GLW issue 669, published 2006-05-31.

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Cindy Sheehan calls for David Hicks' release

Gerard Morel, Melbourne At a lunchtime rally outside the Liberal Party's Victorian head office on May 26, US anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan and the Democrats' Senator Natasha Stott-Despoja called for an end to the US military's imprisonment of

McExploitation!

Peter Boyle On March 8, 1996, Michael Johnston, 19, a Wollongong University student, was killed while cleaning a stove at a McDonald's restaurant. He was just two weeks into the job. Johnston had been instructed to carry out the daily cleaning of

Climate change: Nuclear is no solution!

Zoe Kenny Despite being seen as a climate change "renegade", Prime Minister John Howard is currently attempting to gain "greenie" points by pushing for acceptance of "cleaner and greener" nuclear power as the solution to global warming. However,

Loose Cannons

How diplomatically put "Moscow and Washington failed to overcome their differences over Iran's nuclear programme yesterday, with a meeting of top diplomats in London breaking up without agreement on a common stance on the dispute... The US State
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