Kim Bullimore, West Bank
According to the US-Israeli script, the death of Palestinian President Yasser Arafat on November 11 was suppose to spark a violent power struggle within the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) and in its leading
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Chris Latham
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission's sixth annual Container Stevedoring Monitoring Report, which was made public on November 15, claims that the cost reduction gains made by the stevedore bosses as a result of the 1998
Sarah Stephen
In June 2002, the Australian immigration department claimed to have proof that Afghan refugee Ali Bakhtiyari was actually a plumber from Pakistan called Ashgar Ali.
In December 2002, Ali's temporary visa was cancelled and he was
Pip Hinman, Sydney
The Leichhardt Town Hall was filling up fast on November 22 when federal Labor leader Mark Latham arrived. Five minutes later people were still pouring in, curious about Labor's plans for the next three years.
Latham's
Selena Black, Sydney
The Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union said on November 22 that a 9% decline in James Hardie profits showed that the community boycott campaign against the company is having an impact.
According to CFMEU NSW
Sarah Fuller & Rachel Evans, Sydney
In late July, Mission Australia was granted permission from the NSW Anti-Discrimination Board to ban all transgender women who are not "recognised transgender persons" from its publicly funded homeless women's
Doug Lorimer
A week after US Marine General John Sattler, commander of the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force, claimed on November 18 that the battle for Fallujah was over, US troops were still engaged in intense battles with Iraqi resistance fighters
"Butchered blond woman found with slit throat" cried the Sydney Morning Herald, in blond coloured tears.
But the 100,000s of Iraqis who have died are called "insurgents" and it is left at that.
I'll stand on a box and shout at the masses of
Sarah Stephen
Tensions began to boil over inside the Baxter immigration detention centre at the end of November, with a series of attempted suicides and hospitalisations.
Previously, nurses saw patients in the nurses station inside the compound.
Sam Wainwright
Imagine working for 19 hours without a single break, finishing at 3am and then returning to work at 7.45am that same morning for another shift. Conditions such as these have been the norm for workers at Oceanic Cruises, a company