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Planet Common Cents
The current debate around the federal government�s move to ban compulsory university service fees exposes more than a pathological hatred of all things �union�.
Interview: Dot.Com
Evan Thornley was a labour activist. Then he rode the tech wave. Now he's home with new ideas on how Labor can win the economic debate.
Workplace: Dirt Cheap
In her new book, Elizabeth Wynhausen learns how hard it is to live on the minimum wage.
Industrial: Daddy Doesn�t Live With Us Anymore
Andreia Viegas� tells the story of the loss her young family has felt since her husband was killed at work, and the need for justice for families who fall victim to industrial manslaughter.
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Big Business's agenda for Australia has gone from loopy to mainstream at the speed of light, writes Neale Towart
International: From the Wreckage
Working people across Iraq are struggling to build their own independent unions � and are successfully organising industrial action on the vital oil fields as well as in hotels, transport outlets and factories, Writes Andrew Casey
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With much attention given belatedly to the shortage of infrastructure, little attention has been given to the structure of infrastructure, writes Evan Jones
History: Meat and Three Veg
A new book recounts the impact of the Depression on women workers, writes Neale Towart,
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Poetry: To Know Somebody
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School Raids Condemned
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School Raids Condemned
Immigration Minister Amanda Vanstone lied about the "inhumane" removal of children from schools by departmental agents last week, says Angelo Gavrieltos from the Teachers Federation.
The Minister claimed two children, aged six and eleven, had to be arrested during classes as their mother's detention meant they had no home to return to.
Gavrieltos says the children's mother had been detained on arrival in Australia having been deported several months earlier.
Children said the lived with family friends and an aunt. Immigration officials refused to allow the school principal to contact these carers.
Gavrieltos says Immigration agents arrived unannounced at Stanmore Public school on the March 8 and behaved in an "intimidatory" manner.
Gavrieltos has condemned the fact there was no departmental warning of the action and the action broke a long held understanding children would not be removed during school hours.
The federation says in the last fortnight up to seven children were whisked from school to the Villawood Detention centre.
Gavrieltos says children should not be locked in detention.
"In the morning they were in a suburban school, now they are behind razor wire," he says.
"Last year the Howard Government said schools were lacking in morality," says Gavrieltos "But this action is a direct result of Howard government policies that are underpinned by indecency and inhumanity."
"The government must be held accountable for the traumatisation of children.
"The NSW Teachers Federation calls on the federal government to end the cruelty and respect the basic human rights of children."
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