Doug Lorimer
Under the headline "3 million Iraqis under militia rule", the July 17 Houston Chronicle reported that rebel Iraqi Shiite leader Sayed Moqtada al Sadr's Madhi Army has taken control of Baghdad's largest neighbourhood in defiance of
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DARWIN — A Timor Sea Justice Campaign public meeting and video night on July 21 heard the latest developments in the campaign to stop the Australian government's theft of East Timor's oil and gas resources.
Solidarity activist Robyn Waite, who
Max Lane
On the evening of July 22, more than 300 people gathered at the Jakarta Legal Aid Institute to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the founding of the People's Democratic Party (PRD).
Film footage taken by PRD activists over the last 10
Sarah Stephen
On July 14, officers from the Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs (DIMIA) forcibly moved four families from the Villawood detention centre in Sydney's south-west to the Baxter prison in the South
Chris Latham, Perth
On July 22, Australian Education Union WA school representatives condemned state education minister Allan Carpenter for planned unilateral changes to teachers' working conditions.
On July 8, two days prior to the end of second
In the editorial in GLW #590, Kim Beazley was incorrectly described as the Hawke Labor government's defence minister at the time of the 1991 Gulf War. Beazley was defence minister in the Hawke government from 1984 until 1990. At the time of 1991 Gulf
Peter Verney
At last, the catastrophe in the western Sudanese region of Darfur, a quarter of whose 6 million people are now displaced by war and whose lives are at serious risk as the rainy season begins, has gained international attention.
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Former Australian spy chief Philip Flood presented a report on July 22, which found that the intelligence provided by Australia's spy agencies on Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction was "thin", "ambiguous" and "incomplete".
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Trent Hawkins, Perth
Since the passing of the Nelson legislation, allowing universities to increase HECS fees by as much as 25%, 26 universities have voted to increase their HECS fees. Most have done so by the full 25%.
While the Coalition
Sue Bolton, Melbourne
On July 21, the national council of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union expelled former AMWU Victorian secretary Craig Johnston from the union. The expulsion was another step in the attempt by the National Left faction
Chris Williams
Outside cinemas around the country, a new "parliament of the streets" is developing as people discuss and debate Michael Moore's new film, Fahrenheit 9/11. Cinemas have been packed out by people attending previews of what is fast
Ray Jackson
On St. Valentines Day, February 14, the Young Man from Kamilaroi — the 17-year-old son of Gail Hickey — was impaled on a metal fence in Waterloo. He died the next morning of his horrific injuries. The following day the so-called
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