GLW issue 655, published 2006-02-08.

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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Australian News

Deadline for ACTU petition extended

Sue Bolton The deadline for the petition circulating among unionists calling on the ACTU to organise a national stoppage and mass protests on the day the federal government's Work Choices legislation is enacted has been extended until February 19.

Qld train drivers strike

Dave Riley, Brisbane Queensland train drivers and crews went on strike for 14 hours at midnight on February 2 over a new enterprise bargaining agreement, in defiance of an order from the Queensland Industrial Relations Commission (QIRC) banning

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International News

NICARAGUA: Health workers join strike

On January 31, 20,000 health workers joined a strike by doctors seeking higher pay. More than 3000 members of the Medicos Pro Salario physicians' guild have been on strike since November 14. The Health Workers Federation (Fetsalud), which covers

VENEZUELA: Chavez warns US against attack on Iran

Jim McIlroy, Caracas In a series of fiery speeches on the closing day of the World Social Forum, January 29, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez warned the US government that a US attack on Iran would be "10 times worse than Iraq". "Enough already

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Editorial

Australia's wheat-for-bribes scandal deepens

Evidence emerging from the Australian government-appointed commission of inquiry, headed by Terence Cole, into whether or not AWB Ltd, Australia's wheat export monopoly, had violated the rules governing the UN's "oil-for-food" program, has revealed

Cultural Dissent

On the Box

Message Stick: Rosie — Based on the life of Indigenous woman Rosalie Fraser's journey of self-discovery through the trauma of physical and emotional abuse. ABC, Friday, February 10, 6pm. Political Assassinations: Anwar Al Sadat — Traces the

Latin American film festivals

By Sarah Stephen Sydney Latin American Film FestivalFri Feb 17-Sun Feb 19Campbelltown Arts Centre, Art Gallery Rd (cnr Camden & Appin Rd)Fri Feb 24-Sun Feb 26Tom Mann Theatre, 136 Chalmers St, Surry HillsFor full program visit

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