GLW issue 655, published 2006-02-08.

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Our Common Cause: The expensive hardware that visits your backyard

What would I be if I were 77 metres high, 344 metres long, 78 metres at my widest point and a full three metres taller than Brisbane's Story Bridge? Give up? I'd be the USS Ronald Reagan, the world's largest aircraft carrier, come to Brisbane for

Papers Of a Dead Man

REVIEW BY SARAH STEPHEN Papers Of a Dead Man7.30pm, Friday February 24Performance Space, Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts420 Brunswick Street, Fortitude Valley, BrisbanePhone bookings $19/$24, (07) 3872 9000 (noon-4pm, Mon-Fri)Online

Police on the loose

Dale Mills NSW Police has called for 3000 extra police over the next three years, part of a nation-wide attempt by police to gain more staff and more funding. Australia's real recurrent spending on the police service was about $5.5 billion in

Cost of war

0 — the number of weapons of mass destruction found. 100,000+ — the estimated number of Iraqi civilians killed during the war and occupation. 2437 — the number of coalition troops killed in the conflict. 85 — the number of journalists
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