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Last weekend one million people marched against Australia joining the US
war against the Iraqi people. An unprecedented movement has taken over
the stage of Australian politics.
If it can keep its resolve
Editorial
In May 2001, a distressed Marilyn Reidy explained how she found out that HIH had collapsed. Reidy and her husband, who has been totally incapacitated by a brain tumour, were dependent on his HIH insurance cheques to survive; when Reidy tried to cash
Prime Minister John Howard's December 1 statement in an interview on Channel Nine's Sunday program that his government would launch pre-emptive military attacks on neighbouring countries to stop any suspected terrorist strike on Australia has
On November 25, the trials of Australian-based, British-born academic Lesley McCulloch and US nurse Joy-Lee Sadler began in Aceh. They are being tried for visa violations, after the prosecution failed to make espionage charges stick. McCulloch is a
NSW Premier Bob Carr's enthusiasm for vilifying protesters, police patrols with sniffer dogs and cooperating with Australia's secret police service is not an aberration for the ALP. Federal Labor is also bending over backwards to increase police
It is a sign of how strong opposition to a war against Iraq has become that the Labor Party federal caucus on November 12 shifted its position slightly. But the shift is an illusion. Come a war, the ALP will almost certainly support it.
The ALP now
UN vote brings war closer
The unanimous vote by the 15 members of the United Nations Security
Council on November 8 to impose tough new weapons inspection rules and
deadlines for compliance on Iraq, with the threat of serious
Labor joins attacks on civil liberties
In a stunning display of just how far to the right a Labor leader can
go, NSW Premier Bob Carr has called for even more attacks on civil liberties,
paving the way for a crackdown on dissent, and
353 deaths overshadowed by child that wasn't thrown
The Senate committee set up to investigate whether asylum seekers threw
their children into the sea last year found that they didn't, and that
former defence minister Peter Reith
A cosmetic change
Like most ALP conferences during the past three decades, the special
rules conference held on October 5-6 was a carefully stage managed affair.
It was designed to bolster the image of federal Labor leader Simon
Let Timorese stay!
The immigration department's September 25 announcement that it had rejected
168 asylum claims made by East Timorese refugees is a national disgrace.
These are the first of more than 1700 applications which have been
Labor sells out on war
The me-too approach that Prime Minister John Howard and his cabinet
have taken to the US war drive against Iraq has given the ALP some leeway
to appear to be an opposition on this issue. It isn't.
Both the
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