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Shock and Awe
And so it has begun, the cartoon caricatures are locked in; the cowboy and the tyrant his father created, locked in an endgame that will trash more than the infrastructure of Iraq.
Poetry: If I Were a Rich Man
Through a distortion in the time-space continuum, we have found a recording showing how people a few years into the future will deal with health care.
Interview: League of Nations
ICFTU general secretary Guy Ryder on the war, core labour standards and why Australia is an international pariah.
Industrial: 20/20 Hindsight
A retrospective analysis of the Accord is needed to help develop future strategies. Is it worth trying again? And if so, what would need to be different?
Organising: On The Buses
A new rank and file leadership team is standing up for the harried bus driver in the run-up to the NSW State Election
Unions: National Focus
A gaze around the country reveals some inspiring and innovative organising initiatives, a fruitful connection with young workers in South Australia and some typically robust industrial campaigns reports Noel Hester.
History: The Banner Room
On the eve of it�s refurbishment, Jim Marr ventures into one of Trades Hall�s best kept secrets; the room that houses relics of labour�s halcyon days.
International: The Slaughter Continues
Chilling new statistics from Colombia's main trade union confederation CUT: nine trade unionists assassinated in the first two months of this year.
Legal: A Legal Case For War?
Aaron Magner looks at the legal implications of the crusade of the Coalition of the Willing
Culture: Singing For The People
When there�s a struggle for social justice, when a war is brewing or rights are being eroded, the first ones to pen, paper and protest are often the folkwriters.
Review: The Hours
On the eve of International Women�s Day Tara de Boehmler follows the tale of three women who would rather choose death than a life devoid of personal choice.
Poetry: I Wanna Bomb Saddam
Scarier than Star Wars, the latest weapon to be deployed in the battle for Iraq is the Singing Dubya.
Satire: Diuretic Makes Warne's Excuses Look Thin
Australian cricketer Shane Warne today admitted that he was still feeling the after effects of the diuretic he tested positive to.
 Peace Marchers Warn Off Provocateurs
Monk Ignores Job Losses
Trade Warriors Turn to Water
Gap, Target Pay Sweatshop Dues
Firies Douse Insurance Blaze
Kennett Delivers $2m Gas Bill
Vials Sparks Security Scare
Buggers Hit Six
Rail Towns Win Jobs Reprieve
Telstra Dotty Over Witching Hour
Crow Eaters Choke on Waste
CSL Boss in Political Pickle
Lawyers Push Super Class Action
Fair Clothing Activists Take Stock
Activists Notebook
The Soapbox
Workers Friend
Shock jock Alan Jones snubbed his Liberal mates to bucket the Cole Royal Commission and launch Jim Marr's book The Locker Room
Boer Bore Boring
In the face of oppression Phil Doyle falls asleep in front of the TV Guest Report
Dead Labor
The Hawke and Keating legacy is John Howard, Leonie Bronstein argues. Seduction
Hands Off, Tony
John Della Bosca argues the NSW Industrial Relations System gives his State a competitive advantage.
Bosswatch
Groundhog Day
Another year, another round of corporate excess. Bosswatch returns from its summer slumber to find the same old dogs up to the same tricks.
I Miss Unions
Viva Le Imperialists!
The First Casualty
Righteous indignation
Dead Right
Calling All Libs
If George W Bush was an Australian Citizen...
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CSL Boss in Political Pickle
Dodgey business dealings threaten the political career of the Canadian tycoon whose company bought out Australia�s national shipping line.
CSL has been under constant fire from Australian maritime unions for sailing former national line vessels under flags of convenience at the loss of hundreds of Australian jobs. Now the boss, Paul Martin, is having his Prime Ministership ambitions undermined by Canadian investigative journalists.
Under-pressure, Martin last week announced he would give up control of his multi-million dollar shipping empire. He had been under sustained pressure since the Ottawa Citizen exposed he had had private briefings about company business affairs while serving as Minister of Finance.
But his plan for distancing himself from CSL, one of the world's major shipping lines, has failed to ease the disquiet. Martin wants to dispose of all his voting shares by passing them on to his three sons.
Since Martin announced his intention to push for the Prime Ministership his business affairs have attracted intense media scrutiny. Conflict of interest allegations were followed by stories revealing his ships had dumped waste water in fishing grounds.
Earlier this month, the Ottawa Citizen announced CSL was under investigation for possible environmental offences after one of its bulk carriers dumped harmful sediment in a bay near prime salmon stocks. Last November the CSL Atlas was fined $125,000 for unlawfully discharing waste off the coast of Nova Scotia.
The fisheries investigation has raised possible environmental conflicts between Martin's business interests and high political office.
Now the Canadian press is running stories that link CSL subsidiaries with Indonesia's discredited Suharto family.
CSL still operates two former ANL vessels, the Pacific and Stadacona, on the Australian coast. Both have been flagged out to the Bahamas, effectively defeating Australian taxation and labour requirements.
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