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Weasel Words
We are living in an era where words are not always as they seem, and where language is used to shape the world rather than just describe it.
Interview: On Holiday
Historian Richard White looks back on the Aussie vacation - and finds a way of life is under threat.,
Unions: One Day Longer
Nathan Brown travels to the Boeing picket line and find a group of workers with a steely determination to stick together.
Industrial: Never Mind the Bollocks
Jim Marr plays the Howard Government's industrial relations spin job on its merits.
Politics: Spun Out
Canberra�s latest campaign underlines the need for controls over government advertising, according to Graeme Orr and Joo-Cheong Tham
Economics: If the Grog Don't Get You ....
Evan Jones explains how the way we purchase alcolohol reflects the type of economy we live in.
History: Taking a Stand
Neale Towart looks at two books that chronicle how to build community support against social injustice.
International: The Split
Amanda Tattersal outsider's account of an insider's shake-out at the AFL-CIO Convention 2005
Legal: Pushing the Friendship
George Williams argues that the federal government�s constitutional powers are not sufficient to enact a comprehensive national industrial relations scheme
Poetry: Simple Subtractions
The latest blitz of taxpayer-funded advertising has revealed a crisis of arithmetic in government ranks has moved resident bard David Peetz to prose.
Review: Sydney Trashed
Sydney band SC Trash are on a mission to give new life to folk and country music � and the politics of common sense. Nathan Brown had a beer with them
 AWAs Bully the Sisters
Busted: Howard's 14 Percent Furphy
Top End of Town to Write IR Laws
New Laws Make Green Bans History
Hardies Dodges Responsibility
Blokes Wouldn�t Cop Child Care Wages
MPs Duck As Unions Hit the Road
Profits Do Not Mean Security
Dodgy Wagons Rolling In
Telstra: Death By 1,000 Cuts
Andrews Shafts Employee Safety
Indon Rail Workers Roll Paycut Plan
Activist's What's On!
Parliament
The Westie Wing
Our favourite MP, Ian West, goes away for a couple of weeks and look what happens� The Soapbox
The Last Weekend
Unions NSW secretary John Robertson's speech to the Last Weekend - how the Howard government laws will undermine the Ausrtalian way of life. The Locker Room
A Concept Is Born
In which Phil Doyle helps the proponents of the vision thing across the road. International
Workers Blood For Oil
A new book by Abdullah Muhsin and Alan Johnson lifts the lid on the bloody reality of US backed democracy for Iraq's trade unions Postcard
London Post
During his recent stay in London IEU industrial officer John Shapiro was living only a few hundred metres from the site of one of the bomb blasts.
Capital Terror
Think of the Kids
Let�s Talk
Stupid Sale
The Meal
Stand Your Ground
Convenient Flagellation
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Stand Your Ground
John Howard's "power of one" relies on every Liberal and National Party senator agreeing to support the party line and to turn their backs on electorate concerns. I urge your readers not to "give up" the fight. Personalised emails to individual senators who already have a conflict of interest can achieve a great deal as we are witnessing with Barnaby Joyce and the sale of Telstra.
I agree with your editorial about the government's intention to silence workers and students. However, I would add one more very important piece of legislation to your "hit" list - that is the proposed "enhanced" anti-terrorism legislation. This legislation will expand the powers of ASIO and state police to arrest and detain anyone they "suspect" could be "supporting" the "terrorists". Terrorism itself is quite loosely defined and could be applied to collective workers' actions if the government deems that action to be "in conflict" with western values.
Of course the Howard Government wants to disempower workers and students. History has shown how these two groups can effectively blockade fascism. In fact the last government to introduce similar legislation that gave a secret police force powers outside the judicial system was the German Nazi Party under Hitler's leadership.
Workers and students, stand your ground. You are defending our future generations' freedoms.
Wanda Fish
http://www.eftel.com/~cleverfish
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