BY
HEIDI GILL
CANBERRA Six hundred people turned out on the evening of February
4 to watch a public debate in Old Parliament House entitled Should Australia
go to war in Iraq?.
Chaired by Radio National's Late Night Live host Phillip
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BY GRANT COLEMAN
WOLLONGONG — On February 8, the people of this working-class city mobilised in numbers never before seen in the Illawarra, exceeding even the protests against the Vietnam War. More than 5000 people came out to demonstrate their
BY MARY MERKENICH
MELBOURNE — Opponents of the Howard government's policy of mandatory detention of "illegal" refugees are planning to converge on the Baxter detention centre outside Port augusta over the Easter weekend, April 18-21.
Baxter is
BY IAN JAMIESON
FREMANTLE After nine months of national and local negotiations,
wharfies employed at P&O Ports are being forced by maritime union officials
to accept an enterprise bargaining agreement for the next two-and-a-half
years,
Hellfire
Now that John Howard has seen the results of the conflagration in the ACT where hundreds of homes, public health laboratories, a fire station, a sewerage treatment plant and a high school have been destroyed perhaps he has developed an
BY ELENA JEFFRIES
PERTH — Police powers contained within WA's Prostitution Act already affect all people, especially those who work in the sex industry. They include the "right" to enter premises without warrant, strip search and cavity search
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Dario Fo comes to Balmain
Dario Fo comes to Balmain
SYDNEY The contemporary
Clare Valley marches against war
BY SANDY WHELEN
CLARE, South Australia — On February 8, about 150 concerned citizens marched down the main street of this town, protesting against the possibility of a war on Iraq. Singing and chanting, the
Meeting discusses crisis in Venezuela
SYDNEY — On January 31, 120 people gathered at Trades Hall to hear Socialist Alliance activist Jorge Jorquera speak on the political situation in Venezuela. The meeting was organised by Committees in
BY DOUG LORIMER
On October 30, White House mouthpiece Ari Fleischer told journalists that Washington "has no interest in controlling Iraq's oil reserves if [US President George Bush's] administration decides to take military action to remove Iraqi
BY JODY BETZIEN
MELBOURNE — A coroner's inquiry into the death of a 52-year-old Tongan man at Maribyrnong detention centre, has been told by one witness that the man jumped from a basketball hoop after he had been sitting on it for eight hours.
BY LYNNETTE LITTLE
PORT AUGUSTA — Port Augusta is known as the "crossroads of the outback"; a town of 17,000 people, located where highways join from the north, with many travelling south from Alice Springs and west from Perth. Like other towns
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