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Domestic Relations
As the fog of war lifts and attention returns to the domestic phase we find a Federal Opposition imploding as the Prime Minister prepares for the final putsch toward what he sees as his historical mission.
Interview: Picking Up The Peaces
Walk Against the War Coalition convenor Bruce Childs outlines the challenge for the peace movement in the lead up to Palm Sunday.
Unions: The Royal Con
Jim Marr argues the Cole Commission can only be taken seriously by people kept ignorant of the way it actually operated.
National Focus: Around the Grounds
Unions maintain the pressure for peace as the upcoming organising conference takes on added significance, reports Noel Hester.
Economics: The Secret War on Trade
Overseas-based multi-nationals are coming after our film industry, electricity, water, pharmaceutical benefits and even childcare. Or are they? Nobody knows, as Jim Marr reports.
International: United Front
Workers and their unions around the world have possibly never been as united in their commitment to campaign together against the War in Iraq, writes Andrew Casey
History: Confessions of a Badge Collector
Bill Pirie has one of the largest collections of trade union badges in the world. After 20 years the collection now numbers some 6,000 badges.
Politics: Stalin’s Legacy
Fifty years ago last month Josef Stalin died. How could it be that a democratic and socialist revolution produced one of the monsters of the twentieth century, asks Leonie Bronstein.
Review: Such Was Not Ned’s Life
The life of Ned Kelly is what we in the world of journalism term a “ball tearing yarn” so why have writers of the movie adaptation felt so impelled to dress it up with fiction, asks Tara de Boehmler.
Poetry: Osama's Top Recruiter
Through our extensive intelligence networks, we have managed to track down the top recruiter for the global terror network of Osama bin Laden.
Satire: Woolworths CEO Denied Bonus After Company Posts Profit
Woolworths chief executive Roger Corbett was devastated today to report an 18.3% rise in profit under his management over the last year.
Medicare Bombshell – Bosses To Pay
Another Cole Man Bites The Dust
Cheap Indian on Telstra Menu
Legal Tussle Looms Over Email Laws
Recycled Training Stitch-Up Exposed
Contractors Code Fires a Blank
Sweet Talk – Big Business Style
Bosses, Workers Unite on Grey Threat
ANZ Workers Want Cut of Billion Dollar Profit
Time for Death Penalties
Union Exhibition for Wollongong
Nurses in Staffing Stand-off
North Coast Jobs Saved
Super Success in Pilbara
Howard Attacks Education - Again
May Day Festivities
The Soapbox
Factional Free-For-All
Chris Christodoulou looks at the fallout from the selection of the new Carr Ministry and what it means to the factional warlords. The Locker Room
The Best Season Since Last Year
Phil Doyle goes trudging through the mud in search of the heart of the matter beneath the corporate biffo Culture
Books on Bombs
In times like these, reading inevitably turns to America and war. Chris White wades through Pilger, Chomsky, Eco, Moore and Vidal. Postcard
Postcard from Harvard
Labor Council's Michael Gadiel was elected to give the valedictory speech to this year's Harvard Trade Union Program.
Tom's Cunning Plan
Robert's Conquest?
Success Breeds Contempt
Join the Dots
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News
Sweet Talk – Big Business Style
The American sugar industry is threatening to cripple the World Health Organisation (WHO) unless guidelines on health eating, due to be published this week, are scrapped.
WHO insiders have labelled the threat "blackmail" and worse than any pressure ever applied by the tobacco industry, according to Britain's Guardian newspaper.
In a letter to WHO's director general, the Sugar Association says it will challenge the "dubious nature" of the diet and nutrition report, including lobbying against the continuation of $US400 million in American funding on which the international organisation depends for its survival.
Guardian Health editor Sarah Boseley says the sugar lobby is "furious" about guidelines which recommend that sugar make up no more than 10 percent of a healthy diet.
It is also incensed at the new report having been published in draft on the WHO website for consultation purposes. It wants a full economic analysis of the impact of its recommendations on all 192 member countries.
The report, Diet, Nutrition and the Prevention of chronic Diseases, has already drawn fire from the soft drinks industry which rejects its conclusion that sweetened soft drinks contribute to the obesity pandemic.
The WHO strongly rejects sugar lobby criticisms. An officials said a team of 30 independent experts had considered scientific evidence and its conclusions were in line with those of 23 ntaional reports which, on average, set targets of 10 percent for added sugars.
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