BY DOUG LORIMER
With US public support for the occupation of Iraq evaporating as the death toll among US soldiers continues to rise, due to persistent Iraqi guerrilla attacks, Washington is seeking more countries to participate in the occupation.
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PalestineBy Joe SaccoJonathon Cape, 2003286 pages, $45 (pb)
REVIEW BY NICK FREDMAN
A work dealing with the politics of Palestine, in the form of a comic book, might seem an incongruent, even flippant, exercise. How can the immense human
Purgatory Down UnderBy Stephen Klinder and Jon WilliamsDirected by Alex BrounOld Fitzroy Hotel Theatre, SydneyUntil August 17
REVIEW BY BRENDAN DOYLE
Is it possible to laugh about something as appalling as the government's treatment of asylum
BY TERRICA STRUDWICK
BRISBANE — On August 8, 300 protesters defied rain to hear Aboriginal leaders and union representatives launch the stolen wages postcard campaign. Chair of the rally, 4AAA Aboriginal community radio manager Tiger Bayles set
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The Pacific Concerns Resource Centre (PCRC) on August 8 accused the New Zealand Labor government and the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat of refusing to grant media accreditation to the Pacific News Bulletin (PNB), the only Pacific Islands civil
BY ADAM MACLEAN
Denied funding by the federal Coalition government to adequately sustain the national broadcaster for the next three years, Australian Broadcasting Corporation management on August 5 announced funding cuts of $26.1 million to
BY ROHAN PEARCE
On July 29, some 1000 Iraqis marched to the former presidential palace in Baghdad. The protest, organised by the Union of Unemployed People in Iraq (UUPI), an organisation led by members of the Worker-Communist Party of Iraq (WCPI),
BY TIM GOODEN
On August 4, leader of the federal "opposition" Simon Crean attended a protest line at Geelong Wool Combing, where workers had been locked out for 13 weeks. After listening to the workers' plight, Crean held a press conference.
He
BY CHRIS ATKINSON& PAUL BENEDEK
SYDNEY — Supporters of free speech have vowed to repel a severe campaign of harassment, intimidation and censorship of left-wing political activists at the University of New South Wales.
Having held regular
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