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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.

F E A T U R E S

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.

N E W S

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

C O L U M N S

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�

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Wednesday Politics at Berkelouw

Organised by the Pluto Institute and the NSW Fabian Society.

Berkelouw Bookshop

70 Norton Street, Leichhardt

Wednesday, 17 July 2002

6.30 - 8.00 pm

Beyond Corporate Globalism: Is Another World Possible?

Launch of the new book from Pluto Press, Protest and Globalisation: Prospects for Transnational Solidarity

Patricia Ranald

Public Interest Advocacy Centre and Australian Fair Trade & Investment Network.

Ruth Phillips

Lecturer in Social Policy, University of Sydney

Marc Williams

Professor of Politics and International Relations, University of NSW

James Goodwin (Chair)

Lecturer in Social Inquiry, University of Technology Sydney.

Wednesday, 7 August 2002

6.30 - 8.00 pm

Local Heroes: Australian Crusades from the Environmental Frontline

Seminar to launch the book that tells the story of ordinary people who become environmental heroes in taking on large corporations and governments to make their communities safer.

In the process of seeking justice, these citizens learned how to become passionate activists for disenfranchised communities and to articulate a vision for a cleaner planet.

The Ecopella Choir conducted by Miguel Heatwole will give a specail performance at the opening.

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NSW Teachers Federation Rally to Save Public Schools

Monday 8 July 2002, 1.00 pm

Department of Education Building, Farrer Place, Sydney

Hunters Hill High School, Erskineville Public School, Redfern Public School fight on!

Prevent the closures and protest the sale of Maroubra High School to a private school.

For more information contact the NSW Teachers Federation on 02 9217 2100 or visit http://www.nswtf.org.au

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Free Burma Fundraiser

Saturday, July 6 2002

CFMEU, 12 Railway Street, Lidcombe

Live Burmese Music and DJs from Macquarie University. BBQ and dancing late into the night. All proceeds from the night go to Burmese Refugee Children. Cost $5.00.

For more information contact Phil Davey on 0414 867 188 or Maung Maung Than on 0411 337 816.

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Crisis in Corporate Governance - Ansett, HIH, One.Tel

Sydney Politics in the Pub

26 July 2002, 6.00 pm

Gaelic Club, 64 Devonshire Street, Surry Hills

Hear Stephen Mayne, Publisher of www.crikey.com.au, discuss the crisis in Corporate Governance.

See http://www.politicsinthepub.org for more details.

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