BY BRYAN SKETCHLEY
BRISBANE — In 2002, the Queensland treasury announced plans to strip state government departments of corporate support staff and place them in five departments. These departments would then sell corporate support services back
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BY NIKKI ULASOWSKI
PERTH — More than 20,000 people crammed in Forest Place in the CBD on February 15 for an anti-war rally organised by the NOWaR Alliance.
Contingents from Fremantle and Midland arrived on "peace trains". From Fremantle, three
REVIEW BY DANNY FAIRFAX
You are G8, We are 6 BillionBy Jonathon NealeVision Paperbacks, 2002262 pages, $27.95
In the last year, books by Michael Moore, Noam Chomsky, John Pilger and Tariq Ali have been prominent in the bestsellers lists. You can
BY
KYLIE MOON
As Prime Minister John Howard buddies up for the media with his “close
personal friend” US President George Bush, Australian students are preparing
some US-Australian solidarity of our own. But we aim to prevent war, not
to
BY GRANT COLEMAN
WOLLONGONG — Six of the Illawarra's 19 high schools have been introduced to the No War Mobile as student anti-war activists continue to build the March 5 Books Not Bombs student strike.
The increasingly famous box-trailer, 2.5
BY EMMA MURPHY
ADELAIDE — The massive turn-out here for the February 16 anti-war march astounded everybody. The organisers of the rally, the NO WAR coalition, estimate that 100,000 people took part. Even the police reckon 70,000 were there.
On top of the hundreds of thousands mobilising in Australia's main cities, many thousands rallied in cities and towns across Australia.
From Cairns, Susan Austin reports that 2000 people gathered for a peace picnic. A 500-strong contingent
BY
PATRICK BOND
“Africa didn't really shine here”, South Africa's finance minister
Trevor Manuel told a press conference in snowy Davos, Switzerland during
the World Economic Forum in late January. “There is a complete dearth of
panels on
BY
PETER KRBAVAC
CANBERRA — Canberrans turned out in their thousands on February 15
to show their opposition to US President George Bush's war. Organisers
estimate the crowd at more than 15,000 — a size not seen at a protest in
Canberra
Wollongong council votes against war
BY GRANT COLEMAN
WOLLONGONG — Following the 5000-strong anti-war rally on February 8, the local council voted to reaffirm Wollongong as a "city of peace", opposing war on Iraq and supporting the return of
BY
ALISON THORNE
The Socialist Alliance sought to identify areas of broad agreement
in order to unite socialists from eight diverse socialist organisations,
as well as many individual activists, around limited but shared goals.
The
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