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Rally says Serco unfit to run detention centres
Refugees & migrants Jim McIlroy Magan-djin/Brisbane A protest for refugee rights outside the ... people attended the protest, which was organised by the Brisbane Refugee Action Collective (RAC). A RAC ... Australia July 29, 2011 889 Refugee rights protest, Brisbane, July 29. Photo: Jim McIlroy. News ...
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Hands off St Mary's Church!
Paul Benedek Meanjin/Brisbane "Archbishop [John] Bathersby must have solved all Brisbane ... Mary's parishioner told a 500-strong packed gathering at the South Brisbane church on August 25 in ...
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Queensland teachers strike for fair pay
Paul Benedek Meanjin/Brisbane Chants of "Hardest working, lowest paid: Bligh and Wilson, be ... ashamed!" rang out from 4000 teachers at the gates of state parliament on May 19. The Brisbane teachers were ... teachers at the Brisbane Convention Centre that, since the union campaign had begun, the QTU had a spike in ...
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Unions rally to stop Qld gov't sell-off
Dave Riley Meanjin/Brisbane Fifteen hundred trade unionists and supporters marched through the ... streets of Brisbane to state parliament on July 3 to oppose the ALP state government's planned ... fight against the privatisation of the Brisbane City Council bus service in the 1990s with community ...
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Cops will be watched
Mike Crook Meanjin/Brisbane On August 21, a new group, "Forcewatch", was launched to ... meeting took place in Brisbane's West End, a gathering area for homeless and Indigenous people. It is ... Brisbane news footage showing excessive police force, including the use of a Taser gun on a 16-year-old and ...
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Activists confront Pearson on support for NT intervention
Paul Benedek Meanjin/Brisbane Aboriginal rights supporters and environmental activists protested ... at the opening of the Brisbane Writers' Festival on September 9, where the keynote speaker was ... victims of racism, rather than the perpetrators. Watson was angry that the Brisbane Writers' Festival ...
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Sand mining to be phased out on Stradbroke Island
Environment Mining Jim McIlroy stradbroke island Magan-djin/Brisbane Sand mining on Stradbroke ... Island, offshore from Brisbane, will be phased out by 2027, under a new plan announced by the Queensland ... on the doorstep of Brisbane we will have a large national park, jointly managed by the indigenous ...
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Cleaners rally against Caruso
Jim McIlroy Meanjin/Brisbane Chants of, "Hey Brisbane, listen up; the cleaners are standing ... up!" and "Caruso workers´ rights, worth fighting for!" rang through the Brisbane CBD on June ...
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Don't dam the Mary River!
Jim McIlroy Meanjin/Brisbane Opponents of the proposed Traveston Crossing Dam on the Mary River, ... with the controversial plan, which it claims is necessary to provide water to the city of Brisbane ... meet the needs of the projected population of Brisbane", she writes. The protest against the dam ...
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LNP government goes after unions
Workers & unions Magan-djin/Brisbane Members of a number of unions rallied outside Brisbane ... health minister weeks beforehand. A byelection will be held in his North Brisbane seat. The magistrate ... the court in Brisbane. Photo: ETU Queensland & NT/Facebook. News ...
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After elections, prepare to fight Newman
Elections Liam Flenady 917 Australia Brisbane March 29, 2012 The day after the Queensland election ... absolute opposition to these parties. It stood in three electorates, South Brisbane, Sandgate and ... Brisbane in the March 24 Queensland elections.] Related articles Socialist Alliance vote rises in Qld. ...
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Socialist candidate wants to fight Qld’s return to Bjelke-Petersen days
Elections Meanjin/Brisbane Liam Flenady has been endorsed as the Socialist Alliance’s candidate in ... the April by-election for the South Brisbane seat of former ALP Queensland premier Anna Bligh. Flenady ... Socialist Alliance in the South Brisbane by-election on a platform of genuine, radical change. The Socialist ...
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Women rally for full equality, abortion rights
Feminism Rosa Louverture Magan-djin/Brisbane Hundreds of people donned as much green as they could ... find on March 10 and crammed into the Irish Murphy’s pub in Brisbane to start their celebrations for ... where performances of pro-woman poetry and music took place. Australia March 12, 2012 915 Brisbane ...
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Red and Green candidates discuss way forward
Elections Democracy Jim McIlroy Australian Greens Magan-djin/Brisbane At a September 7 Â鶹´«Ã½ ... progressive movements since the election. Bartlett was Greens candidate for the seat of Brisbane in the recent ... Labor in the central Brisbane region. Two-thirds of this loss went to the Greens, with around 85% going ...
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Deadly Dance draws a crowd
Indigenous Ewan Amyntikos Magan-djin/Brisbane The Aboriginal Rights Coalition (ARC) held the ...
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Queensland climate summit organises for action
Karl Miller 805 Brisbane August 2, 2009 To win the battle to stop climate change, climate ... Brisbane in October. Activists will also take part in a national climate convergence on Canberra in ... public event in Brisbane during the Copenhagen talks on December 12. A major network campaign to prevent ...
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Greenhouse solutions
Jim McIlroy 717 Brisbane July 14, 2007 "Governments will only act when they are forced to by ...
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QUT day of shame
Menessia Nagie 720 Brisbane August 4, 2007 On July 29, Queensland University of Technology staged ...
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Wicked Campers vans could be deregistered
Magan-djin/Brisbane Queensland Attorney-General Yvette D'Ath has announced plans to introduce legislation holding ... A Wicked Campers protest in Brisbane. News ...
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West End rally for community control over development
Absoe Magan-djin/Brisbane "We can't afford your units and we can't afford the bus; if you ... the Brisbane City Council and one of the organisers of the rally, Jonathan Sri, told the crowd that ...