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Not happy George! "Two days early, with a veil of secrecy and a tight security lockdown, Washington's proconsul in Iraq, Paul Bremer III, handed a hollow and uncertain sovereignty to Iyad Allawi, a former Baathist collaborator of Saddam Hussein who

NEWCASTLE — Seventy people on a vast array of canoes, kayaks, dinghies, surf skis and bodyboards occupied the world's largest coal port here on June 5, supported by 100 protesters on Horseshoe Beach. The occupation was organised by Rising Tide,

The all-volunteer army I "Soldiers from a Fort Carson combat unit say they have been issued an ultimatum — re-enlist for three more years or be transferred to other units expected to deploy to Iraq. Hundreds of soldiers from the [US Army's] 3rd

Tamara Pearson, Sydney SYDNEY - Frequent, long power cuts; dirty water that is often turned off; people queuing for petrol for seven hours in 45°C heat and soldiers aiming guns at them when they get to the petrol station. This is the Iraq

Jason Cahill, Brisbane In the wake of his government's messy handling of Queensland's health-care crisis, Labor Premier Peter Beattie, who faces a state election on September 9, has been very keen to divert attention onto his plans for "drought

Rachel Evans, Sydney Sydney's Daily Telegraph fed readers a bucket-load of prejudicial rubbish on May 29. In a front-page article titled "Nursery revolt", we were told: "Parents, family groups and the Federal Government are demanding a Sydney

#1 FoE criticises carbon forum BRISBANE — On September 14, Friends of the Earth Australia spokesperson Stephanie Long expressed disappointment that the Carbon Sequestration Leadership Forum being held in Melbourne had delivered nothing new for

Paul Oboohov, Canberra The ACT Labor government, with the support of the Liberal MLAs, rammed a bill through the ACT Legislative Assembly on May 25 to make the Gungahlin Drive extension immune from planning and environmental legislation. The

SYDNEY — On August 22, a gay couple was removed by police from the Sydney offices of the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) after insisting that their legal same-sex marriage entered into overseas be counted in this year's census. ABS census

Justin Tutty, Darwin On August 23, environmentalists conducted a site inspection of the Browns mining project at Batchelor. Spokesperson John Oakley said that Compass Resources' secrecy about its activities at the old Rum Jungle uranium lease had

Katie Cherrington, Wollongong On May 19, 35 student anti-war activists from universities in Canberra, Sydney, Newcastle and Wollongong attended a cross-campus Students Against War conference hosted by the University of Wollongong Undergraduate

Sue Bolton, Melbourne After Hawker de Havilland, a subsidiary of Boeing, unjustly sacked three union delegates at the Fisherman's Bend site in Port Melbourne, an August 17 meeting of workers voted to strike until the workers were reinstated. The