BY DOUG LORIMER
Washington has turned the diplomatic battle over the passage of a UN Security Council resolution that it can claim gives it a mandate to invade Iraq into a charade.
The resolution itself is a cynical ploy. It does not provide any
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BY ROHAN PEARCE
The report by Hans Blix, head of UN weapons inspections in Iraq, to the UN Security Council on March 7 was a stunning blow to the US/British/Australian coalition's "case" for war.
While Blix stated that Iraq had to produce more
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MELBOURNE — More than 2000 people cheered and clapped as a number of great performers appeared on the stage of the Melbourne Concert Hall on February 28. They were there for the Morning Star Concert of West Papua. The biggest cheers went up every
BY NICK SOUDAKOFF
The Philippines government has blamed the Moro Islamic Liberation Front for a March 4 bomb blast that ripped through a crowded bus shelter outside Davao City airport in Mindanao. The MILF has been blamed even though the Abu Sayyaf
BY JAMES VASSILOPOULOS
CANBERRA — The planned March 23-24 national convergence on Parliament House has received more support, including endorsement by Unions ACT and more regional activist interest.
A Unions ACT meeting on March 5 unanimously
GAZA STRIP — Eleven Palestinians, including a 60-year-old man, were killed and at least 100 wounded on March 6 in a renewed Israeli military onslaught on the Jabaliya refugee camp. The camp was invaded by Israeli occupation forces at dawn.
The
BY SARAH STEPHEN
A deepening of Australia's military alliance with the United States
was heralded by the February 26 launch of Australia's National Security
a Defence Update 2003. While much of the 25-page document foreshadows
only marginal
Around the globe, tens of thousands of women, men and children marched on International Women's Day, March 8, to protest against US President George Bush's proposed war on Iraq.
Women will be the hardest hit by war in a country that is already
According to an Associated Press report, 200,000 people took to the streets of the capital of Yemen, Sana, on March 1 to protest against a US attack against Iraq and demand that Arab leaders to take steps to avert war.
Protesters carried banners
BY
SARAH STEPHEN
The decline in bulk-billing by doctors has been making headlines
for weeks. In February, it was revealed that the percentage of doctors
who bill Medicare directly and do not bill patients has dropped dramatically
under the
BY DAVE MILSOM
SHEFFIELD — Up to 1000 students took part in the international March 5 student strike against war here. Around 150 came from King Edward school and at least 10 other schools in the city participated.
There was a lively march
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