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Power Plays
Depending on where you sit, the decision by a State Labor Government to sell off the division of the power industry responsible for its long-term planning is either bold or reckless.
Interview: Still Flying
ACTU Secretary Greg Combet looks beyond the bid to save Ansett to a broader union agenda for 2002.
Women: Suffrage or Suffering
Alison Peters marks International Women's Day by surveying the achievements - and shortcomings - of a century of female suffrage.
Industrial: No Coco Pops For Brenda
The working poor get short shrift from the hypocritical Minister For Workplace Relations says Noel Hester.
Unions: Back to the Heartland
Lidcombe, western Sydney. A boring cultural desert, right? Wrong, wrong and wrong again according to CFMEU officials who talked to Jim Marr about relocating their headquarters to a working class base.
Activists: Getting to the Point
Rowan Cahill reports on a development battle that has fractured a South Coast community and the role the union movement has played to drive a just outcome.
International: Push Polling
On the eve of elections in Zimbabwe, trade unionists are paying the price for their commitment to democracy.
Economics: Debt Defaulters
Amidst the colour and movement of CHOGM little was said about the pressing issue of debt relief, writes Thea Ormond.
Poetry: Those Were the Days
The Golden Wing lounges have closed. The last of the commiserating Ansett workers have long since departed those makeshift taverns.
Review: Black Hawk Dud
If you want to find out exactly what went wrong during the US Marines' 1993 peacekeeping operation in Mogadishu in Somalia, do not see Black Hawk Down.
Satire: Fox-Lew Launch Rescue Bid for Beta Video
Businessmen Solomon Lew and Lindsay Fox have shocked the financial sector with a daring bid to rescue the communications giant Beta Video.
Egan Sells His Brains
Spying Bill Targets Strikers
Dunny Wars: Will Workers Carry the Can?
Drivers Appeal To Commuters
New Tack on Asylum Seekers
Go Forth and Multiply � Unions on Women
Howard Shuts Workers Out Of Steel Talks
Questions Remain As Rio Rings Changes
Labor Hire Swifty Exposed
Unions Fight 'Industrial Blackmail'
AIRC in Contracting Debacle
Mayne Chance For A Wage Deal
IT Workers Get Their Own Geek Scopes
PNG Women Visit Australia
Brazilian Unions Study Aussie Experience
No Shangri-la in Jakarta
Activists Notebook
The Soapbox
Love Thy Neighbour
Bruce Childs explains why he's reactivated the Palm Sunday committee to take a stand for refugees. The Locker Room
Debt Before Dishonour
In a week that featured allegations of drugs in footy, fast horses and faster cars, Phil Doyle struggled to keep up. Week in Review
Bullies Rule, OK?
Jim Marr considers a week which highlighted the absolute joy of being big, rich and powerful in a lassez faire world. Tool Shed
Leader of the Free World
George W Bush barricades himself in this week's Tool Shed with the sort of double standards that gives world domination a bad name.
How to Beat the Banks
Collins Goes Cahill
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Satire
Fox-Lew Launch Rescue Bid for Beta Video
Extracted from The Chaser
Businessmen Solomon Lew and Lindsay Fox have shocked the financial sector with a daring bid to rescue the communications giant Beta Video.
Following their failed bid to save Ansett, the entrepreneurs have turned their attention to what Fox refers to as "another once-in-a-lifetime opportunity."
"I'm very excited about Beta video's future," announced Fox. "If we stick together on this one, I reckon we can get this company back to the days it enjoyed a 0.3% market share."
However, it isn't all smooth sailing for Fox and Lew's new Oedivateb consortium, with the government baulking at Fox and Lew's exhaustive list of demands, estimated as amounting to nearly $2000.
"Look, we're doing what we can to see this deal through," Richard Alston, the Minister for Communications. "Obviously, we're desperate to save the six jobs associated with the company, even if they're only voluntary positions. But of most concern if Beta goes under is the potential for VHS to enjoy a virtual monopoly."
The consortium's list of demands includes a government indemnity of the Beta workfleet's accrued entitlements, with Davo owed as much as $45 worth of Black Stump Restaurant coupons from last year's Melbourne Cup sweep and Trev owed a date with Kevin's sister after lending Kevin his Playstation.
The company's major creditors, Kevin's parents, who have loaned Beta Video the use of their basement for the last twenty five years, are currently holding talks about the proposed acquisition but are said to still hold hopes for a partnership with the more reliable team of Jodee Rich and Brad Keeling.
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