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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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PNG Women Visit Australia
Jane Kesno and Pricilla Kare of the PNG Labor Party will visit Australia for a week of meetings, networking and fundraising from March 18.
During last years' visit to PNG by an ACTU delegation, the PNG National Women's Council stressed the huge need to address the lack of PNG women in the Parliament and decision making forums. They said that women need political representation to ensure that women-friendly policies, legislation and national programs are pursued.
The newly formed Labor Party is the first political group in PNG to express a woman-inclusive agenda for Government.
Co-ordinator of the women's faction of the PNG Labor Party, Jane Kesno said the party has so far identified six women candidates for the coming elections. Ms Kesno said women need to be encouraged to take up the challenge and be encouraged to contest and provide good leadership, something, which has been missing for many years.
Pricilla Kare was elected Vice-President of the Party at the first conference of the Women's Wing in February. Pricilla will be contesting the Kerema seat held by Sir Thomas Koraea.
In discussions with Jane Kesno, it was confirmed that the women candidates and party organisation are in need of assistance in the form of money, training, invaluable sharing of experiences, setting up networks and accessing useful material.
Events organised so far for their visit include a function at Parliament House hosted by Meredith Burgmann on the 21st of March and a fundraiser at the NSW Labor Council Annual Women's Dinner on the 22nd March.
Funds are urgently needed to assist with airfares. $1700 is required. So far $200 has been donated by the NSW IEU.
Any offers sincerely welcome, cheques can be made payable to PNG Solidarity Action and directed to Sandra White at the NSW Independent Education Union, GPO Box 116, Sydney 2001 or call Sandra on 9202 2600 or 0408 477 301 for further information.
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