Cuban musician launches Brisbane tourBRISBANE — More than 100 people packed into the Resistance Centre here on June 25 to hear the brilliant percussion playing of award-winning Cuban musician Jacinto Herrera.
The Cuba
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Lawyers picket over watch-house scandalBRISBANE — "If these men in the City Watch-house were dogs, the RSPCA would close it in 12 hours", commented Salvation Army courts chaplain Major Bruce Buckmaster on June 10. "The
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Brisbane garbo strike endsBRISBANE — Northside Brisbane garbage trucks will carry canvas "beer stockings" to hold gifts from householders — including alcohol. This settlement has resolved an industrial dispute which
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Shoalwater sand mining dumpedBRISBANE — In what the mining industry has described as its biggest setback since the banning of mining at Coronation Hill in the Northern Territory, a federal government inquiry has recommended
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Police harass Wilderness Society 'koalas'"If the streets of Cairns are not safe for koalas, they're not really safe for human beings", responded Greg Sargent, branch secretary for the Wilderness Society, commenting on the
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CSIRO staff work inBRISBANE — The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation division of tropical and animal production facility at Long Pocket, on 7.2 hectares of prime riverfront land, is under threat of
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'Mass destruction in slow motion'BRISBANE — "When the war ends and the guns are silent, the mines remain", Overseas Service Bureau state representative Jenny Davidson told a public meeting here on May 19. Dr John Ward, NSW
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BRISBANE — New powers to allow police and security guards to forcibly move on "trouble-makers" at Brisbane South Bank were a return to the "police state tactics of the Bjelke-Petersen era", Susan Price and Ana Kailis said on May
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'Pro-women policies the issue'BRISBANE — "The main issue in the current debate in the ALP about more women MPs is not just how to get more women into parliament, but how to promote more pro-women policies", Democratic
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Squatters resist evictionBRISBANE — A group of young unemployed and homeless squatters have barricaded themselves inside an abandoned West End Housing Commission house to prevent the state government evicting them.
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Observer describes Salvadoran electionBRISBANE — Fraud on a massive scale disrupted the recent elections in El Salvador, Dr Coral Wynter, a member of an independent delegation of Australian observers, told a fundraising
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Mines dumping toxic waste, CJC toldBRISBANE — Queensland's biggest company, MIM, was guilty of contaminating thousands of hectares of the northern region, a state government environment officer told the Criminal Justice