BY EVA CHENG
If US President George Bush hadn't dominated this year's October 17-21 summit of the Asia Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) in Shanghai, China, with his "anti-terrorist" war drive, the peak regional body of 21 economies would have
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BY NORM DIXON
The crude efforts by a faction of the US government to link anthrax-infected letters to the Saddam Hussein regime — without a shred of evidence — are an attempt to win greater public support for an extension of Washington's "war
For each other's sake
"In my opinion, the young generation of whites, blacks, browns, whatever else there is: you're living at a time of extremism, a time of revolution, a time when there's got to be a change. People in power have misused it, and
BY KAREN FLETCHER
On October 19, the ALP announced that, if elected, it will leave the Goods and Services Tax almost entirely intact — just another reminder that the Labor Party is interested only in the needs of the corporate rich, not the rest
BY SARAH STEPHEN
Federal Labor leader Kim Beazley has made much of the fact that Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri has so far refused to discuss the issue of asylum seekers with the Howard government.
During the Tampa incident, Megawati
BY GRANT COLEMAN
PERTH — Determined to take action against the US attacks on Afghanistan, 55 students and staff formed an anti-war alliance at an October 24 forum on Curtin University.
Addressing the meeting, Gavin Mooney, a health sciences
BY CHRIS SLEE
MELBOURNE — In a combined mass meeting on October 24, 10,000 construction unionists have decided not to cooperate with the royal commission into the industry set up by the federal government and have backed a united industrial
BY VIRGINIA BROWN
PERTH — The variety of backgrounds of the 30 activists who gathered for Socialist Alliance's first "politics in the pub" forum on October 19 — refugee rights and anti-war campaigners, candidates from different left-wing
BY GARY MEYERHOFF
DARWIN — There have been mixed reactions to the October 24 apology made to indigenous people by the Northern Territory Labor government before a gallery packed with members of the stolen generations: some see it as the dawning
To the people of Britain and the USA: I write from Mauritius. You may not remember quite where that is.
BY NIKKI ULASOWSKI
SYDNEY — Nuclear Disarmament Party (NDP) Senate candidates Michael Denborough and Yvonne Francis were arrested at Sydney University on October 25 for handing out anti-war information on campus.
Francis told Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly
BY SHUA GARFIELD
HOBART — The Hobart City Council is considering banning the distribution of Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly in Elizabeth Mall, one of the city's main public spaces.
Council referred a motion banning the newspaper's distribution back to
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