On February 16, ABC News featured the US military prosecutor Colonel Morris Davis vilifying Adelaide father of two David Hicks as a war criminal. Davis would not specify when Hicks would be brought before a military tribunal of the type that was ruled illegal by the US Supreme Court last June but reinstituted by Congress a few months later.
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An article by Adele Horin in the February 15 Sydney Morning Herald reported the findings of a world authority on income inequality, Sir Anthony Atkinson, of Oxford University, which he presented at a seminar at the social policy research centre at the University of NSW.
The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and Global Footprint Network聮s 2006 report, Living Planet, released last October, painted a grim picture of the calamitous state of the world聮s environment. It warned that human activities are outstripping the natural world聮s capacity to regenerate.
"Twenty-five and 30 years ago, like a lot of other Australians I was involved in actions and activities across this country [against US bases]. Of course you change your mind about some things over time, no one listening to this interview would
Protest Cheney鈥檚 visit! Join the protests against US Vice-President Dick Cheney鈥檚 visit. Sydney * 5.30pm, February 22, Sydney Town Hall * 8am, February 23, Shangri-la Hotel, cnr. Essex and George Streets, the Rocks Phone Simon on 0438 297 552 or Paddy on 0415 800 586 Canberra * 5pm, February 23, Garema Place, Civic Phone James on 0403 943 529
At a meeting in Melbourne on February 8 journalist and film-maker John Pilger hailed Shirley Shackleton as one of Australia聮s 聯heroes聰. He praised her tireless dedication, since 1975, in exposing the genocide in East Timor and in pursuing the truth about the death of five journalists in Balibo, East Timor. One of the journalists killed was her husband Greg Shackleton.
鈥淲e, and millions of people around the world 鈥 believe another world is possible, a world free from war, poverty and hunger. Here in Venezuela the [government of socialist President Hugo Chavez] along with the majority of the people in our country are fighting hard to build this new world, despite the attempts of the old elite and the US government to prevent us from succeeding.鈥 This is what 25-year-old university student Germania Fernandez told Pablo Navarrete, according to a December 1 article on Venezuelanalysis.com.
Aslyum seekers
On February 15, the US government agreed to offer asylum to 7000 Iraqi refugees who had left their homeland and had been waiting in third countries such as Jordan and Syria. A US team is scheduled to go to Amman, Jordan, on February
The Howard government聮s Work Choices laws are not bringing about 聯a more flexible, simpler and fairer system of workplace relations for Australia聰, as the Howard government likes to argue, according to two recent damning research papers. The studies also disprove Canberra聮s claim that the laws have improved productivity, increased wages, balanced work and family life and reduced unemployment.
Azad Arman, a socialist from the Kurdish region of northern Iraq who fled his homeland in 1991 and is now living in Australia, said life in Iraqi Kurdistan today is 聯miserable聰.
A disturbing trend is spreading across Australian universities 聴 some universities have begun barring political groups from orientation week (o-week) events.
聯I voted yes and will always vote yes聰, Reuters quoted Laurinda Duarte as saying. 聯Abortions will always take place so why not vote to allow women to carry them out under decent conditions? I am a Catholic but that does not mean I am not free to vote.聰
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