BY EVA CHENG
The Northern Alliance on November 12 created a huge problem for the United States by seizing Afghanistan's capital, Kabul, before a post-Taliban government could be cobbled together. US and British diplomats are hard at work to create
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BY ALEX BAINBRIDGE
HOBART — A Hobart City Council committee decided on November 15 to recommend a motion to the full council that would "continue to refuse requests to sell and distribute newspapers and other goods [in the Elizabeth Street mall]
BY SARAH STEPHEN
Since the Coalition's election win on November 10 the backlash against the government's attack on asylum seekers, a policy that was wholeheartedly supported by the federal Labor opposition, has continued to grow.
Former Liberal
In the November 10 federal election the Socialist Alliance averaged 1% in the 15 House of Representatives seats in which it stood candidates. How good is this result? What does it mean when the Greens nearly doubled their vote from 2.4% to 4.7%? What
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BY DANNY FAIRFAX & SEAN HEALY
The World Trade Organisation's choice of the Persian emirate of Qatar as the venue for its fourth ministerial meeting was supposed to avoid massive protests. In the end, it only spread them to every corner of the
BY PAUL OBOOHOV
CANBERRA — Left-wing public service unionists in the national capital have been stymied in their attempts to prevent a union restructure which would dissolve the ACT branch of the Community and Public Sector Union.
The ACT
BY EMA CORRO
MELBOURNE - Young Arab women have hit out at the stereotypes of Islam and the racism they're subjected to.
"As an Arab I feel that my race is feared, not trusted and not liked and this is growing. But if the myths being promoted
BY MAX LANE
On November 11, a panel of three judges in Banda Aceh handed down their findings after two weeks of hearings in the case brought by the Indonesian National Police against Kautsar, a central leader of the Acehnese freedom movement.
BY ANGELA LUVERA
SYDNEY — Citing racist attacks on women perpetrated since September 11, feminists have called a rally and march to oppose war and racism on International Women's Day 2002.
"With no real evidence the United States declared many
BY MATT EGAN
GRAFTON — In the first action against the US war in Afghanistan held in the Clarence Valley region of northern NSW, 100 people joined a high school walkout and rallied in Grafton on November 9.
The organisers included local
Private thoughts
In the aftermath of September 11 a press "debate" has begun on the value of privacy. Support is being canvassed for a thinly disguised version of George Orwell's Big Brother.
The September 13 Washington Post electronic edition,
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