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Crean-ite Is Not A Dirty Word
Amongst the economic fundamentalists within Paul Keating's office, to be a Crean-ite was the ultimate insult. Today as their vision of an unregulated economic paradise gets the death wobbles, it should be worn as a badge of honour.
Interview: Trans Tasman
The head of the New Zealand trade union movement, Paul Goulter, outlines the importance of this weekend's Kiwi elections
Cole-Watch: The Full Story
In 20 years mainstream journalism around New Zealand, the UK and Australia, Jim Marr has never witnessed anything like the Cole Royal Commission into the Building and Construction Industry.
Unions: The Right To A Life
In the wake of this week's Reasonable Hours decision, it�s time to once again civilise working time, writes Noel Hester.
Bad Boss: Phoenix Rising
Eddie Lombardo just noses out fellow Royal Commission star Ferdinando Sanna for this week�s Bad Boss nomination.
Politics: The Virtuous State
Following Tasmania's first position in The State of the
States 2002, the ALP stormed home in the State poll, reports Christopher Sheil.
International: The Champions
They may be top of the world's football pile, but Brazil also has the dubious honour of 50 million living in poverty, writes Mark Weisbrot
History: Mandatory Mums
Women had been in revolt against �compulsory motherhood� for many years prior to the introduction of The Pill in the 1960s, Neale Towart discovers.
Corporate: Network Governance
A new way to govern public or private sector organisations is becoming urgent as society becomes more complex and dynamic, writes Shann Turnbull.
Review: Navigating The Doublespeak
How can you show a workforce the truth behind managerial doublespeak when the promise of big bucks is wooing them from their collective ideals? Offer them free tickets to Ken Loach's The Navigators and watch the penny drop.
Satire: Hector The Galah Found Hiding
Hector the Galah who was thought to have been stolen from West Ryde has been found hiding on the roof of a building in Surry Hills. He has resisted all attempts to capture him but when interviewed told the following story.
Poetry: Eight Days a Week
This week the Industrial Relations Commission came down with a decision in the reasonable hours case which, while a long way from what the ACTU wanted, could give a bit of steel to workers who want to take back what's theirs.
League to Blow Whistle on Sweat Shops
Rados Shames Ruddock Into Action
Virgin Contracts Spark Wage Rage
Jobs, Cargo Sail Over Horizon
Reasonable Hours Call to Arms
Big Tobacco Turns to Union-Busting
Athens Workers Pay Ultimate Price
Cranes At Risk in �August Winds�
Abbott�s Savings To Cost Workers
Trades Hall Revamp On Track
Top Nurse Bows Out
Name Caller Back to Work
Congo Unionists Need Help
Activists Notebook
The Soapbox
Crossing the Divide
Former Liberal PM Malcolm Fraser made history addressing the AMWU national conference on an issue of mutual concern - the treatment of asylum seekers The Locker Room
Lounge Named Best On Ground
The latest casualty of corporate sport is the loyal spectator on the hill, writes Phil Doyle Postcard
Appeasing Morocco Is Dangerous
Kamel Fadel updates on the latest developments in West Sahara's battle for independence.
Week in Review
Save the Last Dance ...
Labor and the Democrats swap places for the next dance at the political tango, while across the ditch, those darned Kiwis show big brother how it�s done � again! Bosswatch
Walls Come Tumbling Down
It was a week of carnage on the markets � and for a few former corporate high-fliers it was even uglier. Justice? Or just a system in decay?
No Need To Import IT Workers
Kangaroo Court Horrifies Reader
Site Reunites Redundant Workers
Carr Off Course
The Banners of Greed
Join The Party
Shocks and Stares
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Letters to the Editor
Carr Off Course
Bob Carr's recent media interviews urging "thematic campaigning" as an alternative to public policy formation for the federal ALP is not just dumb,it demonstrates that Bob Carr lacks integrity, is frightened of progressive public policy for the greater good, and that he is a weak scared little man with no regard for those who must wage for a living.
Only someone bereft of ideas who believes in gaining or staying in power at the expense of public policy would advocate the base concept of thematic campaigning.
The last two labor victories in NSW were achieved only because the Liberal opponents were so bad.
Are we the members of the labour movement still prepared to vote for him on the only basis that the opposition would be worse. Worse at what? Convincing Brad Pitt that Sydney is better place to make a film than the Gold Coast? Cost shifting to Medicare instead of increasing public health resources? Researching voters to find out what they wont be getting?
Bob Car needs to wage for a living and discover the realities of working for $14 to $15 dollars an hour where overtime is a precious commodity. He needs to explain why
the cost of car registration is almost twice that of Victoria, why public transport is increasingly unsafe, why the public health system cannot meet the needs of a person
with a broken finger.
Bob Carr should stop lecturing the Federal ALP with dumb ideas and try to understand that he is a Labor Premier who should be listening to the labour movement about the crises in public infrastructure, the decline in health services and the overcrowding in schools.
Finally Bob Carr should remember that, what you can do to
them, (thematic campaigning) they can do to you.
Paul Palmer
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