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Truth In Advertising
In the past seven days we have witnessed the unprecedented spectacle of a Howard Minister attempting to campaign on �Truth�. That it has come back to bite him on the bum is the clearest proof yet of some eternal notion of justice.
Interview: The Baby Drought
Social ethicist Leslie Cannold has delved into why women - and men - are having fewer children. And it all comes back to the workplace.
Industrial: Lies, AWAs and Statistics
David Peetz uncovers the truth behind the latest statistics on earnings under Australian Workplace Agreements.
Workplace: The Invisible Parents
Current government policies about work and family do not reflect the realities of either family life or the modern workplace. writes Don Edgar.
History: Bruce�s Big Blunder
The Big Fella, Jack Lang, gives an eyewitness account of the last time Conservatives tried to dismantle Australia�s industrial relations system.
Politics: All God's Children
The battle for morality is not confined to Australian polittics. Michael Walzer writes on the American perspective
Economics: Spun Out
The business groups are feeling cocky. The feds have announced their IR changes, business says they don't go far enough. What a surprise, writes Neale Towart
International: Shakey Trials
Lyndy McIntyre argues the New Zealnd IR experiment provides warnings - and hope - for the Australian union movement.
Legal: Civil Distrubance
Tom Roberts argues that there is more at stake than an attack on building workers in the looming legsilation.
Review: Crash Course In Racism
Paul Haggis flick Crash suggests that when cars collide the extent of people's prejudices are revealed sans the usual veil of political correctness, writes Tara de Boehmler.
Poetry: You're Fired
New laws will leave bosses holding the whip and workers with a Raw Hide, writes resident bard David Peetz
 Choice Bro, Andrews Unmasked
Rev Kev�s Big Stick
Grass Roots Flourish
Academics Give an F
Feds Invoke Feared Beard
Mum Gives Johnny the Slip
Hadgkiss in Family Friendly Assault
Slick Operator Goes Down
Tassie in Grip of Chip Strip
Elderly Boss Gets Cranky
Army Used To Privatise Phones
Dangerous Vic bosses face slammer
Activists Whats On!
The Locker Room
Ashes to Dust
In which Phil Doyle travels to distant lands in search of a meat pie, and prepares for the joys of sleep deprivation Parliament
The Westie Wing
Ian West lists the Top Ten reasons why workers in NSW can gain some solace from having the Labor Party sitting on the Treasury benches� The Soapbox
Dear John
In response to this year�s Federal Budget, Bishop Kevin Manning wrote an open letter to the Prime Minister, Mr John Howard
Good outlook at Hertz
Foxtel�s folly
Stuck for words
More care, less scare
Do or die time
China throws in Mao�s towel
Don�t strike out strikes
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News
Slick Operator Goes Down
A flag of convenience vessel managed by "ratbags" has been pinged for dumping oil on the Great Barrier Reef on Christmas Day.
The owners of the container ship Pacific Quest were fined $180,000 in the Brisbane District Court after satellite imagery and oil samples linked the unwelcome Chrissie present to their vessel.
Mattrim Marine Inc of Panama pleaded guilty to the charge of pumping oily waste into Reef waters.
"Yet again it is a flag of convenience vessel that is to blame for environmental vandalism," said International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF) Australia Co-ordinator Dean Summers. "This is the second to date, with another Panamanian flagged vessel, Pax Phoenix,fined $85,000 last October for yet another act of deliberate pollution on the Reef in 2001.
Summers stressed that the UK based company managing the Pacific Quest was infamous for its treatment of crews.
" Zodiac Marine are notorious rat bags in the industry," says Sunmmers. "We urge AMSA to see if the ship could be linked to other unexplained oil slicks in her Australian trading pattern of Fremantle, Adelaide and Melbourne."
Each year the ITF and the Maritime Union of Australia have been demonstrating the dangers of Ships of Shame on our coast at surfing festivals with maritime workers covering themselves in an oily slick to demonstrate the impact a major spill would have on Australian beaches.
The successful prosecution is the result of a joint investigation into the spill by the Australian Maritime Safety Authority, Federal Police and the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority.
The Quest is a 23-year-old container ship coming to the end of her life and has since been taken off the Australian run after Australian Maritime Safety Authority expose.
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