Alex Milne, Melbourne
On August 16, a public forum held in the Melbourne Town Hall heard speakers address a variety of nuclear-related issues, including the new nuclear reactor being constructed at Lucas Heights in suburban Sydney and the
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On August 18, I received a letter from [immigration minister] Amanda Vanstone. She says: "We should not allow the debate about failed asylum seekers who arrived unauthorised by boats to detract from Australia's generous and
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The revelation that PM John Howard knew asylum seekers were innocent of the charge of throwing their children overboard, even as he continued to tell voters that it was true, is hardly a shock to most of us. To paraphrase Douglas Adams, politicians
Rachel Evans
On August 13, the federal government and the Labor opposition voted in the Senate to ban same-sex marriage by passing the Marriage Amendment Act, which defines marriage as being exclusively between a man and a woman.
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Sarah Stephen
On August 16, we finally got confirmation that PM John Howard deliberately lied when he claimed, days before the 2001 federal election, that there was proof that asylum seekers on the Olong threw their children overboard. The welcome
SYDNEY — Anne Gardiner, an opposition candidate for general secretary of the Public Service Association (PSA), the union covering state public servants in NSW and general staff on NSW universities, has described NSW Liberal Party leader John
Socialist Alliance member Alex Bainbridge and environmental activist Jimi Cocking outside the Launceston Magistrate's Court on August 17, after police dropped charges against them. The two activists had been arrested protesting against PM John
BOLIVIA: Landless farmers protest
On August 16, thousands of landless peasants began marching from several points of Bolivia to the capital, joining thousands of peasants already protesting in the country's south. The march is demanding Landless
Barry Sheppard, San Francisco
"The Democratic Party's campaign of dirty tricks to keep [independent left candidates] Ralph Nader and Peter Camejo off the presidential ballot constitutes the most serious threat to voting rights in the US since the
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