Stop CSG _- Smokin' hot day out at Jondaryan! next mtg Feb 26th

Hi everyone

Just a short report back from the Lock The Gate rally and march at Jondaryan.

It was a fantastic day, and fantastically hot, at 39°C! I estimated about 500 people in attendance, a whopping great crowd for a spot 2.5 hours drive from a major city.

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at Tuesday, February 21, 2012
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Election campaign expands to Charters Towers

By Jim McIlroy, Qld state co-convenor

The Queensland Socialist Alliance state election campaign is starting to expand, with the decision by the Branch Co-ordinating Committee to endorse Jason Briskey to run for the seat of Dalrymple in northern Queensland. Dalrymple includes Charters Towers, and sections of the Atherton Tableland, west of Cairns.

Jason, 28, a single father and communications worker, has previously run for the ALP.

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Film Screening Budrus March 17th

Justice for Palestine is proud to present as part of The 8th Annual Israeli Apartheid Week
Film Screening Budrus
Directed by Julia Bacha  Film length: 70 min.

March 17 CEPU Building
41 Peel Street  South Brisbane. 2pm
Entry by donation
 

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at Tuesday, February 21, 2012
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Rally, march against coal mine at Jondaryan

By Jim McIlroy

JONDARYAN -- Several hundred people rallied and marched at Jondaryan, on the Darling Downs west of Toowoomba, on February 20, to protest moves to expand the New Hope coal mine at nearby Acland. Speakers at the rally included an unusual range of backgrounds, including radio shock jock Alan Jones, maverick federal MP Bob Katter, Greens Senator Larissa Waters and local farmers. The rally was chaired by Lock the Gate Alliance president Drew Hutton.

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Pokies: no net benefit to the community from these destructive machines

From: Mike Crook
To: Bayside Star Editorial

Every few weeks we get a press release from Local MP Vicky Darling announcing a new grant to a local community group from the “Jupiters” or the “Community Benefit” funds. That these grants are welcome there is no doubt as other government funding is rarely available for these sort of community projects. But, these grants come at a cost and increasingly it is problem gamblers that are paying the costs. 

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