BY ALEX BAINBRIDGE
HOBART — Key Tasmanian government leaders stepped in to water down proposed Significant Personal Relationships legislation before it was presented to parliament on June 19. This is despite the fact that the original
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BY DANNY FAIRFAX
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies a theft from those who hunger and are not fed; those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the
BY ROHAN PEARCE
"I really qualify it as militarily insignificant. They are very small, they are very random, they are very ineffective", Major General Ray Odierno, commander of the US Army's 4th Infantry Division, told a June 18 press briefing from
BY JOHN PERCY
Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly continues to climb up the web rankings, confirming it as the most visited political web site in Australia.
Last week GLW's Alexa (<http://www.alexa.com.au>) ranking rose to 57,727, while the next most
BY IGGY KIM
In the face of mounting casualties and humanitarian crisis in Aceh, foreign minister Alexander Downer reaffirmed Canberra's support for Jakarta's war.
Speaking to CNN during the recent ASEAN regional forum, Downer stated that "the
Theater of WarBy Lewis LaphamThe New Press, 2002202 pages, $42 (hb)
REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON
Back in 1961, when Lewis Lapham was a young reporter in New York listening to US President John F. Kennedy, plump with "good intentions" of reviving
BY DOUG LORIMER
On June 16, the governing board of the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) began discussing a report on Iran's nuclear program from the agency's director-general, Mohammad ElBaradei. Washington hopes to use the report to
ATO blames GST for budget blow-out
MELBOURNE — On June 4, a Senate estimates committee was told that the Australian Tax Office has paid $860 million to IT services company EDS over the last five years. The contract's original budget was $480
BY JULIE WEBB-PULLMAN
HAVANA — Shortly before dawn on June 12, I joined the throngs pouring through my central Havana neighbourhood to gather on the Malecon, before marching on the Spanish embassy to protest against the recently released
BY EMMA MURPHY
For many non-Indigenous Australians, the mainstream press' coverage of Indigenous affairs is where we learn most about Aboriginal Australians. It's no surprise, therefore, that our society suffers from a high level of racism —
At the Liberal Women's Convention in Adelaide on June 9, PM John Howard threw up his latest strategy to combat the alleged "fertility crisis" — a $5000 payment to all women who give birth.
Howard is describing this as an "alternative to
BY ALLEN MYERS
PHNOM PENH — A garment worker and a police officer were killed on June 13 during a violent clash outside the Terratex Knitting and Garment International Factory Ltd. A large number of other workers and police were injured.
The
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