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Contract With Australia
If WorkChoices is the legislative expression of the Howard Government�s ideological hatred of unions, the Independent Contractors Act is the product of an altogether more dangerous form of ideological zealotry.
Interview: Out of the Bedroom
Reverend Jim Wallis is leading a crusade to take the moral debate into the public arena.
Industrial: Cloak and Dagger
The Howard Government has begun a series of workshops to sell its WorkChoice vsision. Sean Ambrose sneaked through the doors for Workers Online.
Unions: Lockout!
Jim Comerford�s eyewitness account of the 15-month Lockout of 10,000 New South Wales miners in1929-1930 records the inside story of Australia�s most bloody and bitter industrial conflict
Legal: The Fantasy of Choice
Professor Ron McCallum argues the WorkChoices laws are built on a fundamental fiction.
Politics: Labor Pains
Labor has dealt itself out of the crucial workplace relations debate by failing to articulate a credible policy alternative to Howard�s new WorkChoices legislation, argues Mark Heearn and Grant Michelson
Economics: Economics and the Public Purpose
Evan Jones pays tribute to John Kenneth Galbraith, a big man who never stopped arguing that economics should serve the public good, not create public squalor.
Corporate: House of Horrors
Anthony Keenan takes a tour of Sydney�s notorious, Asbestos House, courtesy of Gideon Haig.
History: Clash Of Cultures
Neale Towart with a new take on Mayday through the words of a punk icon
International: Childs Play
An ILO report into Child Labour shows some progress is being made to curb this gobal scurge .
Culture: Folk You Mate!
Phil Doyle dodges Morris Dancers to find signs of Working Life at the National Folk Festival in Canberra over the Easter Weekend.
Review: Last Holeproof Hero
Finally, a superhero who has worked out how to wear his underpants. Nathan Brown ogles V for Vendetta
 Andrews Axes Safety
Plant Fission for Cost Savings
Spotless Bosses Blame Howard
Aussie Bushman Pronounced Dead
Who's Smirking Now?
Yellow Bosses See Red
Amber Light on Howard's Way
Secret Police Spook Mum
Wally Pollies Set for Cracker
Qantas to Parachute In Pilots
Unmask the Puppeteers, Union Demands
Cleaners Mop Up
Cane Toads Hop Into Johnny
King of Onkaparinga Cries Poor
Activist's What's On!
The Soapbox
Albo's Meltdown
Labor's environment spokesman Antony Albanese argues that Chrernobyl is one reason why the ALP should stand firm on nuclear. The Locker Room
A Sort Of Homecoming
Phil Doyle plays to the whistle. Parliament
The Westie Wing
Our favourite MP, Ian West reports from Macquarie Street on some strange collective acction.
Restaurant a Rip Off
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Cane Toads Hop Into Johnny
Soaring union memberships and record rallies marked the May Day public holiday in Queensland.
Almost 40,000 Queenslanders joined unions last year, a four per cent jump in membership across the sunshine state.
"We have had people walking in off the street and ringing up who a month ago never would have come near a union," Electrical Trades Union state secretary Dick Williams told media.
Over 35 000 workers and their families gave the thumbs down to the federal government's new workplace laws at the annual Mayday march in Brisbane, up on the average of 10,000 in recent years.
For the first time in almost 20 years, the 2006 celebrations were held at the RNA Showgrounds to accommodate the increase in numbers.
Union tents, stalls, kids rides and food stalls were all set up in the main arena making for a lively, carnival-type atmosphere after a winding march through the city and Fortitude Valley.
In regional Rockhampton and Mackay crowds of over 5000 turned out, where normally rallies were measured in hundreds, while a procession was held in Toowoomba for the first time in many years.
Queensland Unions state secretary Grace Grace says the 4 per cent increase in union membership is measured to August 2005.
"This continued membership growth is proof of the need for unions and it is understandable that people are seeking the protection of unions in this new, hostile working environment."
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