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Icarus Rising
Right now John Howard is flying. Watch him soar in his Vodafone track-suit, further than the Hawke into unchartered skies.
Interview: Australia@Work
Labor's Penny Wong has the job of getting more people into the workplace and keeping companies honest. In her spare time ....
Unions: State of the Union
Unions NSW secretary John Robertson unveils the annual survey of attitudes of workers to their jobs, thier lives and the union.
Industrial: Fashion Accessories
Jim Marr unpacks the unlikely claim of a suburban house to be considered the New Mecca of the New Right �
Legal: Leg Before Picket
Chris White looks at how the federal industrial changes will impact on the basic right to strike.
Politics: Business Welfare Brats
Neale Towart asks why the only form of legitmate welfare seems to be going to the top end of town.
Health: Cannabis Controversy
Zoe Reynolds looks at how drug and alcohol testing is leading to some addled outcomes.
Economics: Debt, Deficit, Downturn
As the indicators head south, Frank Stilwell wonders whether it is the way we do economics that is to blame.
History: Politics In The Pubs
Phil Doyle reports on the increasingly-popular Struggles, Scabs and Schooners day out.
Review: Three Bob's Worth
Doing their best Margaret and David, Tara de Boehmler and Tim Brunero have different takes on the new Australian flick Three Dollars.
Poetry: Do The Slowly Chokie
Workers Online bard David Peetz teaches how workers to dance to Howard's industrial laws.
 Health System to Subsidise Shonks
Who Likes Bing Lee?
Death Threats Shut Campsie
Thumbs Down for Union Busters
Advocate Pours Salt on Wound
United Front Beats Drug Boss
Kev Backs Double Standard
Victorian Morality Shafts Teacher
Doctors Prescribe More
Multinational Banks Jobs
Working Class Idol
Greens Protect Entitlements
Activist�s What�s On
The Soapbox
Notes From a Laneway
Mental Health Workers Alliance member Toby Raeburn shares a week on the frontline. The Locker Room
War, Plus The Shooting
The Socceroos aren�t their own worst enemy after all, or so says Phil Doyle Culture
Life Imitates Art
The jokes have been around for some time about the economic rationalist's approach to the orchestra, writes Evan Jones. Parliament
The Westie Wing
Ian West takes the secret passage out of Macquarie Street to deliver his take on NSW Parliamentary Committees and other goings on.
Students Bear Brunt
Security Lacking
Bus Lanes On Vic Rd
Dirt Cheap Right On Money
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Death Threats Shut Campsie
Police sealed off streets near the Campsie Railway Station yesterday after the sixth bomb threat on TCFUA offices in the space of three weeks.
All the telephone threats have been received since union reps went public about a clothing industry sweatshop at nearby, Bexley.
A fire engine and six police cars raced to the union headquarters, around 4pm yesterday, after two female office workers fielded death threats in the space of 40 minutes.
The first caller repeated "gonna kill you, gonna kill you", the second added a specific threat to blow up the building.
Frustrated TCFUA secretary, Barry Tubner, confirmed police officers had attended the union's building six times, in response to phone threats, since the Sydney Morning Herald broke news of an unregistered Bexley factory making garments for fashion labels Jaggad, Pani, Cooper Street and Project One.
Tubner said office staff were "seriously concerned" about the intimidation.
"It is having an affect on the health and wellbeing of people who work here," he said, "but I'm just angry. Health and safety regulations mean we have to take these threats seriously, and we do. So far, risk management planning and security upgrades have cost our members tens of thousands of dollars."
The last time the union fingered a Sydney sweatshop one of its vehicles was seriously damaged but Tubner warned against jumping to conclusions.
"You can't help wondering if it's payback but we have no evidence for that," he said. "Whatever the motive, it's criminal behaviour and that's why we've left it in the hands of the police."
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