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Praying Mantras
The election of a new Pontiff is a moment of cultural significance, a point where the world�s moral compass comes under scrutiny, and not just for the world�s billion-odd Catholics.
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.
 Pope Backs Rights At Work
Trade Deal Built On Corpses
AWAs Go � So Do Long Hours
Sunday Too Far Away
True Lies at RailCorp
Mushrooms Mums Fed Bull
Sewage In The Streets
Taskforce Stands Over Vet
Engineers in Driving Seat
Backyard Funerals Targeted
Work Deaths Get Permanent Reflection
Yanks Brawl With Mall
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.
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Backyard Funerals Targeted
"Backyard" undertakers who keep bodies in kitchen fridges and provide no washing facilities for workers handling corpses should be targeted in an upcoming industry review, according to the Funeral Union of Australia.
Union secretary, Aiden Nye, will tell an NSW Parliament inquiry the industry lacks a proper code of practice or monitoring body to ensure dignity for families and workers.
Nye says lax licensing and procedural regulations have led to horror stories of bodies being operated on, washed, and dressed in residential backyards and babies being kept in domestic fridges. Some undertakers do not even refrigerate cadavars.
Nye is calling for workers to be given proper training, protective clothing, washing facilities and crucial information about cause of death - especially where infectious disease is involved.
He says in the absence of a proper policing body for the industry meant the union had had to step into the breech and prosecute shonky operators.
"We need much better monitoring and approval of premises."
Submissions to the inquiry close on May 17.
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