Doug Lorimer
US officials claim that they will withdraw their occupation troops from Iraq as soon as the US-recruited and trained Iraqi army is capable of fighting and defeating the anti-occupation resistance movement. But the Pentagon is spending
664
Ray Fulcher, Melbourne
David Hicks' US military lawyer Major Mike Mori told a packed audience at Melbourne University law school on April 6 that Hicks' trial was "politically motivated". Mori was delivering the law school's 2006 Alumni lecture,
Trent Hawkins
Since 1996, the Howard government has presided over the cutting of 20,000 government-funded places for students at universities as a result of funding not being properly indexed to inflation, the reduction of untied government funding
SYDNEY — More than 240 people attended the Australia Cuba Friendship Society's largest solidarity dinner in several years on April 2. The theme was "Venezuela and Cuba making history together".
Nick Rawson, an ACFS organiser, said the turnout
Greg Harris
Twenty-first century technology is making giant strides forward in some key areas. One of these is cinematic special effects. Having already relegated script-writers to a minor role, US movie studios are near the point where they can do
BRISBANE — On April 5, about 130 delegates attended two combined union delegates' meetings organised by the Queensland Council of Unions to discuss the campaign against the Howard government's Work Choices laws.
At each meeting, QCU
Just eight months of Howard control of the Senate has produced:
The Building Improvement Act, which puts coppers on work sites and fines workers $22,000 for refusing to incriminate themselves.
The Work Choices legislation, which gives employers
Sarah Stephen
Soon after the federal government's decision to grant 42 West Papuan asylum seekers temporary protection visas, an April 2 national day of action in solidarity with West Papua welcomed the decision while urging the government not to
BY ALISON DELLIT
Asked in 2005 if his decision to ask DC to remove his name from the V for Vendetta comic he scripted in the 1980s constituted "throwing the baby out with the bathwater", Alan Moore explained: "The baby is one I put a great deal of
Doug Lorimer
"Shiite Muslim religious leaders ratcheted up their rhetoric against the United States during Friday prayers", the April 1 Los Angeles Times reported, adding that "Shiite religious leaders throughout the country ... condemned a March