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1. Fight against coal seam gas mining heats up in Qld

   Mining Coal Climate crisis Environment Jim McIlroy Magan-djin/Brisbane "This is the battle ... Great Artesian Basin, on April 14 in Brisbane. The forum, sponsored by �鶹��ý Weekly, also heard ... build a broad alliance to stop the CSG takeover of rural land. "An alliance of groups in Brisbane ...

2. Qld unions to rally against ABCC

   Jim McIlroy Meanjin/Brisbane "Construction unions across Australia are running the Rights On ... there is a rally in Brisbane calling for the abolition of the ABCC, and in support of Victorian union ... According to the August 14 edition of Brisbane's Courier-Mail, a Building Labourers Federation worker ...

3. 'Shame, Anna, shame!'

   Adam Baker Meanjin/Brisbane Public sector workers across Queensland demonstrated in large numbers ... Gladstone and Brisbane. Fifteen unions have joined forces for the first time in 20 years on a state issue. ... cleaners, teachers and paramedics. The lunchtime rally in Brisbane attracted 3000 workers. They assembled at ...

4. Socialists to contest QLD elections

   Dave Riley Meanjin/Brisbane With the Queensland ALP state government rumoured to announce an ... inner urban seat of South Brisbane, standing against state Premier Anna Bligh, the SA candidate is ... Indigenous activist Sam Watson. Watson is well known in Brisbane as one of the main community spokespersons ...

5. Vote socialist for Sandgate!

   Dave Riley Meanjin/Brisbane Mike Crook says he became radicalised by seeing the way construction ... when he moved to Queensland in 1989 and joined the ALP. In Brisbane, Crook worked in the Department of ... Kilcoy", he said, "and one night someone backed a truck into the shop." After moving to Brisbane ...

6. Rebel priest sacked by archbishop

   Dave Riley Meanjin/Brisbane Although the parish priest of St Mary's Catholic Church in South ... Brisbane, Father Peter Kennedy, was summarily sacked on February 6, the parish's 1000-strong ... of South Brisbane and leading Indigenous activist, is a long-time supporter of St Mary's. ...

7. Abortion law raises its ugly head

   Ewan Amyntikos Meanjin/Brisbane A 19-year-old Cairns woman faces up to 14 years in jail after ... Pro-choice group Children by Choice says the cost of an abortion in Queensland ranges from $300 in Brisbane ... woman herself for procuring an abortion. Naomi Rodgers-Falk, from Brisbane's Pro-Choice Action ...

8. Alyawarr Protest House film draws crowds

   Indigenous Ewan Amyntikos Ampilatwatja Magan-djin/Brisbane More than 60 people attended ... Brisbane's premiere screening of a new documentary by Sydney's Actively Radical TV about the ... Brisbane Aboriginal Rights Coalition (ARC) and raised funds for a Justice Bus Trips to Alice Springs, to ...

9. Indigenous activist slams major parties' 'race to the bottom' on refugees

   Magan-djin/Brisbane Brisbane Murri activist and Socialist Alliance Senate candidate Sam Watson made the following ... contribution to our community, in Brisbane and around the country. New generations of refugees and immigrants ...

10. Abortion reform on agenda in Queensland

    Jim McIlroy Coral Wynter Meanjin/Brisbane A report in the October 29 Brisbane Courier Mail ... government first got elected in 1992, Katrina Barben and I, as representatives of the Brisbane International ...

11. Man dies after QLD police Taser him

    12. Police say they were trying to arrest the man in Brandon, north Queensland. The June 12 Brisbane ... Terry O'Gorman, vice-president of the Queensland Council of Civil Liberties, told the Brisbane ...

12. Truss picketed at Centrelink

    Truss picketed at Centrelink By Bill Mason BRISBANE — Around 20 members of the Community and ... Public Sector Union and their supporters picketed the Centrelink Brisbane Call Centre on February 23 to ...

13. Peace activists freed from US jails

    Peace activists freed from US jails By Bill Mason BRISBANE — Ciaron O'Reilly and Moana Cole, ... peace activists from Brisbane, have been released from prisons in the US after serving year-long ...

14. MUA wins another round in Hutchison Ports fight

    Australia Port Botany Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) Hutchison Ports Port of Brisbane DP World Patricks ... Port Botany and Port of Brisbane being reinstated for a further six weeks from August 31. Workers at ... Vodafone offices in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane on August 26. Vodafone is 50% owned by Hutchison. ...

15. Left poet launches book

    Art & culture Meanjin/Brisbane Jim Sharp, a well-known veteran of the left and labour ...

16. Protest: Sri Lankan ambassador ‘wanted for war crimes’

    International solidarity Jim McIlroy Meanjin/Brisbane Protesters picketed a December 1 event in ...

17. Afghan war: Veterans speak out

    Imperialism & war Jim McIlroy War on Afghanistan (2001–2021) Magan-djin/Brisbane Veterans ...

18. Protest hits powerline threat to koalas

    Environment Jim McIlroy Koala Magan-djin/Brisbane “No powerlines through koala habitat”, was the ...

19. Floods show public insurance system needed

    Economy Environment Jim McIlroy Magan-djin/Brisbane The recent Queensland and Victorian floods ... stricken policyholders in Brisbane, leaving tens of thousands of flood victims uncovered and facing ... would likely be accepted. But many flood-affected Brisbane residents would be abandoned. The SMH said: ...

20. BDS protesters say they won’t be silenced, intimidated

    Middle East Magan-djin/Brisbane Justice for Palestine Brisbane released the statement below on ... August 29. * * * Brisbane supporters of the boycott, sanctions and divestment campaign (BDS) have pledged ... their resistance.” Australia August 28, 2011 893 Protest outside Max Brenner in Brisbane's South ...

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