'It was the right decision, it was a just cause and it liberated the people'

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Australian Prime Minister John Howard might appoint a special envoy to Iraq to participate in all major decisions on rebuilding the war-torn nation, including the trial of Saddam Hussein's captured regime members and the launch of a new currency. The prime minister is also pushing forward the idea to restructure the UN Security Council after it's failure on Iraq, and bringing in Japan, Germany, Brazil, and Indonesia as permanent non-veto members.

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Ministry of propaganda

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Prime Minister John Howard has moved the Office of Government Information and Advertising into his own department, renaming it the Government Communications Unit. The move has raised concerns that the information service will become a propaganda tool for incumbent governments, compromising its independence. The government recently violated the Privacy Act by using pensioners' and veterans' personal information to market their tax reform package.

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Baghdad blowback

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Dr Saad Al Samarai, the senior Iraqi diplomat in Australia, says a US war against his country will create hundreds of millions of new terrorists. He says a war will be about oil, not weapons of mass destruction.

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