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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>
Our World is Not For Sale Peter Hicks and Geoff Francis CD and multimedia e-book, $25 Order at <http://www.trump.net.au/~glazfolk> REVIEW BY ALEX BAINBRIDGE Songwriters Peter Hicks and Geoff Francis justifiably believe their
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.
BY ALEX BAINBRIDGE Gay rights activist Rodney Croome believes that the Tasmanian government's proposed changes to relationships laws will give Tasmania one of the best set of lesbian and gay human rights laws in the world. As evidence of this,
Taking part in protests and demonstrations can be good for your physical and mental health, a British study released on December 23 has found. Psychologists at the University of Sussex found that people involved in campaigns, strikes and political
BY JONATHAN STRAUSS SYDNEY — NSW police officers subjected the Mufti of Australia and Imam of the Lakemba mosque, Sheikh Taj el-Din al Hilaly, to demands for a body search on January 6. According to al Hilaly's lawyer, Stephen Hopper, as a
BY JIM MCILROY BRISBANE — I have recently experienced a serious operation within the public health system of Queensland. After a period of angina I was referred for cardiac investigation to the Prince Charles hospital in the northern suburbs of
BY ROHAN PEARCE "Well, the problem with guns that are hidden is that you can't see their smoke", White House spokesperson Ari Fleischer told journalists at a January 9 press briefing. Fleischer was responding to the interim report delivered to the

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