Under a front-page banner headline "Iraq on brink of religious war", the February 24 Australian claimed that "Iraq was on the brink of civil war with up to 50 Sunni mosques destroyed and three imams slain in a wave of violence to avenge the bombing
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"Our players are innocent" screamed the front page of Rupert Murdoch's Sydney Daily Telegraph on February 26. The accompanying article was about the alleged gang rape of a Coffs Harbour woman by up to six players from the Canterbury Bulldogs rugby
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On October 9, it's time to go Johnny. After more than eight years of neoliberal attacks against working people and the poor; after sending Australian troops to fight unjust wars; after locking up thousands of refugees who came here seeking asylum;
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On July 17 PM John Howard, in an address to the Committee for the Economic Development of Australia (CEDA) at the Sydney Convention Centre, outlined his "vision" for Australia's energy future. "As an efficient, reliable supplier, Australia has a
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The weekend after the January 29-31 ALP national conference, I attended the Rural Australians for Refugees national conference, one of the biggest gatherings of refugees' rights activists in the last few years.
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After being held incommunicado and in solitary confinement at the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, for nearly three years, Australian citizen David Hicks was brought before a five-member US military tribunal on August 26 and charged with
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The conviction of Dr Suman Sood on August 23 for unlawfully procuring a miscarriage brings NSW's antiquated abortion laws into the spotlight. Sood was found by a jury to have supplied an abortion-inducing drug to a 20-year-old woman at 23 weeks of
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Patrick Emerton The September 11 attacks on the World Trade Centre have resulted in a burst of legislative activity in Australia. A host of new laws has been passed, ostensibly to respond to the threat posed by terrorism. The latest proposal to
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On July 29, Australia's ambassador to the Philippines was called in to that country's foreign ministry to be given a justly deserved "dressing down" over foreign minister Alexander Downer's attacks on Philippines President Gloria Arroyo's decision to
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An April Morgan Poll shows that on a two-party preferred basis, voter support for the federal ALP is at 54.5%, while support for the federal Coalition parties is trailing behind at 45.5%. On these figures, it seems likely that Prime Minister John
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Australian and US government representatives finally agreed on a free-trade agreement (AUSFTA) on February 9, after 11 months of negotiations and widespread protest and controversy in both countries. Amid claims and counterclaims about which national
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The federal election date may not yet be determined, but the vote-buying scams are already in full swing. We've already been treated to tens of millions of dollars worth of publicly funded political advertising for the Coalition government. On