Most Australians do not expect to have to answer to the military. So it took some confidence for Prime Minister John Howard to announce on October 24 that the government was considering involving the Australian Defence Force (ADF)
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On October 13, as the news of the mass murder in Bali spread across Australia, 45,000 people marched through Melbourne's streets in order to prevent the loss of thousands more lives in a war on Iraq. Innocent people
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On September 19, federal ALP leader Simon Crean, accompanied by Labor's candidate for the Cunningham by-election, Sharon Bird, announced that the party would vote against the Coalition's proposed changes to Telstra's price controls
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"We have allies and Australia is an ally. And I think it's good to always recognise the contributions that allies make and we've had no greater contribution [to the War on Terror] from anywhere in the world than the contribution
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In a two-page spread in the September 3 Bulletin (which hit newsstands on August 27), leading Packer political commentator Laurie Oakes argued that A split [in the Democrats] would be the quickest, cleanest solution to
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On August 27, the Bega valley shire unanimously voted to support the work of Rural Australians for Refugees, support in principle an RAR proposal for "Welcome Towns" to host asylum seekers and to encourage the government to reduce
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"Barry ... said Sammy looked a little bit blue and he was gasping... [Barry] went to ... use the phone and it didn't work, so then he said 'I'll run [to the farm down the road] and I'll get an ambulance'... Later, Sammy made this
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SYDNEY — In another example of rampant racism in Sydney's west, female students at Noor Al Houda Islamic College have had a booking cancelled by the Auburn Swim Centre, after a racist campaign by local talk-back radio hosts to
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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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If anybody still doubted that the corporate media is dominated by sexist, anti-democratic scandal-mongerers, the coverage of the Democrats' split has provided plenty of proof. The "reporting" on the resignation of former
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The US-style deregulated health-care system, with no universal guarantee of care, is what awaits Australia if the federal government has its way. That would be a disaster. Despite its so-called efficient system of
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After badly scalding his face, a friend of mine went to the emergency department of Sydney's Westmead Hospital at 2am, where he waited for six hours before his burns were even looked at. Stories like this are common. Australia's