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Bad Bosses
It could only come from Tony Abbott: an impassioned defence of bad bosses that manages to dismisses the experience of every worker who has ever been done over at work.
Interview: Media Magnet
Labor's communications spokesman Lindsay Tanner on Telstra, pay TV, Murdoch and Packer and other media dilemmas.
Bad Boss: Abbott's Heroes
The first nominee in our Bad Boss quest is a man who runs his call centre as though it were a primary school classroom.
Technology: All in the Family
LaborNET's tentacles continue to spread with this week's launch of the New Zealand Council of Trade Union's site.
International: New Labour's Cracks
The British labour movement has plunged itself into another round of tit-for-tat insults flying between the Blair Government and the trade unions, reports Andrew Casey.
Economics: Virtuality Check
Is the Internet Bill Gates' guide to wealth and power or the key to liberation from alienation and corporate power? A new book weighs the arguments.
History: Necessary Utopias
Neale Towart looks at the impact of the Robens Report to argue that worker control of industry is where OHS should be heading.
Poetry: Let Me Bring Love
The Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations, the Honourable Tony Abbott, has made an offer that the Australian worker will find hard to resist: 'where there is hatred, let me bring love'.
Review: How Not To Get It Together
Together is a belated reminder that it takes more than high ideals and the right intentions to turn a commune into a community.
Satire: NZ, UK Added to Australia�s Migration Zone
In an effort to increase support for its plan to remove 30,000 islands from the Australian migration exclusion zone, the federal government has added New Zealand and England to the list of excluded islands.
 Revealed: The Evidence Cole Won�t Touch
Search for Bad Bosses Begins
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Chifley Planners Lose Benefits
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Regional Councils Call Jobs Summit
Kiwi Ex-Pats Targeted for Poll Push
Shangri-La Workers Still Fighting
Korean Unionist Freed
Activists Notebook
The Soapbox
The Bush Telegraph
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The Tennis Racket
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Capitalism in Crisis
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Between the Sheets
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Poetry
Let Me Bring Love
The Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations, the Honourable Tony Abbott, has made an offer that the Australian worker will find hard to resist: 'where there is hatred, let me bring love'.
There's something poetic...in an Orwellian sort of way...about this language of love and cooperation.
LET ME BRING LOVE
Let me bring love, right across our great nation,
Let me bring peace, workplace cooperation.
Let me bring love, where once all was lost,
Love me like you know you should love your boss.
I'll treasure and meet individual needs,
Our interests are bound in our mutual deeds.
Lets all work together, we're part of one team,
Let's all pull together, although it does seem
That one of two of you have wandered astray,
And have talked about unions! - well you'll rue the day
You cavorted with men by such evil possessed!
You'll burn in hell and!...oh dear, I've digressed.
Let me bring love, you'll adore me so much,
I'll spread peace and kindness with one loving touch.
You'll know with my love we'll forever bond,
Let me just rub on my long magic wand.
If you stay true to me you'll feel naught but joy,
Just as long as you don't act like those naughty boys
Who spoke to a union, as soon as I find
Them I'll crush them like ants! like the rest of their kind!
I'll find every one and I'll squeeze out their blood!
Their children will burn and then drown in wild floods!
I'll...ahem...bring love to this land. True workplace harmony
Will flow from this love like a heart's symphony.
The boss and the worker will lay down as one,
We'll be so productive, we'll have so much fun,
As we gaze longingly into each other's eyes,
I'll play gentle tunes as we all rhapsodise,
About the pure grace of our perfect communion.
Apart from those misled souls who joined a union.
Those low-life blood-sucking leeches and scum,
Who would tear apart the fabric of this country if we let them infect people with their vile hatred it's intolerable that we have to put up with these traitors in our midst, you know they're worse than terrorists! They eat their children and they'll eat yours and mine too if we let them breed. Destroy each and every one of them! Burn them! I say burn them! God, I hate them! Hanging's too good for them we must make an example of...
ahem
Let me bring love, you can trust me to be
An angel of peace, and tranquility.
Let me bring love, I swear it's all true:
It's a pure non-core promise I'm making to you.
Let me bring peace, workplace cooperation.
Let me bring love, where once all was lost,
Love me like you know you should love your boss.
I'll treasure and meet individual needs,
Our interests are bound in our mutual deeds.
Lets all work together, we're part of one team,
Let's all pull together, although it does seem
That one of two of you have wandered astray,
And have talked about unions! - well you'll rue the day
You cavorted with men by such evil possessed!
You'll burn in hell and!...oh dear, I've digressed.
Let me bring love, you'll adore me so much,
I'll spread peace and kindness with one loving touch.
You'll know with my love we'll forever bond,
Let me just rub on my long magic wand.
If you stay true to me you'll feel naught but joy,
Just as long as you don't act like those naughty boys
Who spoke to a union, as soon as I find
Them I'll crush them like ants! like the rest of their kind!
I'll find every one and I'll squeeze out their blood!
Their children will burn and then drown in wild floods!
I'll...ahem...bring love to this land. True workplace harmony
Will flow from this love like a heart's symphony.
The boss and the worker will lay down as one,
We'll be so productive, we'll have so much fun,
As we gaze longingly into each other's eyes,
I'll play gentle tunes as we all rhapsodise,
About the pure grace of our perfect communion.
Apart from those misled souls who joined a union.
Those low-life blood-sucking leeches and scum,
Who would tear apart the fabric of this country if we let them infect people with their vile hatred it's intolerable that we have to put up with these traitors in our midst, you know they're worse than terrorists! They eat their children and they'll eat yours and mine too if we let them breed. Destroy each and every one of them! Burn them! I say burn them! God, I hate them! Hanging's too good for them we must make an example of...
ahem
Let me bring love, you can trust me to be
An angel of peace, and tranquility.
Let me bring love, I swear it's all true:
It's a pure non-core promise I'm making to you.
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