ATO blames GST for budget blow-out
MELBOURNE On June 4, a Senate estimates committee was told that the Australian Tax Office has paid $860 million to IT services company EDS over the last five years. The contract's original budget was $480
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BY IGGY KIM
In the face of mounting casualties and humanitarian crisis in Aceh, foreign minister Alexander Downer reaffirmed Canberra's support for Jakarta's war.
Speaking to CNN during the recent ASEAN regional forum, Downer stated that "the
BY ROHAN PEARCE
"I really qualify it as militarily insignificant. They are very small, they are very random, they are very ineffective", Major General Ray Odierno, commander of the US Army's 4th Infantry Division, told a June 18 press briefing from
BY ROHAN PEARCE
British Prime Minister Tony Blair is under increasing pressure to justify his government's support for the US-led invasion of Iraq. Having based his support on the claim that Iraq possessed a substantial arsenal of weapons of mass
BY ALLEN MYERS
PHNOM PENH A garment worker and a police officer were killed on June 13 during a violent clash outside the Terratex Knitting and Garment International Factory Ltd. A large number of other workers and police were injured.
The
BY JULIE WEBB-PULLMAN
HAVANA Shortly before dawn on June 12, I joined the throngs pouring through my central Havana neighbourhood to gather on the Malecon, before marching on the Spanish embassy to protest against the recently released
BY DOUG LORIMER
On June 16, the governing board of the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) began discussing a report on Iran's nuclear program from the agency's director-general, Mohammad ElBaradei. Washington hopes to use the report to
BY VANNESSA HEARMAN
On the eve of an official visit to Jakarta, Timorese PM Mari Alkatiri on May 30 called for an international tribunal in a "neutral country" to try those responsible for serious crimes in his country in 1999. He likened the
BY RUTH RATCLIFFE
DARWIN "While I am on my feet, I would like to say very categorically that I welcome the very decisive sentencing that happened for those members of NAP [Network Against Prohibition] who invaded this parliament the May
Workers at Geelong Woolcombers have been locked out for seven weeks because they won't accept a 25% wage cut. The workers' have been encouraged by community and other union support. They welcome visitors, the 24-hour picket is at corner of Broderick
At the Liberal Women's Convention in Adelaide on June 9, PM John Howard threw up his latest strategy to combat the alleged "fertility crisis" a $5000 payment to all women who give birth.
Howard is describing this as an "alternative to
BY STEPHEN GARVEY
MELBOURNE The 77 workers at the ACI Mould Manufacturing factory in the eastern suburb of Box Hill were locked out of their workplace last week when they received management's latest proposals for the new enterprise
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