Two years ago, the Coalition government moved to change the criteria for the Disability Support Pension (DSP). The original bill was rejected by the Senate. Now, in its new term of office with a Senate majority from July 1, the same proposed changes
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Alison Dellit
On March 10, US district Court Judge Jack Weinstein dismissed a lawsuit brought by more than 100 Vietnamese victims of Agent Orange against the 37 corporations that manufactured the deadly chemical.
The plaintiffs claimed US
Bill Mason, Brisbane
While tensions continue to rise between the Aboriginal community on Palm Island, near Townsville, and the Queensland state Labor government, it has been revealed that some police officers involved in the "riot" on the island
Pip Hinman
Labor Senators had another opportunity on March 17 to demonstrate their party's opposition to the Iraq war. But they voted with the Coalition against a Greens motion supporting the peace movement's calls not to send more troops to Iraq.
Rohan Pearce
On March 16, Iraq's new 275-member National Assembly met for the first time since US-sponsored elections were held on January 30. The parliament met inside Baghdad's Green Zone — the US-controlled area that houses most of the
BRISBANE — The Festival of Women's Ideas into Action conference, held on March 3-4 at the Power House in New Farm turned into a conference on the crisis facing women's welfare services.
Attended by 200 women, most of them working in women's
Andrew Martin& Lynda Hansen, Brisbane
On March 7, 180 Australian Manufacturing Workers Union delegates, activists and officials met to discuss the AMWU's response to the anti-union industrial "reforms" that the Howard government plans to push
If only it were so
"Capitalism is in the process of destroying itself with such sorts of demands." — Patrick Artus, chief economist of French bank IXIS, commenting on the announcement by Germany's biggest bank, Deutsche Bank, that it will slash
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Britney Aguilera? Robbie Timberlake? Paulini Sebastian? I occasionally have the misfortune to watch ABC's Rage on a
Eva Cheng
Just as China completed its top leadership transition during the 10-day annual parliamentary session which ended on March 14, it upped the ante with Taiwan, seeking to intimidate any future efforts by the island to seek formal
On March 14, Saudi Arabian police raided a wedding hall, arresting 110 men in what authorities have described as a "gay wedding celebration". Eighty of the men were released, but 30 have been charged with various offences. Homosexuality is illegal in
Peter Boyle
Jess Melvin, a 20-year-old student of Inonesian studies at Sydney University recently returned from a week in Aceh with the CARE Aceh aid workers, told 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly that three months after the tsunami hundreds of thousands of
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