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A group of Iraqi women recently met the US ambassador to Iraq in an effort to push the framers of Iraq's new constitution not to limit women's rights. Many Western feminist groups and some Iraqi women activists fear Islamic law, which if enshrined as

A mock trial of David Hicks held in front of PM John Howard's office on August 26 was organised by the Canterbury Bankstown Peace Group and Justice for Hicks and Habib Campaign.

David Hicks has now spent almost four years in Guantanamo Bay, the US prison in Cuba. Along with the rest of the prisoners, he has been classed as an "enemy combatant" - legal mumbo jumbo that strips him of any prisoner-of-war rights he'd be entitled to under the Geneva Conventions.

A protest was held outside James Hardie's shareholders' meeting on August 19. I am a city-based Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) site delegate. Over the years, many of us construction workers have seen workmates become ill and die because of the effects of working with asbestos products made by James Hardie.

Simon Butler, Newcastle The Newcastle City Council motion passed in late July to stop companies who force their employees onto Australia Workplace Agreements (AWAs) from receiving council contracts, has come under fire from local business groups,

A new report by the University of Sydney's Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies and Elsham, the Institute for Human Rights Study and Advocacy based in Jayapura, was launched at Parliament House in Canberra on August 18.

The battle for freedom over tyranny
Is the battle of remembering over forgetting. — Milan Kundera.

Two-hundred protesters converged on the Adelaide Festival Theatre on August 27, where PM John Howard was addressing the state Liberal Party's annual general meeting. 

The photograph accompanying the article "The demise of university education" in GLW #639 was taken by Johanna Trainor.

Due to a sub-editing error, the article "Letty Scott drops charges" in GLW #639 mistakenly reported that "Douglas Scott was found hanging by a bed sheet in his prison cell in July 1985".

To grasp the real consequence Barnaby Joyce's choice on the Telstra privatisation, we need to count in billions of dollars, unused to that as we ordinary folk are.

On the box — OrthodykesMessage Stick: Wayne Atkinson, Cutting Edge: Beslan, Grass, The Cirlce and The Mary G Show.