Bill Mason

  • ACF slams Borbidge over Hinchinbrook

    ACF slams Borbidge over HinchinbrookBRISBANE — The Australian Conservation Foundation has slammed Premier Rob Borbidge over a letter he sent to federal Environment Minister Senator Robert Hill demanding an end to World Heritage

  • Protests against war games

    BRISBANE — Early next month, antiwar protesters are planning to converge on the Shoalwater Bay military training area near Rockhampton in Queensland to protest "Operation Tandem Thrust", a joint US-Australian war game involving

  • Socialists run for Brisbane City Council

    BRISBANE — The Democratic Socialists are running two candidates in the March 15 election for the Brisbane City Council — Kathy Newnam for the ward of Central and Coral Wynter for the ward of Dutton Park. The DS election manifesto

  • Queensland act 'legitimises' low wages

    Queensland act 'legitimises' low wagesBRISBANE — Unions claimed on January 30 that the passage of the Borbidge government's industrial relations legislation that day had "legitimised" Queensland's position as the nation's

  • Young Libs attack de facto families

    Young Libs attack de facto familiesBRISBANE — "The Queensland Young Liberals have shown themselves to be political dinosaurs over their attack on the rights of de facto couples and their children", Kathy Newnham, Brisbane acting

  • DSS unionists vote on agency campaign

    DSS unionists vote on agency campaignUnion members in the Department of Social Security around the country have been holding meetings to discuss the way forward in their campaign to protect public service jobs and conditions in the

  • Police corruption probe: CJC strikes back

    BRISBANE — The Criminal Justice Commission, under serious attack from the Queensland Coalition government on several fronts, has struck back with the establishment of a public inquiry into allegations of police involvement in

  • Queensland coal miners' victory

    Queensland coal miners' victoryBRISBANE — Capricorn Coal management agreed in an Industrial Relations Commission hearing on January 22 to reinstate a sacked union shop steward at the company's central Queensland German Creek

  • 'Fight Racism Dinner'

    'Fight Racism Dinner'BRISBANE — "My thanks go to Resistance for their support for East Timor and the East Timorese people", Leila Corte-Real, a representative of the Timorese community in Brisbane, told a Fight Racism Dinner held

  • Beanland under fire in anti-discrimination row

    Beanland under fire in anti-discrimination rowBRISBANE — Queensland attorney-general and justice minister Denver Beanland has accused the sacked head of the joint federal-state Human Rights and Equal Opportunities Commission,

  • Report slams black health crisis

    Report slams black health crisisBRISBANE — The disastrous state of the health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Queensland has been underlined by a state government "status" report on health matters released on

  • Ban on homosexual foster parents

    Ban on homosexual foster parentsBRISBANE — Queensland Council for Civil Liberties president Ian Dearden has accused the state Coalition government of breaching the state's own anti-discrimination legislation by proposing to ban