Scottish Socialist Party parliamentarian Carolyn Leckie was ejected from parliament's First Minister's Questions session on March 10, when she refused to put down a poster reading "Rosie Kane is not at FMQs because she discovered WMDs". At the time,
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Sue Bolton, Melbourne
When it introduced the Building and Construction Industry Improvement Bill 2005 on March 9, the federal government picked out building industry workers for special laws that will restrict their industrial rights even more than
Bomb me humanlyTerrorise me with democracyMcDonaldise me when I hunger.
Destroy my country to save it!
The old stench of fascismis being blown away by thenew stench of fascism.
Uncontrolled B52 joy flightsThat sweet, heavy steel rain.
This is
BRISBANE — "What [federal industrial relations minister] Kevin Andrews is going to do to union rights after July 1 will make what [Joh] Bjelke-Petersen did to us in Queensland 20 years ago pale into insignificance", Bernie Neville, a leader of the
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1827: The Monitor on Sydney indicts Governor Darling on 24 counts.
1968: US marines slaughter 347 Vietnamese villagers in the My Lai massacre.
March 17
1948: Police beat strikers and hospitalise Communist MP Fred Patterson in the St
In a staggering display of hypocrisy, US President George Bush told trainee US military officers on March 8 that parliamentary elections scheduled to be held in Lebanon in May could not be free and fair so long as 14,000 Syrian troops remained
In a March 5 press conference, Somali MP Awad Ahmed Ashra explained that the Boxing Day tsunami had "thrown out containers containing toxic waste" on the country's coastline, causing widespread illness including skin disorders and abdominal
Peter Boyle
What began as a class assignment for Nick Calacouras, a final-year journalism student at the University of Technology Sydney — a small investigative project into subcontractors who handle Australia's foreign aid turned into a research
National Public Radio in the US reported on March 2 that 1700 immigrants had been given electronic monitoring bracelets by the Department Of Homeland Security, in a six-month experimental trial. The immigrants have not been accused of a crime, but
Doug Lorimer
On February 25, US Army officials at Fort Stewart, Georgia, announced that Sergeant Kevin Benderman, a 40-year-old army mechanic who refused to deploy to Iraq for a second tour of duty, will be court-martialed on desertion charges. If
Stuart Munckton
A statement released on March 8 and signed by almost 400 Venezuelan journalists accused the US government and media of a campaign to prepare the ground for a US military attack on oil-rich Venezuela.
According to translation of
Amy Irwin &Bea Bleile, Armidale
After a misleading election campaign by yhe Young Liberals in last year's student elections, the University of New England Student Association electoral tribunal ruled that three Young Liberals breached the
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