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BY BILL MASON BRISBANE — The Queensland Labor government's department of state development has given formal notice to protesters camped outside the site of the Narangba nuclear irradiation plant, now under construction, that they will be
BY MICHAEL BULL MELBOURNE — For the second time, unions and the community will rally in support of Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union state secretary Martin Kingham, who is facing contempt charges against the Royal Commission into
BY PIP HINMAN US President George Bush's "alliance of the willing" to attack Iraq is looking pretty thin: the governments of Britain's Tony Blair and John Howard don't make up for Washington's general lack of allies. Now, with Howard's popularity
Dispute at stadium BRISBANE — Completion of the $350 million Lang Park stadium redevelopment in time for the Brisbane vs Newcastle rugby league blockbuster in late May is in doubt because of a looming industrial dispute. Developers involved in
BY MADHAVEE INAMDAR The United States decided to use the 9/11 tragedy to reorganise the world. It has military bases on every continent. The largest of these is situated in one of the tiniest states: Qatar in the Persian Gulf. There are 189 member
PERTH — More than 2500 people rallied outside the Western Australian parliament on January 19 to oppose the war on Iraq and the “sea swap” agreement between the Australian and US governments. The rally was organised by the Fremantle
Human rights group Amnesty International has called on the US government to "end the legal black hole into which it has thrown hundreds of detainees in Guantanamo Bay" in Cuba. A statement issued by the Canadian section of AI on January 10 criticised
BY KIM BULLIMORE SYDNEY — The Sydney International Women's Day Collective, which has been meeting since November last year, has voted overwhelmingly to organise an IWD march and rally on March 8 around the theme of "Peace, Justice, Diversity,
BY VANNESSA HEARMAN MELBOURNE — Fivo Freitas is 28 years old, he sought asylum in Australia after leaving East Timor in 1999. Now he is preparing for his application for asylum-seeker status to be rejected once again by the Refugee Review
BY FEDERICO FUENTES BUENOS AIRES — Even before Lucio "Lucho" Gutierrez was inaugurated as president of Ecuador on January 15, he had made it very clear what he planned to do. "I am determined to change this nation or die trying", said Gutierrez
BY EVA CHENG Wang Fanxi died in Leeds, England, on December 30. Born in 1907, Wang became politically active during the anti-imperialist upsurge in China in the 1920s and participated in the revolutionary communist movement there for almost
BY JODY BETZIEN MELBOURNE — A showdown between the Victorian Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) and construction giant Grocon has been averted at the final hour. On January 19, a stop-work meeting of 600 Grocon workers