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BY KARL MILLAR MELBOURNE — Around 1200 people gathered outside the State Library to protest against the visit of US President George Bush, also the world's number one terrorist. The protest featured the many home-made banners and placards that
BY PETER BOYLE Helen Jarvis, then a student at the Australian National University (ANU), was one of the Canberra protesters who turned out to protest against the October 1966 visit of US President Lyndon B. Johnson (LBJ). "It was at night,
COMMENT BY PIP HINMAN Some 10,000 people demonstrated against the visit to Australia by US President George Bush on October 22-23. This number can't compare with the 1 million in February, but it is significant. It shows that the anti-war movement
BY EVA CHENG The central objective behind Prime Minister John Howard's invitation to Chinese President Hu Jintao to visit Australia has been to secure a bilateral free trade agreement (FTA) with China, in the hope that this will provide privileged
BY MARCE CAMERON& SUE BOLTON BRISBANE — Perhaps inspired by the vicious anti-communist scare campaigns conducted by Coalition governments and right-wing trade union officials against militant union activists in the 1950s, officials of the
BY BILL MASON BRISBANE — On October 23, 100 angry Queensland families-department workers marched on the Crime and Misconduct Commission's hearing into abuse of foster children. The CMC has heard allegations of widespread mistreatment and neglect
Military intelligence I "George Bush was not elected by a majority of the voters in the United States. He was appointed by God." — Lieutenant-General William Boykin, Emperor George Bush II's new deputy undersecretary of defence for
Blockades I expect we'll hear no more complaints from governments, police and media about S11-style protests and union picket lines following Bush's visit to Australia. After all, the Prime Minister and his colleagues demonstrated in Parliament
BY ROHAN PEARCE At a Pentagon briefing on October 21, in response to a question about soldiers who had missed their flights back to Iraq, General Peter Pace, vice-chairperson of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told journalists that "there are in fact
BY SID PATEL SAN FRANCISCO — Three activists at the University of California-Berkeley have been convicted of student conduct violations for participating in a demonstration on the day after the US war on Iraq began. UC administrators singled out

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