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History: Nest of Traitors Interview: A Nation of Hope Unions: National Focus Safety: The Shocking Truth Tribute: A Comrade Departed History: Working Bees Education: The Big Picture International: Static Labour Economics: Budget And Fudge It Technology: Google and Campaigning Review: Secretary With A Difference Poetry: The Minimale Satire: Howard Calls for Senate to be Replaced by Clap-O-Meter
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Task Force Sleeps Through Killing �If we ask someone to join the union they�re all over us for months,� CFMEU organiser, Martin Wyer, said, �but a man gets killed, the boss has no paperwork, basic safety precautions aren�t followed and they aren�t interested. [full story] Go To Gaol � Do Not Collect $500,000 The Department of Resources has washed its hands of the debt, arguing it paid out Waller�s latest progress payment, $519,000, on the strength of company stat decs that said its payments were up to date. [full story] Green Pollie in Picket Blue After months of fruitless negotiations, it took one day of picketing and associated media attention for workers at Southwood Press to extract a decent deal from new Upper House MP Sylvia Hale. [full story] D-Day for Media Diversity Despite indications to MEAA lobbyists this week that they would block passage of the Media Ownership Bill, the key independent and One Nation representative will kill the laws that have kept Murdoch out of television and Packer�s hands off the Fairfax Press. [full story] Putting Steel into Government�s Spine Leightons, the construction giant contracted to build Sydney�s multi-billion dollar western oribital motorway, has been rumbled using cheap reinforcing by vigilant AMWU delegates on the Hilton Hotel redevelopment. [full story] Fortnight in Killing Fields Anyone? Fifteen places are available on a two-week ACTU-endorsed trip aimed at pressuring the Colombian Government to halt killings and human rights abuses. The ACTU is backing the exercise at the request of Colombian counterpart, CUT. [full story]
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The controversial Building Industry Task Force hasn�t been near a North Bondi site where an accident, this week, left one worker dead and another locked up in Villawood.
Goulburn Gaol is being recommended as a suitable home for construction company bosses who abandoned construction on the site, leaving contractors owed $1.5 million.
Workers at a printing press owned by a Greens member of the NSW Parliament have shamed her into delivering entitlements in line with state law.
Australia's media diversity is under dire threat after independent senators cut a deal with the Howard Government to dump laws preventing media moguls Rupert Murdoch and Kerry Packer dominating the industry.
Cheap reinforcing steel from Malaysia has reignited calls for the NSW Government to establish a local content policy that protects Australian jobs.
Australian workers are being urged to visit the most dangerous country on earth for trade unionists � Colombia.
