Cheery
"My role will be to lead the cheer squad for the Australian team." — Prime Menzies John Howard, asked his plans during the Olympics.
Market failure
"The level of the dollar does not reflect the fundamentals of the Australian economy."
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BY ROSEMARIE GILLESPIE
Shane Warne, former vice captain of the Australian cricket team, on hearing of a complaint that he had sexually harassed an English woman, said: "If it had stayed private, it wouldn't have been a mistake".
The key word is
BY JOHN TOMLINSON
Scenes of Victorian Police in full riot gear clubbing S11 demonstrators sitting down on the roadway blend with sound bites of a leading e-technology spokesperson claiming that S11 protesters were the real enemies of the poor in
MELBOURNE — On September 13, a peaceful demonstration by people with disabilities stopped the city's trams for two hours. Eighty people who use wheelchairs and their allies, supporters and advocates were there. The blockade was organised by the
BY NICOLA BULLARD
The International Monetary Fund's new managing director's intention to "drive change from within the institution rather than have it imposed from outside" does not inspire confidence, given the fund's dismal record of reform so
Mates always
No matter where you go within the four walls of Australia, the games will be upon you. The nation is saturated. "I still call Australia home" has moved in for the duration, occupying musical fragments inside the head of every mother's
BY BRONWEN BEECHEY
ADELAIDE — Refugees on trial for their involvement in August protests at the Woomera Immigration Detention Centre have been remanded in custody for a further month, following a court hearing here on September 22.
After being
BY SIMON BUTLER
The opening ceremony of the Sydney Olympic Games portrayed a shorthand version of Australian history that international visitors and news services would find easy to digest, even if a little bizarre. Aboriginal performers gave way
BY ZANNY BEGG
SYDNEY — Fifty people gathered at the Newtown Neighbourhood Centre on September 20 to assess the movement for indigenous rights in the wake of the small and divided protests coinciding with the opening of the Olympics on September
A Cuban photographer whose picture of Che Guevara became the world's most famous revolutionary image won substantial damages on September 14, after the portrait was used in a British advertisement for vodka.
Alberto Diaz Gutierrez, 72, went to the
BY BEA BREAR
HOBART — "What really happened at S11" was the theme of a September 19 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly public forum and multimedia extravaganza put together by Resistance and Democratic Socialist Party activists returned from the Melbourne
The raids on two houses by the Australian Federal Police, searching for information on who leaked secret files on East Timor, have shown yet again the real basis of Australian foreign policy: lying to the Australian people and to the world.
The
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