It is a sign of how strong opposition to a war against Iraq has become that the Labor Party federal caucus on November 12 shifted its position slightly. But the shift is an illusion. Come a war, the ALP will almost certainly support it.
The ALP now
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UN vote brings war closer
The unanimous vote by the 15 members of the United Nations Security
Council on November 8 to impose “tough” new weapons inspection rules and
deadlines for compliance on Iraq, with the threat of “serious
Labor joins attacks on civil liberties
In a stunning display of just how far to the right a Labor leader can
go, NSW Premier Bob Carr has called for even more attacks on civil liberties,
paving the way for a crackdown on dissent, and
353 deaths overshadowed by child that wasn't thrown
The Senate committee set up to investigate whether asylum seekers threw
their children into the sea last year found that they didn't, and that
former defence minister Peter Reith
A cosmetic change
Like most ALP conferences during the past three decades, the “special”
rules conference held on October 5-6 was a carefully stage managed affair.
It was designed to bolster the image of federal Labor leader Simon
Let Timorese stay!
The immigration department's September 25 announcement that it had rejected
168 asylum claims made by East Timorese refugees is a national disgrace.
These are the first of more than 1700 applications which have been
Labor sells out on war
The “me-too” approach that Prime Minister John Howard and his cabinet
have taken to the US war drive against Iraq has given the ALP some leeway
to appear to be an opposition on this issue. It isn't.
Both the
As supporters of refugees' rights prepared to mark August 26, the anniversary of the rescue of 433 refugees by the MV Tampa, as Tampa Day to shame the federal government, immigration minister Philip Ruddock fought back.
On August 24, Ruddock had
On November 14-15, Sydney will host a meeting of World Trade Organisation (WTO) trade ministers from some 25 countries to discuss the Doha round of multilateral trade negotiations.
The meeting will evaluate the progress that has been made since
The human cost of the 'Pacific solution'
On August 26, 2001, 433 asylum seekers aboard an Indonesian fishing
boat, the KM Palapa 1, overloaded and sinking, were rescued by the
Norwegian freighter, MV Tampa. On August 27, the Howard
A blue-print to shift further right
After six months of hoopla, the much-anticipated review of the ALP's
structures was released on August 9. The document is part distraction —
proposing minor changes to make the party appear more
In the space of a week, the federal government shocked the world by voting against an optional protocol to the United Nations convention against torture, then aggressively dismissed a UN report which was highly critical of Australia's policy of
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