WASHINGTON Nothing makes a newspaper prouder than a juicy foreign-policy scoop. Except, it seems, when the scoop ends up raising awkward questions about a US administration's drive for war.
Back in 1999, major papers ran front-page
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BY ALISON DELLIT
Most Australians do not expect to have to answer to the military. So it took some confidence for Prime Minister John Howard to announce on October 24 that the government was considering involving the Australian Defence Force (ADF)
MayDay, MayDay: Songs of Solidarity
Various artists
Wobbly Radio and Unions NSW
REVIEW
BY DANIELLE BUHAGIAR
There has been a proud history of pro-worker tunes dating back to
the early days of the 20th century.
In 1915, Ralph
BY JOHN PILGER
LONDON For
40 years, Australian governments have colluded with state terrorism in
Indonesia. Now, the Bali outrage allows Australian Prime Minister John
Howard to distract attention from his hypocrisy.
Howard says
BY PHIL SHANNON
CANBERRA By the close of voting on October 23, 93% of staff in the federal Department of Health and Ageing (DHA) had voted in favour of the department's next certified agreement.
This overwhelming endorsement followed a
353 deaths overshadowed by child that wasn't thrown
The Senate committee set up to investigate whether asylum seekers threw
their children into the sea last year found that they didn't, and that
former defence minister Peter Reith
BY MELINDA SMITH
SYDNEY On October 20, the Socialist Alliance Port Jackson branch launched a bold socialist campaign for the 2003 NSW state election, under the theme of "For the millions, not the millionaires!"
The launch encapsulated what
BY SUSAN REES & SUSAN AUSTIN
CAIRNS More than 300 psychiatrists, health academics, mental health practitioners, advocates and cons- umers converged on Cairns from September 12-14 for the triennial conference of the Royal Australian and New
BY CHARLIE KIMBER
LONDON The
Socialist Alliance candidate Paul Foot came third with 4187 votes, 12.7%
of the total, in the October 17 mayoral election in the east London municipality
of Hackney.
Foot beat both the Liberal Democrat
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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