E D I T O R I A L

International Relations
Globalisation drags up all sorts of contradictions, none the least the attitude of nation states to international law, as show by events in Australia this week.

F E A T U R E S

Interview: Public Defender
The CPSU's Stephen Jones has confronted the Howard Government's IR agenda at close quarters.

Legal: Craig's Story
An inquest in western NSW is a cautionary tale of the use of AWAs, writes Ian Latham

Unions: Wrong Way, Go Back
The WorkChoice legislation sends Australia down the wrong economic road by smashing the instittutions that have made it strong, argues Greg Combet.

Industrial: WhatChoice?
The Howard Government has shown itself to be the master of illusion, writes Dr Anthony Forsyth

Politics: Queue Jumping
The changes to industrial laws, betray a new vision of Australian society, writes James Gallaway.

History: Iron Heel
Conservative governments using laws to take away basic civil rights. It's nothing new, writes Rowan Cahill

Economics: Waging War
When was the last time you heard an Australian politician talk about incomes policy, asks Matt Thistlethwaite

International: Under Pressure
The push for UN intervention in Burma is intensifying, following a report by Vaclav Havel and Bishop Desmond Tutu into slave labour.

Poetry: Billy Negotiates An AWA
More and more people are meeting Billy, the hero of page 15 of the WorkChoices booklet, including our resident bard, David Peetz

Review: A Pertinent Proposition
Nick Cave's "Australian western" touches on some themes still relevant today, Julianne Taverner writes.

N E W S

Senators Back Rorters' Charter

Families Last in WorkChoices

Howard Loses Poll Position

Printers Stamp on Low Paid

Tough Men Back CFMEU

Kiwis Fly into Starbucks

Vale John Ducker

Iemma Drives Hardie Bargain

Memberships on the increase

Uni Union Shown The Door

In a Flap Over Flu

Job Cuts Threaten CBA's Bottom Line

Blackouts as Bosses Cut Deep

Barnaby's Choice

Wal-Mart Exposed

Activist's What's On!

C O L U M N S

The Soapbox
Men and Women of Australia
What makes a perfect speech? Michael Fullilove has scoured Australian history to find out.

The Locker Room
The Hungry Years
Phil Doyle gets the feeling we’ve been here before

Culture
From Little Things
Paul Kelly's song about the battle for land rights misses one important character, writes Graham Ring

Parliament
The Westie Wing
Ian West takes a look at Public Private Partnerships, and wonders if we should all just drink rum…

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Barnaby's Choice

Queensland Council of Unions General Secretary, Grace Grace, welcomed the Liberals decision to join with the ALP in an overwhelming, 79 to 7, vote against WorkChoices, in the Queensland Parliament last week.

Grace said collective bargaining needed to remain at the centre of any future industrial relations system.

Grace congratulated the Labor State Government and the Nationals on their stance and said it was about time sanity prevailed in the industrial relations debate.

"The extreme measures the Government is proposing will have immediate impacts on those people in low-skilled and low-waged areas who are already finding it hard to keep their heads above water,' says Grace.

"The Government should be sent back to the drawing board on this issue and re-think its radical re-write of Australia's workplace laws.

The full motion, supported by the Queensland Parliament, read: "That this house calls on all Queensland Senators to reject the Commonwealth-proposed industrial relations legislation when it comes before the Senate next week to protect the living standards of Queenslanders and their families."

Meanwhile, over 70,000 people have signed a petition in the last three days, calling on Joyce to vote against WorkChoices legislation.

"We urge him not to pass it, not to amend it and not to tinker around the edges but to throw WorkChoices out. When this many people speak up, you have to listen," says Grace.

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