Sarah Stephen
Addressing a Queensland state council meeting of the Liberal Party on November 12, PM John Howard said: "It is the responsibility, particularly of the leaders of the Islamic community, to ensure as best they can, with our cooperation,
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SYDNEY — NSW Police has had to introduce new methods to control their officers during high-speed car chases, according to the November 11 Sydney Morning Herald.
An investigation by the newspaper found that 62 people have died since 1994 as a
Zoe Kenny
Young people joined the November 15 national day of action against the industrial relations laws determined to not only lampoon PM John Howard, but also highlight that young workers will suffer under these laws. The socialist youth
Karen Fletcher, Melbourne
Five cramped busloads of workers from the Ford factory at Broadmeadows were among the quarter of a million people who flooded inner-city Melbourne on November 15 to rally against the federal government's radical attack on
On November 28, 1820, Frederick Engels was born in Barmen-Elberfeld (now Wuppertal, Germany). The young Karl Marx's interest in political economy was sparked by reading Engels' 1843 work Outlines of a Critique of Political Economy. Engels and Marx
Resistance Art in Canada has dedicated its 2006 calendar to the memory of Jabra Ibrahim Jabra (1920-1994), the pioneer Palestinian artist, novelist, poet and critic. The calendar includes 12 artworks by Palestinian artists from different corners of
Leslie Richmond, Adelaide
On November 17, protesters rallied against the visit to Adelaide of US war secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who arrived to attend the annual Australia-United States Ministerial Consultations (AUSMIN).
The AUSMIN talks, at
Rohan Pearce
"Tonight, Iraqi security and coalition forces kicked off offensive operations to eliminate the terrorist and insurgent safe haven in Fallujah and to restore control to the Iraqi government", US General George Casey told a press
International trade union solidarity website Labourstart.org has just launched LabourStart TV. The website offers TV news and videos on union struggles across the globe. Coverage of Australia's November 15 protest actions against the federal
The word "McLibel" has been added to Macmillan's online dictionary, defined as "a British court action for libel (the illegal act of writing false statements about someone) filed by the McDonald's corporation against environmental activists". In
Robert Alcock, Sydney
Thank you, thank you John Howard and Philip Ruddock for the new sedition laws that became the target of ridicule on November 13. Tears rolled — not from fear but from laughter — at the performances by some of the country's
John Pilger
I was dropped at Paradiso, the last middle-class area before barrio La Vega, which spills into a ravine as if by the force of gravity. Storms were forecast, and people were anxious, remembering the mudslides that took 20,000 lives. "Why
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