Peter Boyle
We have become accustomed to the International Monetary Fund warning Third World governments about their foreign debt levels. The IMF doing the same to the world's richest and most powerful government, however, is a bit unusual.
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Jim McIlroy, Brisbane
A snap Queensland election is underway. On January 13, Labor Premier Peter Beattie called the election for February 7, in a summer-holiday bid to take the heat out of the government's damaging problems over the abuse of foster
The University of WA held two public meetings with radical journalist John Pilger on January 12 and 13. Despite limited publicity, the first night attracted 900 people while the second 350, with hundreds of people turned away.
Pilger discussed the
Allegations by asylum seekers of the use of cattle prods by the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) when boarding refugee boats, especially at the time of the children overboard scandal prior to the 2001 federal election, have again surfaced.
In an
Doug Lorimer
As the number of US troops killed in Iraq steadily climbed toward 500, Coalition Provisional Authority chief Paul Bremer claimed that guerrilla attacks had fallen dramatically in the wake of Saddam Hussein's capture on December 13.
Tom Flanagan, Lismore
Following a sustained public campaign led by the North Lismore Progress Association (NLPA), the Lismore City Council has abandoned its preferred route for a northern "bypass" that would have seen heavy traffic routed between
Norm Dixon
On January 4, while addressing British troops in Basra, British Prime Minister Tony Blair attempted to defend his government's participation in the US-led war against Iraq. In an embarrassing Freudian slip, Blair referred to "weapons of
Due to an editing error, an article entitled "When right isn't quite right" in GLW #566 incorrectly used the word "coated" to describe depleted uranium munitions.
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Sarah Stephen
On January 12, a delegation of Australian government officials and health department doctors arrived on Nauru to investigate the crisis in the Pacific island state's health system, strained to breaking point during a 29-day hunger
In a world of his own I
"Former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, pushed out of the administration for not being a team player, says President Bush was so disengaged during cabinet meetings that he was like a 'blind man in a roomful of deaf
Doug Lorimer
The December 5 directive issued by US deputy defence secretary Paul Wolfowitz provided a clear indication of what the Bush Doctrine is all about. It barred French and German companies from competing for US$18.7 billion in contracts for
Anita Lumbus
Two Afghan proverbs: "A broken hand can work but a broken heart can't" and "What you do to your enemies today, you will do to your friends tomorrow".
Ali is 11 years old and lives in the Western Australian coastal town of Albany. He
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