Allegations by asylum seekers of the use of cattle prods by the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) when boarding refugee boats, especially at the time of the children overboard scandal prior to the 2001 federal election, have again surfaced.
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Peter Boyle
We have become accustomed to the International Monetary Fund warning Third World governments about their foreign debt levels. The IMF doing the same to the world's richest and most powerful government, however, is a bit unusual.
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Norm Dixon
On January 4, while addressing British troops in Basra, British Prime Minister Tony Blair attempted to defend his government's participation in the US-led war against Iraq. In an embarrassing Freudian slip, Blair referred to "weapons of
Jim McIlroy, Brisbane
A snap Queensland election is underway. On January 13, Labor Premier Peter Beattie called the election for February 7, in a summer-holiday bid to take the heat out of the government's damaging problems over the abuse of foster
Due to an editing error, an article entitled "When right isn't quite right" in GLW #566 incorrectly used the word "coated" to describe depleted uranium munitions.
From 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly, January 21, 2004.
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