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Interview: The Reich Stuff Economics: Crime and Punishment Environment: Beyond The Wedge International: The End Of The Lucky Country Safety: Tests Fail Tests Politics: Labo(u)r Day Human Rights: Arabian Lights History: Labour's Titan Review: Foxy Fiasco Poetry: Then I Saw The Light
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Helicar Fingers Victims ... Again It announced, this week, that it would reward disgraced former CEO, Peter Macdonald, with a $77,000 a month consultancy. [full story] Rabbits Sick of Clover The union, this week, flagged a ban on work at Redfern Oval unless Sydney Lord Mayor, Clover Moore, improves consultation with the community. [full story] What a Banker Commonwealth Bank CEO David Murray launched a blistering attack on NSW’s OH&S regime, describing proposed gaol sentences for killer bosses as "absolutely abominable". [full story] Pack Up and Go Home Research just published by the Australian Institute shows the average Australian is working longer than counterparts in any other developed country. [full story] Pratt By Name Billionaire Richard Pratt was flying strikebreakers into Visy, Dandenong, and bussing them into, Warwick Farm, as the Federal Court rejected his application to have employee resistance declared illegal. [full story] Horror at the Hacienda Top of their list is Representative Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino III – only son of former Prisident Cory Aquino – whose family has owned the massive Hacienda Luisita sugar complex for generations. [full story]
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James Hardie has marked Asbestos Awareness Week with another two-fingered salute to Australians dying from contact with its products.
The CFMEU is contesting moves that could see the South Sydney Rabbitohs driven out of Redfern.
A banker trousering $4.5 million a year is bleating about workers being compensated for successful health and safety prosecutions.
To bring working hours down to the OECD average Aussies would have knocked off for the year on November 20 – and still not touched their annual leave.
Australia’s second richest man is using helicopters to fly scabs over picket lines in a bid to claw money from sick and injured workers.
Workers in the Phillipines are demanding political scalps after 14 people were killed when the military broke up striking farm and sugar mill workers at Hacienda Luisita, last week.
