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1. Newman says leave endangered Koalas out on a limb

   Environment Jim McIlroy Magan-djin/Brisbane The battle to protect at-risk koalas is stepping up in ... Brisbane's southside. Then state environment minister Molly Robson lost her seat over the issue, after mass ...

2. Protest against bay dredging

   Jim McIlroy Meanjin/Brisbane On January 8, protesters took to piers around Port Philip Bay as part ... Submissions oppose Traveston Dam Project @9point non = BRISBANE – The great majority of the record 16,500 ... Kevin Ingersole told the January 15 Brisbane Courier-Mail: "On the science, this project has got no ...

3. Asylum seeker found dead 'feared deportation'

   Refugees & migrants Anti-racism Asylum seekers & refugees Brisbane airport departation of ... the Brisbane airport on October 29. According to friends, he feared being deported back to Iran. “He ...

4. Honduras coup film screened

   International solidarity Jim McIlroy Meanjin/Brisbane BRISBANE — Quien Dijo Miedo (“We are not ...

5. Hiroshima Day marked

   Imperialism & war Environment Jim McIlroy Magan-djin/Brisbane BRISBANE — The annual Hiroshima ...

6. Coal expansion opposed

   Environment Coal Climate crisis Jim McIlroy Climate change Magan-djin/Brisbane BRISBANE — Several ...

7. Government targeting its own workers, says union

   Economy Jim McIlroy Magan-djin/Brisbane About 6000 Queensland health workers walked off the job ... October 5. Brisbane hospital staff are due to rally and stop work later that week. October 1, 2010 855 ...

8. Two hundred rally against nuclear industry

   Environment Jim McIlroy Magan-djin/Brisbane "No uranium mining," "No nuclear ... Disarmament, held in Brisbane on Palm Sunday, April 17. The rally and march attracted about 200 people. ...

9. Catholic school teachers march

   Jim McIlroy 832 Brisbane March 26, 2010 Hundreds of striking catholic school teachers marched on ... across Brisbane, Cairns and Toowoomba were affected by the strike. Some were forced to close, others ...

10. Mary River dam delayed

    David White Meanjin/Brisbane Queensland Premier Anna Bligh has announced that construction of the ... Brisbane appeared likely to run out of water within 18 months, has led to widespread community protest. ...

11. Gig raises funds for Palestine

    Middle East Jim McIlroy Magan-djin/Brisbane BRISBANE — "You know that we are rising, our day ...

12. 17-year-olds out of Queensland adult prisons

    centres 17-year-olds in adult prisons Youth & students Magan-djin/Brisbane THE Queensland government ...

13. Union and community solidarity deepens for sacked wharfies

    Workers & unions Margaret Gleeson Magan-djin/Brisbane The peaceful community assembly at the ... Port of Brisbane. As the dispute over the August 6 midnight sacking of Sydney and Brisbane wharfies ... terminals remain idle. In Brisbane, the Queensland Council of Unions (QCU) has endorsed the action taken by ...

14. Qld to sell $15bn of public assets

    Dave Riley 799 Australia Brisbane June 21, 2009 Citing the dubious need for Queensland to keep its ... Coast light rail project and bus way upgrades across suburban Brisbane — was in the pipeline long before ... assurance that jobs will be protected, the Queensland Public Sector Union told the Brisbane Times that the ...

15. Students prepare for the 'big show'

    Adam Baker Magan-djin/Brisbane BRISBANE — "On September 11 in Melbourne the big show is ...

16. First woman arrested under Qld 'anti-bikie laws'

    Democracy bikie laws Magan-djin/Brisbane A 40-year-old library assistant, Sally Kuether, was ... met her partner Phillip Palmer and friend Ronald Germain at the Dayboro Hotel, north-west of Brisbane ... “disturbed by the reports [of corruption]” but “not surprised”, the Brisbane Times said on January 28. “This ...

17. SA candidates protest big banks' greed

    Elections Jim McIlroy Meanjin/Brisbane Socialist Alliance candidates for the upcoming Queensland ... state elections, Liam Flenady (South Brisbane), and Mike Crook (Sandgate), organised a rally in Brisbane ... Crook, with supporters, outside ANZ's Brisbane branch on February 17. Photo: News ...

18. Socialist Alliance vote rises in Qld election

    Elections Jim McIlroy Meanjin/Brisbane The Socialist Alliance (SA) pushed ahead with its campaign ... three seats it contested. In South Brisbane, Socialist Alliance candidate Liam Flenady won 1.9% (434 ... a candidate for SA, had received 0.55% (110 votes). At the Brisbane election night party on March 24, SA ...

19. ‘Women’s rights are human rights’

    Feminism Magan-djin/Brisbane "Women's rights are human rights!" was the theme of ... a rally and march held in Brisbane on March 5 to celebrate 100 years of International Women's Day ... (IWD). About 100 people rallied in Brisbane Square and later marched through city streets to Emma Miller ...

20. Rally calls for peace on Hiroshima Day

    Imperialism & war Jim McIlroy Magan-djin/Brisbane The annual Hiroshima Day rally and march, ... commemorating the US atomic bombing of the Japanese city of Hiroshima in 1945, was held in Brisbane on August 6. ... 100 people to Brisbane Square, to hear speakers, and singers, including the Trade Union Choir. Dr Sue ...

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