BY NORM DIXON
The US government's difficulty in convincing France, Russia and China to agree to a new United Nations Security Council resolution that would authorise a large-scale US-led military attack on Iraq may have disrupted Washington's
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BY MAX LANE
JAKARTA While Indonesian police investigations, conducted in cooperation with Australian, US, British and other police forces, continue into the October 12 Bali bombings, the policy responses to the bombing by President Megawati
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BY SIMON BUTLER
The mini-ministerial meeting of the World Trade Organization (WTO) which is to be held in Sydney on November 14-15 will be met by a number of protest actions.
One of the protest actions planned for November 14 is a youth
BY JIM MCILROY
BRISBANE
Members of the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) employed by Centrelink,
the federal government's social services agency, will meet across Australia
over the two-week period beginning October 28, to the
When using force to secure the peace,and encouraging more shopping to save the economy,and children and teens play video games that rewardfor every person decapitated and limb severed.When old women and babies are pepper-sprayedand rubber bullets
BY BILL MASON
BRISBANE — Queensland's 16,000 public hospital nurses on October 25 won a 3.8% interim pay rise and the first round in their Australian Industrial Relations Commission battle with the state government.
The increase will come into
BY KERRYN WILLIAMS
CANBERRA Harry Quick, an anti-war federal ALP MP from Tasmania,
told a Socialist Alliance forum here on October 23 that he and several
other federal ALP MPs are prepared to vote against Australian involvement
in a war
BY ELIZABETH SCHULTE
CHICAGO Iraq is one of the largest oil resources in the world
with proven reserves of 112 billion barrels of oil, second only to Saudi
Arabia. This simple fact has shaped Iraq's relationship with the rest of
the
Translation: 'economy' means US oil and armaments profits
"The successful prosecution of the war [on Iraq] would be good for the economy." — Lawrence Lindsey, George "The Crusader" Bush's chief economic adviser.
Not a purist
"Tonight I want
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