GLW issue 469, published 2001-10-31.

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Beazley's non-solution to refugee crisis

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

Loose cannons

Majorities are another question Fighting terrorism "must never be an excuse to persecute minorities". — US President George "The Crusader" Bush. Foot 'n mouth disease is enough "I do not have anthrax." — George the Crusader again.

and ain't i a woman?: Women pollies opposed to violence?

The speakers' lists at Reclaim the Night rallies across Australia were littered with election candidates from all political parties — in Adelaide it was Democrats Senator Natasha Stott Despoja and the Coalition's Trish Draper; in Sydney it was

IRAQ: Bugging Saddam Hussein

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
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