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Equity is a high priority for Secular Party

Jan Bowman /30 January, 2014

Anne Reid of the Secular Party is an accountant who works in the Griffith suburb of West End and lives in nearby Yeronga. She was the Secular Party candidate in Griffith in 2013, polling 0.51 per cent of the vote. She told No Fibs that her engagement with the people of Griffith “is at the grassroots level Continue Reading →

Ebbs returns for second round

Jan Bowman /30 January, 2014

Inevitably in a two-party system, the media focus will be on the ALP and LNP candidates, and to a lesser extent The Greens. This is a pity, because voters can miss some very interesting issues that are often only prompted by the minor parties. Of the nine ‘other’ candidates, just two will be familiar from Continue Reading →

Measles alert for West End and Stradbroke Island

DokterW /30 January, 2014

Queensland Health has issued an alert about yet another measles case yesterday in Brisbane. In West End on 22 and 23 January an adult male visited numerous stores on Boundary St, including a barber shop. In the morning of 24 January he visited Coles Supermarket. Then the Stradbroke Barge at 5 pm. Metro South Health Continue Reading →

Protest marches divide the left

Geoff Ebbs /29 January, 2014

The community forum held at Jagera Hall on Tuesday to discuss the Queensland Government’s war on civil liberties generated passionate debate around the value of protest marches as a form of engendering change. Organised by the Cloudland Collective, the intent of the evening was to bring the experience of three activists from the seventies to Continue Reading →

Australians’ right to privacy will soon be strengthened

DokterW /28 January, 2014

Australian Government Office of the Australian Information Commissioner announced today, aptly on Data Privacy Day, that Australians will have their right to privacy strengthened on 12 March 2014. Australian Privacy Commissioner Timothy Pilgrim says in a press release the new privacy laws will strengthen peoples’ privacy rights in areas such as direct marketing, the disclosure Continue Reading →

Glasson bets on anti-tax stance

Jan Bowman /27 January, 2014

Having a Prime Minister as the sitting member drew significant attention to Griffith during the 2013 federal election, but there is a sense that this time around the eyes of the nation will be on Griffith with renewed interest, many seeing this by-election as the first test for Tony Abbott’s government. On one side of Continue Reading →