Bill Mason

  • Bus drivers to walk out over cuts

    Bus drivers to walk out over cutsBRISBANE — Bus drivers employed by Brisbane City Council are preparing to take strike action to protest against threatened cuts to jobs, pay and conditions. The workers rallied in King

  • Cairns wharfies win 'for all unions'

    Cairns wharfies win 'for all unions'BRISBANE — The victory of the waterside workers in Cairns in the week ending September 19 was a win "for the Maritime Union of Australia and for all unions", MUA spokesperson Col Davies

  • CSDA workers campaign for new agreement

    CSDA workers campaign for new agreementWorkers in the Commonwealth Services Delivery Agency, now renamed Centrelink, are meeting on September 22-23 to discuss the next move in their campaign for a new agency agreement. They

  • Bus drivers fight attack

    Bus drivers fight attackBRISBANE — Bus drivers here are mounting a campaign to defend their jobs, wages and conditions in the face of a concerted attack by their employer, the ALP-run Brisbane City Council. Demands by the

  • Hinchinbrook protesters face vigilante threats

    Hinchinbrook protesters face vigilante threatsBRISBANE — The Queensland Council for Civil Liberties has called for a police investigation into alleged threats against environmentalists protesting against the Port

  • Queensland government slips deeper into turmoil

    BRISBANE — The Queensland Coalition government is sinking, with a motion of no confidence in Liberal attorney-general Denver Beanland rocking state parliament, and revelations of an alleged police and judicial cover-up of

  • CPSU rank and file meet

    CPSU rank and file meetBRISBANE — Community and Public Sector Union members met in the City Hall on July 16 and voted against the national management committee's (NMC) move to dump the union's campaign for an Australian

  • US black activist defies deportation threat

    US black activist defies deportation threatBRISBANE — "Racism is an international phenomenon", former US Black Panther Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin told a meeting at the Opal Centre on July 16, as he continued his speaking tour of

  • Howard loses bid to silence US Panther

    BRISBANE — This is "a great day for Australia in terms of civil rights", visiting US former Black Panther Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin told a media conference here on July 11, after his release from jail. Earlier that day, the

  • Youth reject Hanson's racist push

    BRISBANE — "Young people in Australia will overwhelmingly reject Pauline Hanson's attempt to set up a One Nation youth wing", according to Zanny Begg, Brisbane organiser of the socialist youth organisation Resistance. "Hanson's

  • TWU truck ban wins pay rises

    TWU truck ban wins pay risesBRISBANE — Nearly 20 transport companies in Queensland have agreed to pay wage increases of 11%, in the face of nationwide black bans by the Transport Workers Union on employers who refuse to pay

  • TAFE workers rally in Brisbane

    TAFE workers rally in Brisbane@box text intro = BRISBANE — More than 800 Technical and Further Education staff rallied in the Roma Street Forum here on May 28 to protest against the Borbidge government's refusal to