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Actively Radical TV — Sydney community television's progressive current affairs producers tackle the hard issues from the activist's point of view. Includes the Green Left news. CTS Sydney (UHF 31), every Sunday, 9pm. Phone 9565 5522. Visit for
BY KERRYN WILLIAMS  On December 12, federal sex discrimination commissioner Pru Goward released her final proposal for 14 weeks of government-funded paid maternity leave, to be included in the 2003 federal budget. Under the scheme,
BY CHRIS LATHAM FREMANTLE — On January 6, the USS Abraham Lincoln, the world's largest aircraft carrier, returned to Fremantle just two weeks after its last visit. It had been scheduled to return to the US, but was ordered back to Fremantle to
national secretary John Percy; Sydney University student activist Ashisha Cunningham; former BHP steelworker now teacher Geoff Payne; Sudanese political refugee and refugee-rights activist Osama Yousif; feminist activist and trainee teacher at
BY ROBIN TAUBENFELD BRISBANE — Police have suggested that the wheels are "now in motion" to close down the Narangba protest camp. The protest camp, which has maintained a 24-hour peaceful vigil opposite the proposed Steritech nuclear irradiation
Weapons of mass destruction or oil? Iraq is a country of rich natural resources. Many experts believe that Iraq has additional undiscovered oil reserves. Iraqi oil is of high quality and is very inexpensive to produce. This makes it one of the
BY RICHARD INGRAM Links #22 New Course Publishers, Sydney 2002—128 pages, $8 each or $39 for six issues Order at <links@dsp.org.au> Available from Resistance Bookshops (see page 2) or visit <http://www.resistancebooks.com>
BY PETER ROBSON & LISA LINES Refugees' rights protests organised at short notice in Adelaide and Newcastle helped to expose the media's lies about asylum seekers in the second week of January. In Adelaide, 60 people attended a January 8 protest
BY ANDREW HALL CANBERRA — Certified agreement negotiations in the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations (DEWR), finalised with an all-staff vote on 18 December, were bitter and protracted. Department secretary Dr Peter Boxall, a
The January 9 announcement that 1550 Australian Special Air Service (SAS) and other troops will be sent to the Gulf in coming weeks is further confirmation that Australians will take part in an attack on Iraq. In fact, some may already be.

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