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
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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 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 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
And we'll keep doing it in the 21st
"Throughout the 20th century, small groups of men seized control of great nations, built armies and arsenals, and set out to dominate the weak and intimidate the world." — George Bush, in his State of the
Prime Minister John Howard's decision to send more than 2000 troops — the largest Australian combat force since the Vietnam War — to participate in a US-led invasion of Iraq is a commitment by his government to be complicit in the mass murder of
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BY TIM STEWART
If ever there was a reality check needed amidst the noise and dust whipped up by the US war machine, this simple photograph exhibition about Iraq is it. No satellite photos and no fuzzy phone intercepts, just mountains of evidence
BY
NIKKI ULASOWSKI
PERTH Unions WA affiliates met on February 4 to discuss the Western
Australian union movements reaction to the looming war on Iraq. The meeting
unanimously adopted a strong anti-war position and decided to encourage
BY SARAH STEPHEN
A war on Iraq would create an unparalleled humanitarian crisis and generate a massive outflow of refugees, according to a confidential United Nations High Commission for Refugees document leaked in January.
The UNHCR document
BY
GRANT COLEMAN & EMMA CLANCY
WOLLONGONG Following the February 8 anti-war protest in Wollongong,
25 students from high schools and universities held a meeting to plan action
for the international student strike on March 5. The strike
BY
JOHN GAUCI
SYDNEY Anger in the northern suburbs is rising against the federal
government's support for a US war on Iraq. Anti-war film screenings and
protest meetings are attracting large crowds.
On January 22, a Chatswood screening of
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