BY
DICK NICHOLS
Since it was initiated several weeks ago by the Socialist Alliance,
the petition campaign to call on the opposition parties in the Senate to
block the 2003 federal budget by voting against all its military provisions
has
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BY PAUL PRITCHARD
HOBART — Deep in the forest, from the vantage point of a rickety bridge, spanning a lazy river black with tannin, some of the vegetation is as it would have appeared 60 million years ago.
Myrtle, sassafras, celery-top pine,
BY SUE BULL
GEELONG — As part of a series of regional report-backs about the outcomes of the royal commission into the building industry, union officials arrived in Geelong on April 15. Martin Kingham, state secretary of the Construction,
BY ANTHONY
BENBOW
PERTH — The WA Government is again bending to the wishes of the law-and-order
lobby and the business community, this time at the expense of young people,
especially Aboriginal young people.
On April 15, Premier Geoff
Since 9/11, thanks
to the implicit and explicit government and media propaganda that Islam
is the “new enemy” of the West, those Australians who are most visibly
Muslim — women who wear a headscarf (hijab) or full body covering
(chador) —
BY DOUG LORIMER
After several weeks of accusations from the White House and the Pentagon against the Syrian government of President Bashar al Assad — ominously similar to those used by Washington to justify its invasion of Iraq — on April 17 US
BY
SUE BOLTON
PERTH — Of the 392 adverse findings that the building industry royal
commission made against Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union,
two-thirds were directed against the Western Australian branch of the union.
Does
BY AMANDA ZIVCIC
Despite the hoopla surrounding ANZAC Day every year, very little attention is paid to how destructive war is to veterans, their families and the society they live in. In the last few years, studies have indicated that domestic
Hoping another US invasion?
"So, they [US officials] haven't been able to confirm reports he [Saddam Hussein] was taken to Tikrit, and then Mosul, and then hopefully to Syria." — Multi-millionaire NBC Today Show host Katie Curic, April 10.
He
BY ROBERTO JORQUERA
At an April 8 press conference in Havana, Cuban foreign
minister Felipe Perez Roque presented vouchers, bank receipts and photos demonstrating the truth behind the charges against 75 dissidents found guilty of conspiring with
BY IGGY KIM
SYDNEY — More than 100 people attended the launch of ATTAC (Action for a Tobin Tax to Assist the Citizen) Australia on April 9 at the Newtown Neighbourhood Centre. The Tobin Tax is a 1% levy on all international currency transactions
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