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Interview: Fortress NSW Unions: Fashions Afield Industrial: Pay Dirt Politics: Infrastructure Blues History: Big Day Out International: Making History Economics: The Fear Factor Review: The Robots Revolt Poetry: The Corporation's Power
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BHP Gets Decision to Die For The AMWU and Asbestos Victims Association of South Australia are demanding urgent state government action in the wake of BHP Billiton�s challenge to a former employee�s right to gain compensation through the NSW Dust Diseases Tribunal. [full story] Howard Turns to Water In a shock announcement, this week, the Commonwealth announced states that haven�t signed off on its construction industry code would be denied their shares of the national $2 billion water fund. [full story] PM Noses into Pinocchio Territory US aerospace giant, Boeing, this week used Howard�s laws to stand down Williamstown maintenance engineers pressing for a collective, union-negotiated contract. [full story] Protest is Child�s Play The funsters will perform alongside big name entertainers and comedians at Sydney Olympic Park as working people and their families enjoy their "Last Weekend�. [full story] A Baloney Deal Under Fire Husband and wife team, Leslie and Peter Wahlqvist, had 30 Aussie seafarers axed from the Destiny Queen, late last year, and replaced them with Ukranians and Chinese who aren�t allowed to set foot on Australian soil. [full story] Decapitation Witness Dudded Construction Union secretary, Andrew Ferguson, says injured workers have fewer rights than criminals beaten in gaol. [full story]
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Australia�s biggest company is trying to deny South Australian asbestos sufferers access to the Dust Diseases Tribunal.
The federal government is prepared to squeeze states and individual farmers dry to sign them up for its bash a building worker campaign.
Forty five former RAAF engineers have caught the Prime Minister out in a bare-faced lie.
Kids� icons the Hooley Dooleys will be the unlikely strike weapon in the fight for working rights, headlining a major protest the Sunday before the Howard Government takes control of the Senate.
Abalone "slave ship" operators are blocking efforts to check the welfare of Ukranian and Chinese workers afloat off Port Lincoln. 
A construction worker who saw his supervisor decapitated, and suffered serious back injuries, is unable to claim damages under NSW Workers Comp rules.
