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Interview: Out of the Bedroom Industrial: Cloak and Dagger Unions: Lockout! Legal: The Fantasy of Choice Politics: Labor Pains Economics: Economics and the Public Purpose Corporate: House of Horrors History: Clash Of Cultures International: Childs Play Culture: Folk You Mate! Review: Last Holeproof Hero
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Perth Apartments Go Like a Bomb A search of company records reveals financial backers of the Perth builder using labour hire, AWAs and immigrant labour to slash incomes have equally chequered records. [full story] AWAs - Just Say No! The motion, to be endorsed across factional lines, is a response to a push to soften Labor's policy on AWAs being promoted by some in the political wing. [full story] Andrews Puts Contracts on Families Master Builders Association chief, Brian Seidler, confirmed the agenda at a NSW Industrial Relations Society Convention, last week. [full story] Safety Laws Mine New Depths Unions are opposing the changes to the Occupational and Health and Safety Act that would end the regime of strict liability and limit the targets of safety prosecutions. [full story] Builder Threatens Homes Over 100 workers and sub contractors, facing the loss of $2.5m, are picketing a Parramatta building site. [full story] Beazley to Halt Maxi-Scam After attending a protest addressed by former MaxiTRANS employee Mark Walker, Opposition leader Kim Beazley announced a major shift in ALP policy, banning employers who retrench locals from using guest labour. [full story]
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Perth property buyers are falling over themselves to enrich Asian businessmen linked to Burma's military regime, and implicated in the illicit sale of nuclear weapons technology.
NSW unions will begin the push to enshrine the abolition of Australian Workplace Agreements in ALP Policy at the June state party conference.
Employers will use federal government's Independent Contractors Act to launch an assault on surviving workplace rights, including access to family friendly conditions.
Moves to water down NSW workplace safety laws would make it harder to prosecute managers in disasters like the Beaconsfield collapse, a senior lawyer has warned.
Family homes and small business are on the line after a corporate builder cried poor, leaving debts of $2.5 million.
A former Australian soldier, sacked last week only to his see his job replaced by a Chinese worker on a short term visa, has sparked a shift in ALP immigration policy.
