BY NICK RAWSON
The 21st Australia-New Zealand Work/Study Brigade will travel to Cuba in December. Organised annually by the Australia-Cuba Friendship Society, the brigade provides an opportunity for people to express solidarity with Cuba's struggle
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BY MAX LANE
JAKARTA — On October 13, the Indonesian armed forces (TNI) announced the cancellation of a November 6 visit to Australian Defence Force facilities in Perth by a TNI delegation. The decision was in response to the Australian
BY JANE BECKMAN
NEWCASTLE — NSW Health and Research Employees Association (HREA) branches throughout the Hunter region have unanimously condemned the NSW Labor government's decision to privatise new facilities to be built at the Newcastle Mater
BY DOUG LORIMER
At a White House press conference on October 10, US President George Bush announced new punitive measures against socialist Cuba, including new steps to enforce Washington's 41-year-old trade embargo against the island, stricter
BY KIM BULLIMORE
SYDNEY — Palestinian legislator and human rights activist Hanan Ashrawi is scheduled to receive the Sydney Peace Prize from NSW Premier Bob Carr on November 6 at Parliament House. Ashrawi, a long-time campaigner for the rights of
BY DOUG LORIMER
After weeks of haggling, France, Germany and Russia on October 16 finally voted in the UN Security Council for a US-sponsored resolution mandating the creation of a "multinational" occupation force in Iraq under US command.
While
Syria: Neither Bread Nor FreedomBy Alan GeorgeZed Books, 2003
REVIEW BY CHRIS SLEE
Israel's government on October 5 launched a missile attack on Syria, the first strike into Syrian territory in 30 years. US President George Bush immediately
BY TIM BYRNES
CANBERRA — Andrew Wilkie, the former senior intelligence officer at the centre of a storm following his resignation in protest at Prime Minister John Howard's government's stance on Iraq, admits to having a soft spot for Tamworth.
BY PIP HINMAN
Federal Labor leader Simon Crean has told Labor MPs that they should give US President George Bush a standing ovation when he finishes his address to the joint sitting of parliament on October 23.
Tim Gooden, assistant secretary of
BY DOUG LORIMER
With the United States and its allies facing an escalating guerrilla war of resistance to its occupation of Iraq, more and more people are starting to see similarities between the Iraq war and the US war in Vietnam in the 1960s and
BY ANTHONY BENBOW
PERTH — On October 10, 125,000 homes in Western Australia lost electricity when a computer fault caused the Collie power station to shut down for two-and-a-half hours. This followed widespread blackouts in the south-west area of
BY BOB GOULD
In 1966, the Vietnam War was still fairly popular, and the jingoistic patriotism of the previous period in Australia was still predominant. In this context, it is hard to understate the courageousness of federal Labor leader Arthur
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