Max Lane
On March 3, Philippines President Gloria Arroyo lifted the state of emergency that she had declared a week earlier. Arroyo claimed she had successfully prevented a coup, yet no details of this coup attempt have been made public. The week
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Doug Lorimer
In an 11-page report on Iran's nuclear program circulated on February 27 to the governing board of the UN's Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency in advance of its March 6 meeting, IAEA director-general Mohammed ElBaradei
Bernie Stephens, Harare
With the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) divided down the middle, President Robert Mugabe would have celebrated his 82nd birthday in February with temporary respite.
The MDC split in the lead-up to last
Women are oppressed, not because it's "natural", but because the system requires it. In most previous societies, except the earliest forms of hunter-gatherer communities, a woman's role was determined by the family to which she belonged and the man
Peter Boyle
"The thing I love most about politics is the game playing", wrote Sydney Morning Herald economics editor Ross Gittins recently. "It's such fun working out the true motives for the things pollies do."
Gittins was writing about the
Kerry Vernon, Sydney
Domestic violence victim Adele Lynch and her son, Mason, may be alive today if domestic violence resources had been available. The Campbelltown area in NSW has the highest incidence of metropolitan domestic violence in
CANBERRA — Thousands of ACT teachers are to strike this month as part of a campaign of industrial action for better pay. The ACT government offered 4000 teachers, in ACT public schools and the Canberra Institute of Technology, a pay increase of 9%
SYDNEY — Forty-five university students from Canberra, rural NSW, Newcastle, Wollongong and inner Sydney campuses attended the March 3 NSW Queer Students Network conference.
The conference decided to continue to fight against the Howard
TONGA: Public servants threaten new strike
A Tonga Public Service Association meeting on February 24 decided to go on strike if the government fails to meet its demands. The union is calling for the 40% balance of agreed upon wage increases to be
Kim Bullimore
The January 25 Palestinian elections not only delivered a landslide victory to the Islamic resistance group Hamas, it also resulted in a record number of women being elected to the Palestinian Legislative Council.
Thirteen women —
Spoiling the party
I hate to spoil Howard's party but in 1996 we were not at war. The International Court of Justice outlawed nuclear weapons. No child of Middle-Eastern appearance had been compensated for mental torture. Women worked for equal
Dave Holmes
The ALP is undergoing a process of "renewal" as a clutch of ambitious right-wing trade union officials seek preselection against Victorian sitting federal MPs.
In the Melbourne seat of Maribyrnong, Labor shadow frontbencher Bob
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