Examining recently released government and corporate sources, researchers at the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) have uncovered new evidence that oil has long been the driving concern behind US-Iraqi relations.
In the 1980s, key figures
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BY
ANGELA LUVERA
CANBERRA — In the largest peace protest yet in Canberra, 20,000 people
converged on the lawns outside federal parliament on March 23 and 24. Although
most were from Canberra, protesters arrived from 22 cities and towns
BY OSCAR JUKES
DARWIN — Two-hundred people attended a March 23 public forum to discuss the federal government's plans to deport 84 East Timorese refugees living in the Northern Territory.
Organised by the East Timor Action Network, the forum
BY ALISON DELLIT
A Greens proposal to hold a Senate inquiry examining the legality of the Iraq war and looking into ways to ensure wars cannot be embarked upon without parliamentary approval was defeated in the Senate on March 27.
The commitment
The anti-war movement in Australia — which is one of the aggressor countries in the US-led invasion of Iraq — has a moral duty to escalate its campaign now, before more innocent Iraqi lives are sacrificed in this war. That needs no argument.
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BY SUE
BOLTON
MELBOURNE — The release by commissioner Terence Cole of the royal
commission into the building industryÂ’s final 23-volume report showed decisively
that this commission had nothing to do with fighting corruption, and everything
BY
MARTIN ILTIS
LONDON — On March 22, up to 500,000 people demonstrated in central
London against the US-British-Australian invasion of Iraq. Among those
hundreds of thousands of concerned people were a vocal contingent of Australians
BY
SARAH STEPHEN
The war against Iraq, the US government and its allies say, is being
waged for a just and moral cause — to free the Iraqi people from a despotic
and brutal dictator, to allow the people of Iraq to build a free and democratic
BY BILL MASON
BRISBANE — Queensland Teachers Union president Julie-Ann McCullough has slammed Labor Premier Peter Beattie's government after the Queensland Industrial Relations Commission (QIRC) ordered the QTU to end its campaign of rolling
BY EMMA
CLANCY
SYDNEY — In an extraordinary move, the newly re-elected NSW Labor
government has denied a permit for a student peace march on April 2, organised
by Books Not Bombs, the national student anti-war organisation.
Books Not Bombs
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