A mock trial of David Hicks held in front of PM John Howard's office on August 26 was organised by the Canterbury Bankstown Peace Group and Justice for Hicks and Habib Campaign.
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The Queensland Labor government has suffered its first major electoral setback since its massive win in the February 2004 state election. In by-elections held on August 20, the ALP lost two "safe" seats in the Brisbane region, Chatsworth and Redcliffe, with swings of 13.8% and 10% respectively.
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BRISBANE — On November 27, 200 people marched through city streets demanding an end to uncontrolled land clearing in Queensland. The marchers rallied outside the state parliament on the last day of sitting for the year. At the
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BRISBANE — On November 17, maintenance workers who had been contracted to the Patrick stevedoring company set up a "community protest camp" opposite the wharf at Fishermen's Island, Port of Brisbane, to protest victimisation of
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Jim Cairns, the most prominent leader of the mass protests in the early 1970s against Australia's involvement in the US war against Vietnam and standard-bearer of the Victorian ALP parliamentary left of his generation, died on
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GLASGOW — Six weeks after the Scottish Socialist Party increased its representation in the Scottish Parliament from one to six MSPs, the SSP's network for young people — Scottish Socialist Youth (SSY) — held its second
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BY JIM MCILROY & ROBYN MARSHALL LIMA — The entire cabinet of Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo resigned on June 25, amid rising social tensions which threaten to bring down Toledo himself. This follows the refusal of his party, the Peru
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BY JIM McILROY& ROBYN MARSHALL LIMA — Thousands of workers marched through the streets here, and in other Peruvian cities, on June 3 to protest against the declaration of a state of emergency by the government of President Alejandro Toledo, and
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Members of the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) have voted by 61% to 39% in favour of a resolution from the union's Centrelink Section Council to endorse a new enterprise bargaining agreement, which will now be put to an
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BRISBANE There are now two superpowers in the world the imperial mafia [in Washington] and the anti-war and global justice movements worldwide, William Blum, US author, journalist and radical commentator and former US
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BRISBANE — I have recently experienced a serious operation within the public health system of Queensland. After a period of angina I was referred for cardiac investigation to the Prince Charles hospital in the northern suburbs of
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BRISBANE Two-thousand people gathered in the Roma Street Forum on November 3 for a lively rally opposing any war on Iraq. Demonstrators came from far and wide, from Ipswich to the Gold and Sunshine coasts. The protest