BY
ARUN PRADHAN
MELBOURNE Kicking off a weekend of massive international protest
against war on Iraq, nearly one in 50 Australians attended an anti-war
protests on February 14-16.
The weekend began with the largest peace demonstration in
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BY
IAN STOLP & JULES GREEN
HOBART Between 12,000 and 15,000 people marched on February 15,
in one of the biggest demonstrations ever held here. It took more than
40 minutes for the marchers to travel the 500-metre route. Protesters,
BY BRYAN SKETCHLEY
BRISBANE — In 2002, the Queensland treasury announced plans to strip state government departments of corporate support staff and place them in five departments. These departments would then sell corporate support services back
Wollongong council votes against war
BY GRANT COLEMAN
WOLLONGONG — Following the 5000-strong anti-war rally on February 8, the local council voted to reaffirm Wollongong as a "city of peace", opposing war on Iraq and supporting the return of
BY DANNY FAIRFAX
CANBERRA — "In my opinion, it doesn't matter if the UN is arm-twisted into a war with Iraq, it's still immoral" — these blunt words set the tone for federal Labor MP Carmen Lawrence's talk to a meeting organised by the Canberra
BY EMMA MURPHY
ADELAIDE — The massive turn-out here for the February 16 anti-war march astounded everybody. The organisers of the rally, the NO WAR coalition, estimate that 100,000 people took part. Even the police reckon 70,000 were there.
BY DOUG LORIMER
As the United States makes final preparations to launch its military conquest of Iraq, the long-simmering diplomatic dispute over the future of Iraq between Washington and Paris broke into the open.
On February 9, German officials
BY
SUE BOLTON
MELBOURNE Victorias unions have joined those in Western Australia,
calling for organised labour to play a stronger role in building mass opposition
to the threat of a war against the Iraqi people.
Victorian Trades Hall
BY
ALISON THORNE
The Socialist Alliance sought to identify areas of broad agreement
in order to unite socialists from eight diverse socialist organisations,
as well as many individual activists, around limited but shared goals.
The
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