The Guardian • Brisbane
Issue #2045
Peace is possible
The CPA Brisbane Branch together with Australian Solidarity with Latin America (ASLA) held a successful collaborative event on Saturday 11th March to celebrate and commemorate...
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Issue #2067
GET RAUKUS NO AUKUS
The above slogan resounded on the streets of South Brisbane as the ALP conference came to town. The plans of Antony Albanese and Richard Marles...
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Issue #2061
Sky News
On 29th June Alexander Voltz of Sky News attacked the Palaszczuk government for wanting to change the name of Brisbane and its main streets to...
Read more“From the River to the Sea”, Meanjin rises for Palestine
Members of the Communist Party of Australia Queensland Branch attended a rally demanding an end to the occupation of Palestine by Israel.
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Issue #1956
REPORT: Brisbane International Women’s Day 2021
The 2021 IWD event for the Brisbane branch of the CPA was held as a joint activity with ASLA (Australian Solidarity with Latin America) on 7th March at the Redbrick Hotel in Brisbane.
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Issue #2073
‘The Fate of Food’ by Amanda Little
Is new technology the solution to feeding the world? In The Fate of Food: What We’ll Eat in a Bigger, Hotter, Smarter World Amanda Little...
Read moreAustralian war profiteers face backlash from peace activists
Anti-war activists in and around the Brisbane region flocked together this week to protest Land Forces.
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Issue #2035
CPA National School – Brisbane
In November, the Brisbane Branch held its CPA National Party School. It began with a Trivia night on Friday, at the Labour Trades Hall in...
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Issue #2039
Invasion Day rallies demand “Treaty before Voice”
As many as 100,000 people took to the streets with rallies and marches in every state and territory on Invasion Day, 26th January. Protestors held...
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Issue #2125
Hands off! (Metaphorically and Literally)
Sunshine Coast CPA branch members attended a rally in Magandjin/Brisbane, along with different groups from the Greens, Young Labor members, Trotskyists, Anarchists, as well as...
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Issue #2022
CPA lunch at the Village Pickle
After many weeks of planning, organising, and discussion, the Brisbane branch gathered at the Village Pickle, a café in the country town of Nambour, north...
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Issue #2108
Jim Chalmers: ‘you can bank on us’
Australian Treasurer, Jim Chalmers’, has announced that the government will inject $6.3 million for initiatives to bolster Anti-Money Laundering and Counter Terrorism laws in the...
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Issue #2115
No TERFs on Queensland turf!
On 25 August, members of the Sunshine Coast branch travelled to Magandjin/Brisbane in support of the local Trans community. The event was a counter-protest by...
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Issue #2046
Australian-DPRK Friendship and Cultural Society 2023 AGM
On the 24th February 2023, the Australian-DPRK Friendship and Cultural Society Brisbane Branch met for their Annual General Meeting. Members from across Queensland, the Gold...
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Issue #2203
Brisbane transgender rights protest
In early July some comrades and I went to the Transgender Rights Counter-Protest in Brisbane, where over 1,000 people showed up to protest One Nation...
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Issue #2173
Queensland transport: so many gave so much
There is a long history of union activism and militancy in Queensland transport. I recently attended a 100th anniversary event for the Brisbane city council...
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Issue #2072
CPA members rally against transphobia in Brisbane
Several members of the Sunshine Coast Branch travelled to Brisbane on 14th September, to meet with a few non-member friends of the party at this...
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Issue #2151
Queensland teachers rally
Hundreds of teachers attended the Qld Teachers Union (QTU) rally outside Parliament House, Brisbane on 24 June. Premier David Crisafulli’s LNP government says teachers will...
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Issue #2151
CFMEU QLD – Two days of marches and demonstrations
On 18 June the High Court rejected the CFMEU’s appeal to overturn the Albanese government’s decision to place the union’s Construction & General division into...
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Issue #2153
UWU strike at The Star Brisbane Casino
Hundreds of United Workers Union (UWU) workers at The Star Brisbane Casino, owned by Star Entertainment, have initiated a protected strike in response to the...
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Issue #2156
Silent protest at Brisbane Pride Memorial Garden
On 26 July myself and another comrade attended a memorial service, mourning members from the LGBTQIA+ community that have passed. We were there as part...
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Issue #2156
Magandjin/Brisbane People’s Pride
On the 19 July, members of both the Sunshine, and Brisbane branches attended the Magandjin Peoples Pride event. The event began with a rally and...
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Issue #2054
50th Anniversary of the foundation of the Polisaro Front
On the 10th May CPA Sunshine Coast Branch members travelled to Brisbane to take part in a stand out in front of the ADF Offices....
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Issue #2177
Invasion Day
Boorloo (Perth) CPA comrades joined the crowd of nearly 2,000 protesters at the Boorloo invasion day rally. The speakers were impassioned and engaging, but 40...
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Issue #2082
Convoy to Chalmers
In the first demonstration in Logan City in Brisbane in support of Palestinians, an estimated 1500 to 2000 people, and hundreds of cars have surrounded...
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Issue #2153
DINGO
Australian unions have won the right for thousands of workers employed in McDonald’s fast-food outlets to bargain together to improve their pay and conditions. A...
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Issue #2149
Queensland: consultation fail
The Minjerribah Moorgumpin Elders in Council (MMEIC) are concerned that the Port of Brisbane has failed to conduct adequate consultation on the environmental and cultural...
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Issue #2201
Brisbane Ferry workers take action
Workers on Brisbane’s Ferries have made a collective decision to take lawful Protected Industrial Action after RiverCity Ferries left them no other option. Despite a...
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Issue #2117
Land Force Expo: state, capital give three cheers for war profiteers
The Land Forces International Defence Expo has shown with appalling clarity the lengths that the state will go in order to support the right of...
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