By Richard Stone Reviews of the recently declassified cabinet papers from the Howard coalition government twenty years ago in mainstream Australian media have tended to gloss over the significance of two closely related matters. Other related declassified material, already in the public domain, however, can be easily accessed to show how controversial matters have been down-played to enable Canberra to …

By Art Museum Workers On 19th of March 2003, then US President George W. Bush addressed the nationthat “American and coalition forces are in the early stages of military operations todisarm Iraq, to free its people and to defend the world from grave danger.” On the20th of March, then Australian Prime Minister John Howard announced that Australiawas to be involved …