...

  10. Brisbane launches Women of Steel

    Feminism Margaret Gleeson Jobs for Women campaign Women of Steel Magan-djin/Brisbane More than 30 ... people attended the Brisbane launch of Women of Steel: Gender, Jobs and Justice at BHP on September 17 ... follow us on Twitter. September 17, 2015 1070 Women of Steel book launch in Brisbane. Photo: Susan Price ...

  11. Brisbane workers demand pay equity

    Workers & unions Jim McIlroy Magan-djin/Brisbane More than 500 community services workers ... Services workers. Marg Gleeson, who works at Brisbane Community Housing and was named Australian Services ... Kath Nelson said, “Last year in Brisbane we had the biggest pay equity rally since the 1970s. Together, ...

  12. Brisbane: 'Plebiscite? No way! We want equal rights today!'

    LGBTIQ Democracy Alex Bainbridge Magan-djin/Brisbane 1000 people marched through the streets ...

  13. Rally, march for Invasion Day in Brisbane

    Anti-racism Indigenous Jim McIlroy Magan-djin/Brisbane About 200 people rallied and marched to ...

  14. Scorcher launch in Brisbane

    Jim McIlroy 708 Brisbane May 5, 2007 — Australia will face a moral duty to accept thousands of ...

  15. Constructing Fear premieres in Brisbane

    Andrew Martin Meanjin/Brisbane Two public screenings of Constructing Fear have been held in ... Brisbane — the first on September 19 to an enthusiastic crowd of 200 people at the University of Queensland ... was elected in the by-election for former premier Peter Beattie's seat of Brisbane Central. ...

  16. Brisbane: Socialists plan campaigns

    Jim McIlroy Meanjin/Brisbane "Towards socialism and sustainability" was the theme of the ... for the seat of Brisbane, and activist in the Community Climate Network Qld; and SA national executive ...

  17. Brisbane rally demands action on Black deaths in custody

    Indigenous Jim McIlroy Magan-djin/Brisbane "Still no justice! Stop Black deaths in ... announced that a new Deaths in Custody Watch Committee would be formed in Brisbane to monitor treatment of ...

  18. Stolen Aboriginal wages launch in Brisbane

    Jim McIlroy Meanjin/Brisbane Ros Kidd, author of a new report detailing the theft of hundreds of ... Brisbane seat of Griffith in the coming federal elections.] September 15, 2007 724 News ...

  19. Brisbane continues campaign for civil rights

    Ben Sebastian Meanjin/Brisbane In the wake of a Federal Court judge finding that the Australian ... your civil rights" was held in Brisbane on September 2. Kevin Clements, director of the Australian ...

  20. Brisbane Social Forum discusses war, globalisation

    BY BILL MASON BRISBANE — "We are not anti-globalisation, we are pro-democracy, pro-human ... Development Policy (Food First), at a major session of the Brisbane Social Forum on March 22. The World Trade ... Brisbane Social Forum, held at the New Farm Powerhouse over the March 21-23 weekend, attracted more than ...

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