By Jonathan Strauss
PERTH — How can one judge the significance of election results? Not by the number of seats won, if the February 6 WA elections are any guide.
In the lower house of WA's parliament, the Liberals (28 seats) and
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By Maurice Sibelle
BRISBANE — Hundreds of people gathered in the Queen Street Mall on February 12 to protest against the Brisbane City Council ban on political activity there. This was the second Friday evening action against the council's
Forum calls for Hilton inquiry
By Richard Davis
SYDNEY — On February 13, 15 years after the Hilton bombing, a public forum organised by the Justice Campaign for Hilton Bomb Victims renewed calls for a joint NSW-federal government
By Dick Nichols
The Australian voter who is heartily fed up with Labor and knows that Hewson and Co will be worse has another problem — which of the "third parties" should be trusted with his or her vote on March 13?
The third party
Discriminating
"I think all of them." — Yossef Harish, Israeli cabinet legal adviser, when asked before the Israeli Supreme Court how many Palestinian residents of the occupied territories are terrorists.
Under control
"The
Walk-off at submarine site
By Chris Spindler
Adelaide — Some 200 Automotive, Metal and Engineering Union members at the Osborne submarine construction site struck on February 11 after the Australian Submarine Corporation classified
Shetland anger turns on officials
By Catherine Brown
Anger on Shetland over the use of dispersants on the Braer oil spill last month has deepened after the government's admission that some of the chemicals used failed the Agriculture
Free Kuwait?
Connections: Free Kuwait
SBS Television
Screens Friday, February 26, 8.30 p.m. (8 p.m. in Adelaide)
This hard-hitting documentary made by Britain's Channel Four looks at how non-Kuwaitis are suffering persecution,
Young activists call day of action
By Sean Malloy
The youth activist organisation, Resistance, is planning a national day of action on March 8 to highlight the Labor and Liberal attacks on young people's rights and living standards.
By Alex Bainbridge
Education is one of the indicators traditionally used to gauge the level of civilisation, social justice and democracy in a society. Now it appears that both the major parties are committed to deregulating and privatising
By Gerry Harant
There is far more wrong with Paul Ehrlich's formula I=PA (or I=PAT in its extended form) than GLW correspondence and articles have so far suggested. Both the form and the contents of Ehrlich's statement are ideologically
Bougainville war crimes inquiry
By Bill Mason
BRISBANE — A public inquiry into war crimes by the Papua New Guinea government against the people of Bougainville has been set for Saturday, February 20, at the Axion Room, University of
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