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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
WorkCover to Set Up Crimes Unit
Electricians Oppose Family-Busting Conditions
Blue-Collar Blokes Back Mat Leave
Murdoch Telegraphs Contracts Push
Abbot Changes Rules for “Employer Advocate”
Gucci's Label Tarnished
Funding Cuts Drives Academics Mad
Star City Casino Strike On The Cards
Chifley Planners Lose Benefits
Qantas Staff Sick of Shivering
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
Telstra’s poor performance in the bush is not just about reception, argues the CEPU's Ian McCarthy The Locker Room
The Tennis Racket
You would think that child labour would have gone the way of bus conductors and public telephones that work, but this is not necessarily the case, writes Phil Doyle. Bosswatch
Capitalism in Crisis
The collapse of a US telco has sent shockwaves around the globe and undermined trust in a system that rewards hype and dishonesty. Week in Review
Between the Sheets
This column is heartily sick of being called solid, reliable and old-fashioned so Jim Marr gets with the program and discovers this is, in fact, an up-and-down, in-and-out sort of world…
Lessons from Air Disaster
Buggering the Bush
The Great Giveaway
Down and Out
Why I hate Telstra
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Letters to the Editor
The Great Giveaway
Dear Sir
Who in their right mind would give away 3,000 islands? The answer to that is simple: no-one.
But the Prime Minister of Australia, who is showing increased signs of having passed his "Use By" date (well and truly before his 64th birthday), has proposed doing just that in his now obsessional determination to justify his deceitful re-election tactics last year.
Geography not being one of my stronger points, I am in fact astonished to learn that these islands are a part of Australia. But to excise them in his continuing desperate bid to discourage illegal immigrants would surely be the act of a madman.
The first thought that came to mind was that islands ... any islands ... are potential tourist resorts. And it would obviously cost the tourist from overseas less to offload at Darwin and be ferried to whichever of these islands some entrepreneur has chosen to develop, than to visit the Great Barrier Reef and other resorts via Brisbane.
But my second thought was quite awesome. As the world's population continues to rise, the grossly under populated Lucky Country must appear an increasingly tempting target for serious invasion. And how convenient it would be for the invading country to use these islands as stepping stones to enter Australia via its least defendable coastline.
Additionally I don't believe that selling off all our major airports to private ownership would actually prove a wise strategic move in the event of some future invasion.
Mr Howard: will you please give your obsession a rest and come up with some legislation that has more than a snowflake's chance in hell of getting through the Senate?
Julian Hancock
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