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BY PAUL PRITCHARD HOBART — Deep in the forest, from the vantage point of a rickety bridge, spanning a lazy river black with tannin, some of the vegetation is as it would have appeared 60 million years ago. Myrtle, sassafras, celery-top pine,
BY EVA CHENG The strains on Washington's close, seven-decade relationship with Saudi Arabia burst into the open last August when the Washington Post revealed that US war secretary Donald Rumsfeld's Defense Policy Board (DPB) on July 10 had
BY NORM DIXON "The allegation ... of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) is an excuse [the US uses] when we have it out for other countries", Jon Wolfsthal, deputy director of the Non-Proliferation Project at the Carnegie Endowment for International
BY SUE BOLTON PERTH — Of the 392 adverse findings that the building industry royal commission made against Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union, two-thirds were directed against the Western Australian branch of the union. Does
REVIEW BY SARAH STEPHEN No Blood for Oil: Australian Voices for Peace Various artists Order a copy of listen to sample tracks at <http://www.indie-cds.com> No Blood for Oil brings together a varied and interesting collection of
BY JIM MCILROY Members of the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) have voted by 61% to 39% in favour of a resolution from the union's Centrelink Section Council to endorse a new enterprise bargaining agreement, which will now be put to an
BY SARAH STEPHEN With chaos, violence and a humanitarian crisis in Iraq, the Australian government is wasting no time in preparing to send Iraqi refugees home. Immigration minister Philip Ruddock told Channel Nine's Sunday program on April 13 that
BY EMMA MURPHY BAXTER — After months of planning, on April 18-20 up to 800 people from across Australia converged on the Baxter detention centre outside Port Augusta, to protest against the mandatory detention of asylum seekers, and show
BY AMY PARISH On April 11, the University of Wollongong's council appointed George Maltby as chairperson of the Illawarra Technology Corporation (ITC), the corporate arm of the UOW. Maltby was already chairperson of Thales International Pacific
The United Nations Human Rights Commission (UNHRC) on April 15 condemned Israel for its “mass killing” of Palestinians and its construction of illegal settlements in the occupied territories. The United States government was the only

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