Living conditions for Iraqi women deteriorated dramatically after the 1991 Gulf War. US-enforced sanctions have wrecked Iraq's economy, depriving people of everything from medical supplies and school textbooks to the European beauty products that are
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SUSAN PRICE
“Elections results don't change very much for ordinary people.” Surprisingly,
this comment was made by Lisa Macdonald, a candidate in the March 23 NSW
state elections. But perhaps her comment was not so surprising, since
BY ALEX MILNE
MELBOURNE — On February 4, librarians employed at the State Library of Victoria, staged a one-day strike in support of their demand for a 6% pay rise and worker representation on the SLV board.
SLV librarians are among the lowest
The Algebra of Infinite JusticeBy Arundhati Roy
Flamingo, 2002305 pages, $21.95 (pb)
REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON
"How many dead Iraqis will it take to make the world a better place?", asks a waspishly angry Arundhati Roy in The Algebra of Infinite
BY MATT PRESTON
GLASGOW — Tens of thousands of Scots anticipate giving British Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair a warm welcome on February 15. Scotland is set to become one of the pivotal points of protest against the impending war on Iraq.
BY NICOLE COLSON
"Many people outside the country believe that Afghan women and girls have had their rights restored. It's just not true" — that's the conclusion of Human Rights Watch official Zama Coursen-Neff, co-author of a report released in
Depriving the Yorta Yorta of land
BY EMMA MURPHY
On December 12, the legal system once again failed the Indigenous peoples of Australia. Since the High Court dismissed the Yorta Yorta people's appeal against a Federal Court decision that they no
BY MICHAEL KARADJIS
HANOI — The United States Department of Commerce (DoC) ruled on January 24 that Vietnam is "dumping" catfish on the US market. The ruling was based on a decision made by the commerce department last November that Vietnam is
BY ROHAN PEARCE
"Ladies and gentlemen, these are not assertions", US Secretary of State Colin Powell assured the UN Security Council on February 5. "These are facts, corroborated by many sources, some of them sources of the intelligence services of
BY
HEIDI GILL
CANBERRA — Six hundred people turned out on the evening of February
4 to watch a public debate in Old Parliament House entitled “Should Australia
go to war in Iraq?”.
Chaired by Radio National's Late Night Live host Phillip
BY MARY MERKENICH
MELBOURNE — Opponents of the Howard government's policy of mandatory detention of "illegal" refugees are planning to converge on the Baxter detention centre outside Port augusta over the Easter weekend, April 18-21.
Baxter is
BY GRANT COLEMAN
WOLLONGONG — On February 8, the people of this working-class city mobilised in numbers never before seen in the Illawarra, exceeding even the protests against the Vietnam War. More than 5000 people came out to demonstrate their
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