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Interview: Public Defender Legal: Craig's Story Unions: Wrong Way, Go Back Industrial: WhatChoice? Politics: Queue Jumping History: Iron Heel Economics: Waging War International: Under Pressure Poetry: Billy Negotiates An AWA Review: A Pertinent Proposition
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Aussies Shrug Off Threats They defied a sustained campaign of intimidation, by John Howard and his big-business backers, to take part in the biggest act of civil disobedience Australia has witnessed. [full story] PM Executes Back Flip The Prime Minister lobbed up on television to play statesman in a performance Unions NSW secretary, John Robertson, has labelled "dishonest" but "typical�. [full story] National Rally Boosts Local Action Similar marches were conducted across the state following the SkyChannel hook up, with regional centres such as Lismore and Wollongong recording their largest ever turnouts for an industrial rally. [full story] Restaurateurs Do a Runner The Restaurant and Catering Australia submission into the reforms says real wages, in the sector, must be held down. [full story] St Hilliers No Angels Armando Quezada, a steel fixer from Fairfield, was taken to Mona Vale Hospital after falling more than three metres onto concrete at a St Hilliers site in Mona Vale. [full story] Penalties Frozen on Sundaes Year 9 student Isobella Buda told by a manager at Manly's Gelatissimo in August that she had �decided� she was not working there any more by not signing an AWA. [full story]
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Half a million people stared down threatened fines to challenge federal government's radical workplace agenda, last week.
John Howard fooled nobody with his support for �democracy� and the �right to protest� in the aftermath of last week's huge anti-government mobilisation.
Over 2,000 people marched through Blacktown as workers across NSW turned up the IR heat on Liberal politicians.
Restaurants and caterers will use Workchoices to slash the living standards of Australia's lowest paid, a Senate Inquiry has heard.
A 58-year-old building worker is recovering from a fall at a Sydney construction site a week after a foreman scrawled �bullshit� over safety warnings.
A 15-year-old ice cream parlour worker had her shifts taken away for refusing to sign an AWA that lowered her wage and took away penalty rates.
