BY PAULA ABOOD & ALISSAR GAZAL
"I've always maintained that [we women] have a more fair approach to the truth and to the integrity of other human beings, because we serve life and peace" — Hanan Ashrawi on ABC Radio, October 22, 2003.
"Ashrawi
560
The federal Coalition government's $1 billion plan to "save" Medicare has been widely exposed as a wolf in sheep's clothing — a set of changes that would radically change Medicare from providing universal health care to little more than a safety
BY BEN COURTICE
MELBOURNE — US left journalist David Barsamian explained, denounced and ridiculed the US President George Bush's "war on terror" to a full house at RMIT's Horti Hall on October 30.
Barsamian, a veteran activist and radio
SYDNEY — Treasures of Palestine showcases a wide selection of traditional material ranging from costumes, jewellery and ceramics to mother-of-pearl inlay work, posters, photography and olive-wood sculptures. Through these objects, visitors to the
BY ALISON THORNE
Members First, a grouping within the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) that is working for a fighting union, has launched a campaign to win the right to use email for union organising, free from management interference or
BY MARCELLE HOFF
SYDNEY — On October 30, 600 people attended a rally and march from Union Square on Harris Street to Pyrmont Point to demand that the state government save the former water police site at Pyrmont from developers. Under a Sydney
BY HERBERT DOCENA
MADRID — The US-convened donors' conference on Iraq opened on October 23 amid questions about US$4 billion in Iraqi oil revenues which the US Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) could not account for. As the US began pleading
BY AUSTIN WHITTEN
SYDNEY — Anthony Billingsley, a former foreign affairs officer and Office of National Assessments analyst, abruptly cancelled a lecture at Macquarie University on October 23, the day before it was to be delivered.
The ONA, his
Israel's "defence" ministry announced new plans on October 24 for the route of "apartheid wall" that would eventually cut off the Jordan River Valley from the West Bank, which would mean annexing the main food basket for Palestinians.
A senior
BY GARRY LEECH
Colombia's right-wing, pro-US president Alvaro Uribe suffered a double setback at the polls on October 25-26. On October 25, voters rejected most components of a 15-point referendum that Uribe said would give him the necessary tools
Free market, Dubya style
"Companies awarded $8 billion in contracts to rebuild Iraq and Afghanistan have been major campaign donors to President Bush, and their executives have had important political and military connections, according to a study
BY ALAN MAASS
CHICAGO — The October 25 demonstrations marked the first national US mobilisation of the anti-war movement since the US-led invasion of Iraq. The demonstrations in Washington and San Francisco came after the systematic lies of US
- Page 1
- Next page