Issue No 116 | 19 October 2001 | |
Trades HallPaul Howes Web Week
Our volatile cyber-brat goes looking for some campaign inspiration on the web. **************** Our favourite political game from the Roadkill Party - allows you to wreak the type of revenge on Howard that he deserves - send him onto the road in search of a steak, then clean up the mess! http://www.iconart.com/roadkillparty/ Political Big Brother: Four gone: Abbott, Bishop, Anderson and Reith. The site is drawing a couople of thousands votes each round - a perfect breeding ground for young stackers. Currently up for reviction are Amanda Vanstone (the Sara-Marie of the House - with lots of nominations but no evictions), Michael Wolldridge and Robert Hill - who went within two votes of eviction in week one. http://www.politicalbigbrother.com JJJ's Election Site oprovides heaps of background information on the political parties, the process and the policy. They are also seeking listeners to http://triplej.abc.net.au/elections/default.htm On a more serious note .... A special website set up by Workers Online contributor Jim McDonald, senior Lecturer in Industrial Relations at Uni of Southern Queensland, It's the most comprehensive hub of political info we've come across this campaign - and about the only place where you can compare industrial relations policies. And on a practical note .... Ansett workers are attempting to keep the bastards honest with an online price watch on rip-offs post Ansett collapse - all the tips come form the public and show what curry Qantas is making from the Ansett demise. http://www.ansett.goodvalue.com.au/guestbook/pricewatch.cfm And keep in touch with the Ansett news as it unfolds at the ACTU's special campaign page: http://www.actu.asn.au And Victorian ASU Ansett workers have their own page as well: http://www.asuvic.org/asuvic_campaign/private_sector_div/20010911_42.html
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Interview: The Green Machine Nick Bolkus outlines Labor's environmental stance and lays down the gauntlet to Bob Brown's Greens. Industrial: Regaining Control France�s 35 hour week stems from the program of the Left coalition government which went to the polls in June 1997 with the policy of �worksharing�. Unions: Home Of The Longest Day Australia has a dubious new prize to put in its cluttered national trophy cabinet. We are increasingly the most over-worked nation in the world. Campaign Diary: Week Two: Fightback Labor's doing everything to win a normal campaign - but this is no normal campaign. Economics: Who Will Notice When You Die? Johann Christoph Arnold asks whether the anti-globalisation movement is the answer to an epidemic of loneliness. History: American Terror Incredible revelations about the work of the US National Security Agency through the Cold War years help put the current War of Terror into perspective. International: Global Day of Action In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks in the US last week, the ICFTU has announced that preparations for the Global Unions Day of Action on November 9 will go ahead. Satire: World Gripped by Fear as Howard Third Term Looms The global community has uniformly condemned the recent terrorist attacks, which horrifically helped revive the re-election prospects of John Howard. Review: Flashbacks Cultural theortician Neale Towart consults his record collection in a bid to understand the chaos gripping the earth.
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