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Interview: On Holiday Unions: One Day Longer Industrial: Never Mind the Bollocks Politics: Spun Out Economics: If the Grog Don't Get You .... History: Taking a Stand International: The Split Legal: Pushing the Friendship Poetry: Simple Subtractions Review: Sydney Trashed
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Busted: Howard's 14 Percent Fudge While the highest CEOs� wages have blown out by 229 per cent since 1998, the average increase for non-managerial adult income between 1998 and 2004 was just 3.6 per cent, according to an analysis of ABS data carried out by ACIRRT for Unions NSW. [full story] Emperor Stripped on Wages Macfarlane came clean at the end of a 2GB interview with Alan Jones, last week, confirming claims made by critics of his government's radical workplace agenda. [full story] Witch Hunt Targets Priest Australian Financial Review journalist Marcus Priest has been questioned by the Australian Federal Police over the source of a briefing from within the department of Workplace Relations, critical of the Minister's use of the building and construction code. [full story] No Malice in Pregnancy Termination, Court A Perth receptionist claimed to have her boss on tape telling her she was gone because of her pregnancy but Supreme Court Justice, Rene le Miere, found that broadcasting her tape would not have been in the public interest. [full story] Building Boss Risks Lives Sydney-based construction firm Timwin had scaffolders working unprotected amongst loose asbestos at Latec House, the site of a new housing development. [full story] Cleric Preaches Murder The founder of America's Christian Coalition used his television program, last week, to urge the Bush Administration to eliminate Chavez. [full story]
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It's official: The Prime Minister's 14 per cent real wage increase boast is a mirage - built on gigantic rises for CEOs and high income earners like himself.
Industry Minister Ian Macfarlane has blown John Howard's workplace cover, revealing plans to slash real wages by around 50 percent.
The Howard Government's use of police and the criminal law to plug embarrassing leaks has moved into the industrial relations arena.
A WA court has brushed public interest arguments to block the broadcast of a boss axing a pregnant woman.
Five workers may have been handed death sentences by a construction company that ignored a prohibition notice on a contaminated Newcastle worksite.
Republican preacher Pat Robertson is calling for the murder of democratically-elected Venezuelan president, Hugo Chavez.
