BY ALISON DELLIT
The ALP's current navel-gaze reminds me somewhat of the Time Warp. Not John Howard's back-to-the-1950s time warp, but the Rocky Horror dance: a jump to the "left", a step to the "right", a bit of pelvic thrusting and you end up
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BY NORM DIXON
A carefully choreographed meeting of the "Iraqi opposition" was held in Washington on August 9 and 10. Attending were leaders from six right-wing groups opposed to Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. The US government is seeking to
War is peace
"I know all the war rhetoric, but it's all aimed at achieving peace." — George "The Crusader" Bush, August 7.
Having a bet each way
"The death tax is punitive on small business owners. It is very tough on farmers and ranchers.
BY RAY FULCHER
MELBOURNE — More 100 people attended the “'War on Terrorism': Democracy
Under Challenge” conference in Melbourne on August 9. The conference was
hosted by the Victoria University law school and supported by the Federation
of
Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace: How We Got to
Be So HatedBy Gore VidalThunder's MouthPress/Nation Books, 2002160 pp., $29.20 (bp)
REVIEWED BY ROLAND SHEPPARD
"Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war to whip
the citizenry into a
The days are getting colderThey stretch before me all in a lineEach night gets a little bit longerAnd these stars that once were strange now I call mineOh, it's been so long since I saw her faceAnd I just can't find my way out of this placeI took the
BY ROBERT FISK
Tamim's family live in Joee Sheer, which means "stream of milk". But, outside his slum home, a stream of warm, reeking sewage flows. Never was there more reason to take off your shoes at a wooden door.
Inside, you climb a narrow
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BY NICOLE HOYE
BRISBANE — Construction of Steritech's food irradiation facility
at Narangba has resumed after police broke a protest picket on August 13.
No work had been done at the site since 200 people picketed on August 7.
The
BY IAN BOLAS
In the present period we have Labor governments in all states and yet nothing much seems to be different.
The NSW government sends mounted police against pickets, the Victorian government collaborates in victimising the "Skilled Six"
Solidarity with Craig Johnston
MELBOURNE — The Socialist Alliance is organising a public meeting in solidarity
with the elected Victorian leader of the Australian Manufacturing
Workers Union Craig Johnston and the “Skilled Six” on September
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
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