BY MAX LANE
JAKARTA — On January 22, more than 300 journalists and other observers crammed into a room in the Struggle Museum to hear representatives of several political and social movement organisations announce the formation of a new
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Hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan women have joined in protest marches
and actions defending their government.
The opposition, a US-backed wealthy elite, has locked out workers from
their factories, called for a new presidential election and
BY NICK SOUDAKOFF
Only a year after the worst bushfires in Australia's written history, another round of horrific bushfires is sweeping through south-eastern Australia. In Canberra, four people were killed, hundreds injured and more than 530 houses
BY MICHAEL BULL
MELBOURNE — For the second time, unions and the community will rally in support of Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union state secretary Martin Kingham, who is facing contempt charges against the Royal Commission into
BY
BILL MASON
BRISBANE The Queensland Labor government's department of state
development has given formal notice to protesters camped outside the site
of the Narangba nuclear irradiation plant, now under construction, that
they will be
BY PIP HINMAN
US President George Bush's "alliance of the willing" to attack Iraq is looking pretty thin: the governments of Britain's Tony Blair and John Howard don't make up for Washington's general lack of allies. Now, with Howard's popularity
Dispute at stadium
BRISBANE — Completion of the $350 million Lang Park stadium redevelopment in time for the Brisbane vs Newcastle rugby league blockbuster in late May is in doubt because of a looming industrial dispute. Developers involved in
BY MADHAVEE INAMDAR
The United States decided to use the 9/11 tragedy to reorganise the world. It has military bases on every continent. The largest of these is situated in one of the tiniest states: Qatar in the Persian Gulf. There are 189 member
Human rights group Amnesty International has called on the US government to "end the legal black hole into which it has thrown hundreds of detainees in Guantanamo Bay" in Cuba. A statement issued by the Canadian section of AI on January 10 criticised
PERTH More than 2500 people rallied outside the Western Australian
parliament on January 19 to oppose the war on Iraq and the sea swap agreement
between the Australian and US governments. The rally was organised by the
Fremantle
BY KIM BULLIMORE
SYDNEY — The Sydney International Women's Day Collective, which has been meeting since November last year, has voted overwhelmingly to organise an IWD march and rally on March 8 around the theme of "Peace, Justice, Diversity,
BY
VANNESSA HEARMAN
MELBOURNE Fivo Freitas is 28 years old, he sought asylum in Australia
after leaving East Timor in 1999. Now he is preparing for his application
for asylum-seeker status to be rejected once again by the Refugee Review
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