Excuses for Cuba
I am a regular reader of Â鶹´«Ã½, primarily because I support the causes you support, and secondly because I find it an antidote to the mush we get from the so-called mainstream media.
However, I must take issue in the
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BY MAREE KENNY
"We get this guy out of bed early in the morning...he clings on to the bedstead. My job is to unwind his fingers. Struggling, Shouting. He won't go."
These words, spoken by an officer employed at Sydney's Villawood detention centre
But no banned weapons
"I am absolutely convinced with time we'll find out that they did have a weapons program." — Emperor George Bush II, June 9.
Friends only in high places
"I talked about the visit to Poland and to Russia, where we've got
BY DALE MILLS
There have been more sensational revelations about British state-sponsored terrorism in Northern Ireland following the publication on April 17 of an official report — by Metropolitan Police chief Sir John Stevens — that found that
BY GRAHAM WILLIAMS
MELBOURNE — More than 600 manufacturing companies were hit by a 24-hour stop work on June 12. The action was initiated a week earlier by a shop-stewards meeting of the Victorian branch of the Australian Manufacturing Workers
BY DOUG LORIMER
When Australian Federal Police raided the homes of 10 Iranian Australians on June 3, the AFP agents carried warrants authorising them to seize information relating to refugees' rights organisations and the Mujaheddin-e-Khalq (MEK),
BY TIM GOODEN
GEELONG — On June 11, 100 people attended a public meeting convened by Gavin O'Connor, ALP MP member for the federal seat of Corio, to hear speakers talk about defending Medicare.
The meeting was addressed by Australian Nursing
BY EVA CHENG
When the world's six top business clubs unite to call on the eight most powerful governments to help breathe new life into global trade talks, you can be sure those negotiations have hit a rock.
The European Round of Industrialists,
BY JON LAND
NEWCASTLE — A bunch of local and national musicians are banding together to put on a huge fundraising event at the Civic Theatre on June 29 for War Child, an organisation that raises awareness of the struggle for survival facing
BY CHRISTINE HOWES
Chances are, if you happen into a library or government building around Brisbane, there will be a painting, mural or sculpture depicting some aspect of Aboriginal life or portrait of an Aboriginal person.
Chances are also high
The Morris McMahon picket has entered its 14th week. Community pickets are being held at the factory gate every Thursday morning at 6.30am, 34 Arncliffe St, Arncliffe.
From Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly, June 18, 2003.
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ADELAIDE — Seventy people attended the launch of the Children of the Gulf War photographic exhibition at the University of Adelaide on June 10. The display features photos by Takashi Morizumi. Former Baghdad-based "human shield" Ruth Russell told
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