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"It says much about a country when a decision that will be financially detrimental to its 36 million people is a sign of progress." — Luke Collins, New York columnist for the Australian Financial Review, commenting on the Argentine
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@PARAFILTER = DSP strengthens global solidarity"In these times, which side you stand on becomes a crucial test. There is no halfway house, no sitting on the fence. That is the challenge that Resistance and the Democratic
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HOBART — On December 17 the Hobart City Council denied a permit for the sale of Green Left Weekly in Elizabeth Street Mall. It was the third time the council had denied such a permit in little over three weeks. The council
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The UN High Commission for Refugees on January 8 expressed the view that a significant proportion of asylum seekers being housed on the tiny Pacific island of Nauru will be found to be refugees, and that Australia has a special
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SYDNEY — Ten thousand tonnes of toxic hexachlorobenzene are stored at the Orica plant in Botany, in Sydney's eastern suburbs. The HCB is the by-product of more than 30 years of the production of chlorinated solvents by both
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HOBART — Abortion services suspended in Tasmanian public hospitals in November 2001 have not yet resumed, despite a pre-Christmas emergency sitting of state parliament to resolve the crisis. The services were withdrawn following
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BY GRAHAM MATTHEWS& NICK EVERETT There were no spare seats at the Capitol in central Melbourne as 650 people crammed the theatre for an evening with filmmaker and journalist John Pilger on December 15. The occasion was the big-screen premiere of
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Among the campaigning plans and activities projected at the conference were: Building large, vibrant anti-war and pro-refugee demonstrations on May 1 in every major city around Australia. Support for the second Asia-Pacific Internationakl
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Unlawful combat "They will be treated in the right way, not as prisoners of war, because they are not, but as unlawful combatants." — US defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld discussing Taliban and al Qaeda prisoners captured during the US war on
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A South Australian government report has revealed that trial mining at the Honeymoon uranium mine in the north-east of the state in 1999 led to the leakage of a radioactive acid leach solution through an "impervious" clay barrier.
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BY STEPHEN O'BRIEN NEWCASTLE — A memorial service for long-time activist and socialist Elfriede Burghardt was held here on November 27. Burghardt was born in Germany in 1918 and grew up as part of an anti-fascist family living under the Nazis.
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HOBART — Yet another crisis has hit the provision of abortion services in Tasmania: in the past month doctors performing the procedure in the state's public hospitals have withdrawn the service fearing possible prosecution. In