BY SUE BOLTON& ALISON DELLIT
While the majority of 91̳ Weekly's readers live in Australia's capital cities, during the last 10 years, the paper's distribution has expanded into a number of regional centres.
GLW is now distributed in Alice
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Departing from the usual carefully stage-managed "shows of unity", designed to sing the praises of federal and state Labor leaders, the ALP's three largest state conferences — NSW, Queensland and Victoria — have embarrassed
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The federal government's repressive "anti-terror" bills are moving closer to being passed. On June 4, attorney-general Daryl Williams announced that the government had finalised its amendments to the main package, accepting most of
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"Don't believe them when they tell me there ain't no cure. The rich stay healthy, the sick stay poor" — U2's 1988 song God Part II contains a pretty good summary of the Howard government's seventh budget, delivered on May 14.
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The Greens and the Democrats oppose the anti-terrorism legislation and will vote against it in the Senate. Attorney-General Daryl Williams has been under considerable criticism within the Liberal Party for the botching
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In the mid 1960s, protesters in Australia broke the law just by holding street protests against the Vietnam War. Through persistently defying anti-protest laws, they won the legal right to hold street marches. This is an
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2, 2002, Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism Bill 2002, Criminal Code Amendment (Suppression of Terrorist Bombings) Bill 2002, Kurdistan Workers Party, PKK, Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, FARC, ETA,
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On May 8, the Senate Legal and Constitutional Legislation Committee delivered its report on the package of "anti-terrorist" legislation currently before the Senate. The committee proposed a series of amendments to the legislation
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With the conclusion of two public hearings into proposed "anti-terrorist" laws, the Labor and Coalition parties are beginning to define their positions on the package of legislation. The package looks likely to pass with
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"If I stole your wallet, and then came up to you and said that it was too late, now that it was stolen, to give it back, and offered you just $15 of the $100 that was in it — would you accept?", Wajma Tapadshah, a member of the
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"The idea that the United States is just one big pool of reactionary politics is false — there is resistance to President George Bush, and we want to extend that", Ahmed Shawki, a leader of the US International Socialist
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SYDNEY Organisers of the April 19 pro-Palestinian protest are supporting planned protests on May 1, arguing that defence of Palestine and demands on Israel to withdraw from the Occupied Territories be a central part of