Alex Bainbridge, Hobart
"The car-bomb attack on Australian troops in Baghdad is yet another reminder that Australian troops should be brought home immediately", Hobart Peace Coalition activist Kamala Emanuel told Â鶹ӳ» Weekly. "Any suggestion
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Pensions
The federal treasurer Peter Costello has been saying that with an ageing population in the next 40 years there will be insufficient revenue to provide pensions and adequate health services for older Australians.
This is an inadvertent
Josephine Hunt, Canberra
More than two years after their claim for a wage increase first went before the Industrial Relations Commission, qualified childcare workers in Victoria and the ACT were delivered a pay rise of up to $82.20 per week in a
Fred Fuentes
In a surprise move, the National Liberation Army (ELN) has decided it will participate in Colombia's elections for the first time. The four-decade-old ELN is the second largest Colombian guerilla group, with around 7000 fighters.
In
Reihana Mohideen, Sri Lanka
Kirinda, a small coastal fishing village in the south, was flattened by the tsunami waves. A large cargo ship had been swept in and lay in the middle of town. There was debris everywhere: collapsed homes and buildings,
Pyrrhic victory
"Last November's operation in Falluja, most analysts agree, succeeded less in breaking 'the back' of the insurgency — as Marine Gen. John Sattler optimistically declared at the time — than in spreading it out." — Newsweek,
Raul Bassi
When Nestor Kirchner was elected president of Argentina in 2003, many both inside and outside Argentina viewed him as a progressive alternative to the rampant neoliberalism of the Carlos Menem years.
Menem had governed the country
At least 10,000 protesters from around the country converged on John Marshall Park in Washington, DC, on January 20 bringing a powerful antiwar message to the presidential inauguration of George Bush. The first thing that Bush saw as the presidential
Katie Cherrington & Megan Connor, Sydney
On January 20, students demonstrated outside ANZ branches in Sydney and Brisbane to protest the bank's involvement in an international consortium, the Trade Bank of Iraq, which facilitates corporate
Remember the outrage and incredulity you felt over the Howard government's handling of the Tampa incident?
The Refugee Rights Action Network in Western Australia is making an urgent appeal for funds to support a convergence at the Baxter detention
Message Stick: Leila Murray — The story of one woman's campaign for answers and justice that helped spark the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody. ABC, Friday, 28 January, 6pm.
Thapelo: A Prayer for Africa — Exposes the tragic
Jamal Juma', Ramallah
Away from international attention, the destiny being prepared for the Palestinian people is showing its true face more clearly in the new Israeli plans presented to the public in the past few months.
The Apartheid Wall, with
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