BY ALISON DELLIT
Avoiding Pauline Hanson these days is an impossible task. Her face looms from the mainstream papers every day and then pops up again on the TV news at night. Her image is more prevelant than any other politician in the corporate
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The bombardment of Baghdad by US and British warplanes on February 16 proves that "George W. Bush's administration is maintaining the US government's bloody policy against the Iraqi masses", a statement issued by the politburo of the Worker Communist
BY DANNY FAIRFAX
Che Guevara? He's that pop star, isn't he?
All right, so not many people would really confuse Ernesto "Che" Guevara for a pop star, but there are lots of people who don't know more about him than his iconic image, which nowadays
BY JIM McILROY
BRISBANE — Panic is sweeping the Liberal-National Coalition around the country after the crushing ALP victory in the February 17 Queensland state elections.
As 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly goes to print, the Labor Party has won 66 out of a
BY DICK NICHOLS
MEXICO CITY — The leaders of the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN), headed by Subcomandante Marcos, are to emerge from Chiapas, the southernmost Mexican state where they led their famous 1994 uprising of the region's
Labor's 'promises' are rather slippery, to say the least — pinning down exactly what it will do is a bit like trying to nail jelly to a wall.
Dairy deregulation: Labor will not re-regulate the industry. A Beazley government would review the Dairy
BY NORM DIXON
The February 16 bombing of Baghdad by US and British warplanes was a calculated signal by US President George W. Bush's regime that it will continue - and escalate - the genocidal war against the Iraqi people begun by the US
BY GAIL LORD
PARRAMATTA — After staging the first International Women's Day march and rally in Parramatta for 30 years in 2000, feminists in Sydney's western suburbs are organising an even bigger IWD action on March 8 with the theme, "Women
The Full Montezuma: Around Central America and the Caribbean with the Girl Next DoorBy Peter MooreBantam Books 2000
Reviewed by Jackie Coleman
Australian travel writer, Peter Moore's The Full Montezuma, is an account of a six-month overland trip
Or a new system
"When you try all the tools in your toolbox and they don't work, then you have to try a new tool." — US Treasury secretary Paul O'Neill on attempts to revive the Japanese economy. He didn't suggest what the "'new tool" might be.
BY MARCUS PABIAN& TONY ILTIS
MELBOURNE — About 300 people packed the Trades Hall auditorium on February 20 to oppose the federal government's policy of imprisoning refugees. The meeting, organised by the Refugee Action Collective, demanded that
BY PATRICK BONDÂ
JOHANNESBURG — If you had a choice, which city would you choose to
host the 2002 “World Summit on Sustainable Development” — also known as
Rio+10 — in which 60,000 delegates will jaw-jaw about the world's social
and
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