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Branch News - June 2026

Branch contemplates upcoming conferencesMembers at the recent June general meeting discussed key issues for the imminent national and state ALP conferences, due to be held this July and August, respectively. With delegates for both conferences in attendance, the Branchheard about efforts to strengthen the Party’s policy platform at the national and state level. Members discussed the importance…

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Branch News - May 2026

Annerley Labor’s May general meeting was jam packed with discussion on several policy matters, as both the national and state ALP conferences fast approach. The Branch adopted a resolution, sponsored by Labor Against War, that strongly condemned the US and Israeli war on Iran as an ‘illegal act of aggression against a sovereign nation’. Members called out Prime Minister Anthony Albanese for his…

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Branch puts focus on Council

Annerley Labor utilised its April general meeting to highlight the importance of local Council issues, in preparation for the next Brisbane City Council (BCC) elections due in March 2028. As part of the deliberations, the Branch adopted a resolution calling on the Party to devote time at the next State Conference, scheduled for August, to hold a dedicated forum to discuss BCC policy issues.…

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Albanese criticism devoid of facts

News Limited’s Kylie Lang continues her relentless tirade against the Labor federal government and ne’er is there an adverse response to her criticism published. She writes about waiting with bated breath to see if Anthony Albanese’s speech was going to thrust us into war in the Middle East. It has been made clear for several weeks that Australia, along with its non-US allies the UK, Canada,…

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Busy month for Annerley Labor

March 2026 has been a busy time for the Annerley Branch with several events held during the month. First up saw branch members help out in the annual Clean Up Australia Day, held Sunday 1 March. The Branch organised a site at Ekibin Park South in Annerley, with Hon Mark Bailey MP, Member for Miller, as a special helper (pictured). Clean Up Australia Day is the nation’s largest community-based…

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Here we go again

Those who believe the reign of terror is over in Iran are sadly mistaken. The terror will go on just perpetrated by someone else. Last month Donald Trump said he stood with the Iranian people when they rose up in protest and then he watched on while they were massacred in their thousands by the regime. Ayatollah Ali Khomeini had recently named Ali Larijani as his successor because although Trump…

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Migration, lies and the Coalition

The conservative commentariat is free to call the PM a liar, but what are the real facts about the Isis brides and migration? There are 11 women and 23 children involved. Those that are citizens are entitled by law to have an Australian passport unless ASIO and the security authorities have evidence that could preclude this from happening. To argue that the Albanese government would ignore the…

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Calls for support for Ukraine

Annerley Labor has called on the Federal Labor Government to act urgently to close exisiting sanction loopholes by which Australia has imported more than $3.5 billion in Russian oil, providing revenue that supports Russia’s war effort. Of concern to branch members is the failure of the current sanctions framework to stop Australia from inadverently helping Russia’s invasion, now in its fifth…

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Coalition: from Dominance to Disarray

News Limited columnist Joe Hildebrand is quite right when he says the implosion of the Coalition is not good for the country, because to make democracy viable we do need a functioning opposition. But it appears that the Coalition became so blasé about the extensive period they have had in power, that is, about two-thirds of the time since their inception in 1944, they believed their dominance…

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Hanson not the answer

When Adolf Hitler was dictating his inane antisemitic Mein Kampf in prison in 1924, people thought he was a joke. Ten years later he became Fuhrer of the Third Reich. Pauline Hanson is also considered by most as a short-sighted politician with plenty of grievances and no solutions besides her Trumpian call to stop immigration. There are many others that also use the Trumpian drain-the-swamp…

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The sad politics of a royal commission

Anthony Albanese has succumbed to enormous pressure initially driven by the media and then amplified by some politicians hell-bent on making political mileage out of a tragic event. Organised petitions around the country garnering influential support added to this pressure, as well as some of his colleagues saying to him that they thought this was the right thing to do. Not that his acceptance of…

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We need calm, not a commission

The Murdoch media presses for a royal commission into the tragic Bondi shooting. What has already become clear is that certain due processes were found to have been overlooked by ASIO and the police which potentially increased the probability of the tragedy happening that fateful day. At present the government’s stance is urgency and unity rather than delay and division. They urge that the…

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Branch News - December 2025

Branch organises 2025 Christmas Hamper Appeal Members of the Annerley Branch recently got behind the annual Micah Projects Christmas Hamper Appeal, by once again donating much needed funds and food items. The Christmas Hamper Appeal is an annual tradition that brings people together to support members of our community who are doing it tough. For many years, Micah Projects has partnered with…

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ALP Conference commits to additional progressive policies

The 60th ALP State Conference wrapped up recently, cementing a number of important policy platform changes as Queensland Labor prepares for the 2028 state election. The Conference, the first since the election loss last year, was an important opportunity to amend the state platform since it last met in 2023. In addition to a wide range of policy changes, several key resolutions were also adopted…

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Coalition fails on climate action (part 2)

Even blind Freddie can see that the Crisafulli government is paying only lip service to its so-called commitment to net zero. No sooner had Murray Watt landed significant environment reform which had been in limbo for five years, Crisafulli finds reason to criticise it because Watt was able to find common ground with the Greens by compromising on some issues but maintaining the essentials of…

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Coalition fails on climate change

It is apparent that the Coalition have learned nothing from their huge electoral defeat in May. The climate-denying voices of Tony Abbott and Barnaby Joyce still echo down the years as the federal opposition now rejects net zero. They may continue to obfuscate and play with the theme of ‘not now, maybe later’, but as history has shown in their heart of hearts, they do not want a bar of anything…

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Annerley Labor News - October 2025

Strong support for refugees ‘left in limbo’The Annerley Branch has given its support to a Queensland Labor for Refugees motion reaffirming its support for “the people of the ‘asylum legacy caseload’ who are left in limbo, and in transitory status”. In adopting the motion, the Branch has again expressed its belief that these people should be granted permanent residency. The motion calls on…

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