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BY PIP HINMAN SYDNEY — To enormous applause, journalist and filmmaker John Pilger made an impassioned call for people to support the Sydney high-school student anti-war protesters who have been pilloried by the corporate media. Addressing 1000

Adelaide's student strike on March 26 saw thousands of high school students walk out of school to protest against war on Iraq. The following protest march, led by a huge banner demanding 'books not bombs', swelled to 7000 at its

BY NIKKI ULASOWSKI PERTH — Students have been undeterred by the increased police attacks on anti-war protesters, vowing to demonstrate again on April 4. There have been many reports of police assaulting students and other demonstrators in
BY JIM GREEN ADELAIDE — The South Australian parliament has legislated to ban the construction of a national radioactive waste dump in the state. The legislation, passed by the upper house in a special sitting to debate the bill on March
BY BEN COURTICE MELBOURNE — Victorian Peace Network organisers estimate between 35,000 and 40,000 people attended the March 29 protest against war. The rally stretched for more than three city blocks, led by protesters waving Palestinian and
BY SUE BULL GEELONG — When the building industry royal commission reported its findings on March 26, its major focus and attack on trade unionists surprised few construction workers in Geelong. They had always thought the commission was purely
What should Australia's huge anti-war movement be doing now that the war against Iraq has begun? To get the views of the Socialist Alliance, Australia's main left organisation, 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly's NORM DIXON interviewed its three national

Up to 4000 predominantly high school students careened through the streets of Melbourne in a chaotic and energetic display of anger over the war on Iraq on March 26. Even before the speaking platform began the

As if to prove — yet again — the shallowness and absurdity of the "beauty" industry, the Sydney Morning Herald on March 4 announced that "designer pubic hair is in". The latest Gucci advertising campaign features a woman with her pubes waxed into
BY ROHAN PEARCE The US-led invasion of Iraq has enraged people throughout the Arab nations, jeopardising regimes allied to the US. On March 21, a wave of angry mobilisations swept the Middle East and north Africa. Defying a ban on protests,
BY MELANIE SJOBERG ADELAIDE — The annual WOMAD world music festival in February once again provided a fabulous musical experience within the idyllic garden setting of Botanic Park. More than 15,000 people attended. It was truly inspiring to see
BY ELISABETH KEAN As part of its response to the Palestinian intifada, the Israeli government's policy is to contain and control the Palestinian population in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. Part of that policy is to construct impenetrable