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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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Bosses, Workers Unite on Grey Threat
Australia�s social infrastructure � health, welfare and pension arrangements � will buckle if older people can�t be kept longer in the workforce, unions and bosses agree.
The ACTU and Business Council of Australia have agreed to work together to try and ensure better "mature age" employment opportunities in the wake of a joint report - Age Can Work: The Case for Older Australians Staying in the Workforce - which points to massive upheaval if Australia doesn't plan for a rapidly ageing population.
The peak bodies have agreed to promote workplace changes to combat age discrimination and support older workers.
ACTU president Sharan Burrown and Business Council chief executive Katie Lahey pointed out that over the past 10 years 1.4 million new entrants had joined the workforce while that figure would fall to only 120,000 for the decade beginning 2020.
"As a result, while there are currently six working Australians supporting each retired person, by 2025 the ration will be one to three," they said.
"Estimates put the cost of Australia's ageing workforce at $27 billion in lost economic growth and spending each decade. Health, welfare and pension systems will be ill-equiped to support a growing class of retired Australians," they warned.
Burrow and Lahey called for "signficant cultural change" to bread down stereotype about older workers and retirement and urged support for those who want to stay at work longer, whether to maintain or incomes or for fultillment.
The joint report, authored by University of NSW Emeritus Professor Sol Encel, found that older workers were discrimated against despite anti-discrimination laws in all states and territories.
"For too many mature workers retiring early is not always voluntary," Encel said. " Older workers, particularly men, have been vulnerable to downsizing and restructuring."
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