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US Forces
The concerted and increasingly personal campaign by the Howard Government to portray Mark Latham as anti-American is built on some dodgy premises.
Interview: The New Democrat
Canadian activist Judy Rebick explains how she's using lessons from Brazil to rebuild the labour movement.
Bad Boss: The Ugly Australian
Prime Minister John Howard is in California spruiking the "merits" of this month�s Bad Boss nomination �
Unions: Free Spirits and Slaves
International capital demands guest labour � legal or illegal � as a way of beating down wages and conditions and, as Jim Marr discovers, the Australian Government seems happy to oblige.
Industrial: National Focus
Noel Hester reports on another workplace death (we-will-not-RIP NOHSC), heartburn for the Canberra consensus and all the action from around the states in our national wrap.
History: A Class Act
The problem of forgetting the primacy of class in favour of other ideas of community is highlighted in a new book, writes Neale Towart
International: Across the Ditch
NZ Nurses Union leader, Laila Harr�, is in Sydney this week, comparing notes with the Australian Nurses Federation and seeking transTasman support for New Zealand�s highest profile industrial campaign.
Economics: Home Truths
Sydney University's Frank Stilwell argues that tax policy is driving the housing boom.
Review: No Time Like Tomorrow
The Day After Tomorrow is one part Grim Reaper of the environmental movement and two parts fictitious fable dramatically window dressed with extreme special effects, writes Tara de Boehmler.
Poetry: Silent Note
Resident Bard David Peetz uncovers the current public service motto � "Don't tell the Minister!".
 Hadgkiss Sinks Boot into Safety
Put a Job in Your Trolley
Della Puts Cleaners Through Schools
Freespirit Severs "Slavery" Link
Luna Fringe Targets Fun
Labour Warriors Fall
Canberra Six in Dock
Lobbyists Look for ALP Spine
Tree Plan Faces Axe
Sydney Water to Drip Feed Public
Safety Nosedives At JetStar
Irritable Desks on March
Howard Backs Union Model
Activists What�s On!
The Soapbox
The Pursuit of Happiness Part I
The Australia Institute's Clive Hamilton questions the assumptions underlying a society that defines happiness in dollar terms. The Soapbox
The Pursuit of Happiness Part II
Clive Hamilton concludes his analysis, looking at how more and more Australians are pulling back from a marketplace that is no longer providing the goods. The Locker Room
Sack �Em All!
Phil Doyle puts his job on the line, but doesn�t everyone these days? Politics
The Westie Wing
The NSW Government has an agenda on the table but the test is finding innovative ways to finance it, writes Ian West
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Letters to the Editor
Lest We Forget
Dear Editor,
Remember the Howard Years?
Where is the National Trust? Where is an enterprising tourist company?
We have memorials to the Howard Years that should be preserved. Do not let them pull down the detention camps. It is part of our history. Art lovers want to look at the marvellous murals painted on the walls of Port Hedland by a man now locked in Baxter. Historians will want to read the names written in blood in the suicide watch room. When there is a Royal Commission into the terrible abuses, I want them to be able to see where it all happened. International tourists will want to wander the football field in Nauru where over a thousand people were kept, hundreds are still there. I want to see where the kids played, where the babies learned to walk, where the young men cried. For many years we Australians thought we were not capable of such things. Now we need to walk around our 'sites' in order to see ourselves truthfully, and remember the Howard Years. Lest We Forget.
Elaine Smith
West Haven
NSW
Australia, 2443
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