Anna Samson Five minutes before it was scheduled for debate in the Senate on August 15, PM John Howard pulled the Migration Amendment (Designated Unauthorised Arrivals) Bill from the program. Had the DUA bill become law, it would have resulted in
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Rachel Evans & Farida Iqbal Four thousand people rallied on August 13 to mark the second anniversary of the Australian government's ban on same-sex marriage. People in seven cities and four rural towns joined the national protest, which condemned
Alex Bainbridge, Sydney On August 15, the Sydney Inner West branch of the Socialist Alliance preselected anti-war activist Pip Hinman as its candidate for the seat of Marrickville in the March 24 NSW election. The alliance will run an in-your-face
Dave Riley The burgeoning number of crises facing the Queensland Labor government has prompted Premier Peter Beattie to opt for an early election. Rather than wait for matters to worsen, especially the dwindling water supply in the state's south
Stuart Munckton Four people implicated in violent opposition campaigns against the government of socialist President Hugo Chavez escaped from the Ramos Verde military prison on August 13. The former head of the corrupt right-wing Confederation of
NEWCASTLE — On August 15, 200 protesters, mostly of high-school age, rallied in Civic Park before marching into the Town Hall chanting "save the Loft". They were protesting against the Newcastle City Council's attempt to cut costs by reducing
'Calming' Baghdad "Iraq, US Forces Raid Sadr City to Calm Baghdad" — Headline on US Bloomberg news service report on an August 7 US-led military attack that set off a two-hour gun battle with supporters of anti-US Shiite cleric Moqtada al Sadr.
MELBOURNE — On August 16, 60 workers employed by the Moonee Valley City Council attended a lunch-time rally to protest against attacks on the working conditions of library workers. Australian Services Union assistant secretary Brian Parkinson told
Linda Seaborn, Hobart Major Michael Mori, the US military lawyer for Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks, addressed an 800-strong public meeting on August 18. The meeting was organised by Amnesty International. Hicks, 31, from Adelaide, has spent
Annolies Truman, Perth Beginning August 6 residents of Lancelin, a seaside town 123 kilometres north of Perth, have been subjected to the effects of US military exercises conducted in the Lancelin Defence Training Area (DTA). US Navy pilots
Kim Bullimore "The responsibility for the military operation rests on my shoulders as prime minister. I have no intention and do not wish to share this responsibility with another", Israeli PM Ehud Olmert told the Knesset, Israel's parliament. An
Doug Lorimer In a cynical attempt to justify Washington's backing for Israel's month-long campaign of hundreds of daily terror bombings of Lebanon — carried out with US-supplied warplanes, jet fuel and missiles — US President George Bush
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