On July 23, Indigenous leaders from around the country were invited to Canberra to attend a round-table discussion on Indigenous violence. While Prime Minister John Howard has received praise from the mainstream press and sections of the Indigenous
Editorial
On June 25, Prime Minister John Howard announced that the cabinet's National Security Committee had decided to send 1200 troops 200 of them combat soldiers and 300 Australian Federal Police (AFP) officers to the Solomon Islands for at
On March 20, the day the US, Britain and Australia launched their war on Iraq, the federal government reintroduced a bill into the House of Representatives to give the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) draconian police powers.
The Australian parliament is debating legislation to amend the criminal code and ban the Lebanese-based Hezbollah (Party of God) as a terrorist organisation. This means that any Australian resident raising funds or supporting the organisation in any
When the Socialist Alliance was founded in February 2001, Green Left Weekly supported the new political organisation. The social problems created by the capitalist profit system — war, unemployment, poverty, racism, the oppression of women, etc —
Every day last week, the newspapers carried full-page lists of medicines and dietary supplements recalled by the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA), after it suspended the manufacturing licence of Pan Pharmaceuticals for six months on April 28.
There have been many theories floated in Australia's newspapers as to why federal Labor leader Simon Crean is doing so badly in the polls. Two polls in as many days indicated most Labor supporters prefer former PM Kim Beazley to lead the party. The
A monstrous lie
On April 8, the Pentagon revealed that an Iraqi factory near Hindiya,
south of Baghdad, which the US invaders had originally told journalists
was a facility for producing the nerve agent sarin, was, in fact, a
Why Iraqis are not welcoming US 'liberators'
I really do believe we will be greeted as liberators, US vice-president
Dick Cheney said on March 16, three days before US-led military forces
began their invasion of Iraq.
The real
The anti-war movement in Australia — which is one of the aggressor countries in the US-led invasion of Iraq — has a moral duty to escalate its campaign now, before more innocent Iraqi lives are sacrificed in this war. That needs no argument.
Student strike sets example to unions
In a magnificent display of conscience, irreverence and determination,
more than 30,000 students largely from state and private high schools
took to the streets around the country on March 5
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