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BY DR MARTIN CROTTY& DR RAYMOND EVANS The federal government has committed this country to join the US and Britain in a legally dubious, highly immoral, massive unprovoked military attack on Iraq. The lessons of history, we are told, are that
BY PIP HINMAN Scenes of exuberant "liberated" Iraqis and Kurds have quickly given way to scenes of concern and anger that the US "liberators" are preparing to be occupiers. Even the Sydney Morning Herald's pro-war correspondent Paul McGeough has
Pensioner protests war on Iraq BY KAMALA EMANUEL LAUNCESTON - Anti-war activist Bob Bensemann cancelled his pension on March 24 in reaction against the governmentÂ’s treatment of refugees and its support for war on Iraq. In his letter to
BY MARGARITA WINDISCH MELBOURNE — On April 8, the County Court was told that all matters relating to the Skilled Engineering and Johnson Tiles cases between the prosecution and all of the 15 unionists except Craig Johnston had been settled. The
BY ERIN KILLION Jane Keogh is a refugee-rights activist in the Canberra Refugee Action Committee. After visiting Baxter detention center in January, she spoke to 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly about the conditions in the centre. Keogh met 41 people in the
A monstrous lie On April 8, the Pentagon revealed that an Iraqi factory near Hindiya, south of Baghdad, which the US invaders had originally told journalists was a facility for producing the nerve agent sarin, was, in fact, a
Weapons for mass destruction... "We are talking about finding a site of possible weapons of mass destruction." — US Army's 3rd Infantry Division spokesperson Major Ross Coffman on the March 23 discovery of a chemical factory south of Baghdad,
BY SARAH STEPHEN Former Australian diplomat Tony Kevin has this month been awarded international whistleblower of the year by the respected UK-based organisation Index on Censorship. The citation for Kevin's award reads: "The former Australian
BY PAMELA CURR This could also be titled "What every man woman and child can be subjected to in the detention camps under the migration act". Read it, and then ask yourself how you would feel if, in order to visit a friend in another detention
BY ALISON DELLIT More than 30,000 people joined Palm Sunday marches for peace on April 13. The largest marches were the 15,000-strong protest in Sydney and a 10,000-strong protest in Melbourne. In Adelaide, 3000 marched, 1500 in Brisbane,

Two-and-a-half-thousand university students from campuses around Australia took to the streets on April 10 in opposition to the governments proposed "reforms" to higher education.

BY EMMA CLANCY The last few months have been a period of political awakening for thousands of teenagers. Through protesting against the war on Iraq, many young people have gotten involved in political activity for the first time. But their