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@box text intr = In the days following the September 11 attacks on New York's World Trade Center and the Pentagon, millions of Australians were glued to their television sets, fixated by horror and aching empathy for the victims. The disaster could
BY NORM DIXON The May 2000 armed coup that overthrew the democratically elected Fiji Labour Party government has been formalised and legitimised. With the swearing in of a coalition government dominated by the two key Melanesian-Fijian chauvinist
BY TIM STEWART BRISBANE — Despite the Queensland premier's challenge to publicly debate anti-CHOGM protesters on the issue of globalisation, Peter Beattie failed to show at the launch of the CHOGM Action Network on September 5. Under the theme
BY PETER JOHNSTON DARWIN — Larrikiah elder June Mills has been pre-selected as the Socialist Alliance's candidate for the Senate in the Northern Territory. Mills, who has previously run as a Senate candidate for the NT Greens, will be joined on
BY SARAH SEXTON Amid the shouts of demonstrators, the protests of Southern delegations and the disagreements between the United States and European Union, the World Trade Organisation failed to launch a comprehensive revision of international trade
BY TIM GOODEN MELBOURNE — Wild allegations and mud slinging are expected to come thick and fast during the first weeks of the federal government's royal commission into allegations of corruption in the building industry, due to begin in early
BY ALISON DELLIT In the wake of the September 11 mass murder in the United States, Australians from Middle Eastern backgrounds and Muslims are suffering escalating verbal and physical abuse. The most serious incident has been the petrol bombing of
BY GRAHAM WILLIAMS GEELONG — "For too long now ordinary workers have had to suffer while governments, both Liberal and Labor, have implemented their big business policies. It's time that workers had an opportunity to stand up", says Tim Gooden,
BY SARAH PEART MELBOURNE — On the first anniversary of the September 11-13 protest against the World Economic Forum, anti-corporate activists organised an all-day protest outside the city's main Nike store. It was the 26th successive week of
BY JOHN PILGER LONDON — If the attacks on the United States have their source in the Islamic world, who can really be surprised? Two days earlier, eight people were killed in southern Iraq when British and US planes bombed civilian areas. To my
BY ALANA KERR SYDNEY — In the last two weeks, four branches of the Socialist Alliance in metropolitan Sydney have pre-selected their lower house candidates for the upcoming federal election. These candidates, in the seats of Kingsford Smith,
BY MICHAEL MOORE LOS ANGELES, September 12 — I was supposed to fly today on the 4.30pm American Airlines flight from LAX to JFK. But tonight I find myself stuck in LA with an incredible range of emotions over what has happened on the island where