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Coming to the Party
The coming NSW ALP State Conference marks an important moment in the changing relationship between the political and industrial wings of the Party.
Interview: Crowded Lives
Labor frontbencher Lindsay Tanner talks us through his new book on the importance of relationships and why politics is letting the people down.
Activists: Life With Brian
Work by men like Brian Fitzpatrick is exposing new Australians to old truths. Jim Marr reports
Industrial: National Focus
A showdown looms in Cancun, Qantas gets bolshie, casual and lazy in its response to aviation challenges, and long festering disputes fester on in Victoria and Tasmania reports Noel Hester in this national wrap.
Unions: If These Walls Could Talk
Trades Hall is preparing for a major facelift but first, Jim Marr reports, it must bid farewell to the colourful bunch who have populated its dusty corridors in recent years.
Economics: Beating the Bastards
Frank Stilwell looks at some of the proposals for building a fairer finance sector.
Media: Three Corners
So its come to this. Four Corners, one of the world's longest running television programs is now under pressure from an ABC Executive that is less cultural visionary than feral abacus.
History: The Brisbane Line
Percy Spender was Menzies' foreign minister, but, Neale Towart asks, was he also prepared to serve as Prime Minister in a Japanese controlled Australia?
Trade: The Dumping Problem
Oxfam-CAA helps set the scene for this month's World Trade Organisation in Cancun.
Review: Frankie's Way
In The Night We Called It A Day Frank Sinatra learns 'sorry' Down Under is a loaded word and refusal to say it when due will lose fans in important places, writes Tara de Boehmler.
 Violence: Rail Workers' Hot Spray
Corporate "Branch Stack" in Court
Entitlements: Ball in Carr’s Court
Asbestos Prospect for Home Buyers
"Stand Over" Claims at Hilton
US: Iraq on the Block
Sheeps Of Shame
Teachers Applaud TAFE Backdown
Council Delays Sweat Shop Action
Monk Aims Muscle at Unis
Cobar Beats Off CBH Assault
Sign Here For Reconciliation
Workers Denied Home Loans
Casual Approach No Holiday
Activists Notebook
The Soapbox
Staking Our Territory
ACTU secretary Greg Combet argued for a fairer Australia in his keynote address to last month's ACTU Congress. The Locker Room
Seasonally Agisted
Spring is a season when a person’s thoughts turn to…horse racing. Phil Doyle reports on the fate of nags and folk heroes. Housing
Beyond the Block
We are wild about the people who live in The Block but not too interested in those who are on the streets outside, writes Michael Rafferty. Politics
The Westie Wing
Workers friend Ian West MLC, reports form the Bearpit about a project to raise awareness about trade unionism amongst young people. Postcard
The Awkward Squad
Paul Smith meets one of the new generation of British union leaders who is taking the ball up to the Blair spin team.
The Clown and the Magician.
Shorter Hours
A Sick War
Taxi!
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Shorter Hours
It should not be forgotten that telstra has already been privatised, at least 49% of the company. And has cost a lot of jobs to profits.
Services that were once free to the general public ie: operator phone numbers now cost to talk to a robot, not that I'm against change or moderninity of employment and conditions. Why don't the sacked workers have a shorter working week of say 10 hours for 40 hours pay.
I once read, when I was 12, by the time I'm 50 this would be about how long workers would have to work. Instead workers are working longer now than ever before. I am 51.
The other thing workers will have to suffer is the governments plans to not allow workers to access their superannuation untill aged 60 to 65 and one extremist view was put to 70 years old.
We will be dying at work. Either from it or because we haven't had time to go home.
Roger Taylor
Victoria
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