BY
MIKE KARADJIS
United Nations secretary general Kofi Annan, releasing a grand plan
for the resolution of the 28-year-old Cyprus conflict on November 11, has
given Greek and Turkish Cypriot leaders a one-month deadline to agree on
its
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BY MARG PERROT
WOLLONGONG — The life of prominent union leader and left political activist Peggy Errey was commemorated by 150 people at her funeral in Wollongong on December 5.
Peggy Errey was born in Ireland in 1914 to a staunchly republican
A response to Rory Dobson's "pro-life" letter (GLW #519) and Brent Howard's "Church and State" letter (GLW #516).
The misnamed "pro-life" movement is regularly assisted by the capitalist press because it reinforces a view that women's primary and
Ruddock sued for $750,000
SYDNEY — Iranian refugees Mohammed and Zahraa Badraie announced on December 3 that they would seek $750,000 in compensation from the federal government for the psychological trauma and suffering inflicted on their
BY ALISON DELLIT
Despite another critical Senate committee report, federal attorney-general
Daryl Williams has again refused to accept amendments to the Australian
Security Intelligence Organisation Legislation (Terrorism) Amendment Bill.
BY
ANDREW HALL
The launch of the revamped Labor Party refugee policy on December
5 has generated a renewed and much-needed debate over the need for a more
compassionate refugee policy.
Marketed by Labor leader Simon Crean and deputy
BY JUDY DAVIS
I remember my horror the day in 1991 that the US military attacked the retreating Iraqi army on the road from Kuwait to Basra in Iraq. The war had been won, Saddam Hussein had announced a complete troop withdrawal from Kuwait in
BY JEFF SHANTZ
TORONTO — Sunkmanitu Tanka Isnala Najin, or Wolf Smoke, is an Indigenous person of Mohawk, Lakota and Seneca heritage. His tireless defence of Indigenous people's rights in North America has brought down the wrath of the Canadian
BY ALISON DELLIT
On December 5, ALP federal parliamentarian Carmen Lawrence announced her resignation from the party's shadow cabinet in protest at Labor's new policy on refugees and asylum seekers. In a blistering 20-minute statement, Lawrence
BY
ALEX BAINBRIDGE
HOBART Two floats in the November 30 Launceston Christmas parade
have sparked a string of letters in the Examiner, the town's daily
tabloid.
The Peace on Earth float was entered by a coalition of No War on Iraq,