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Open for Business?
While our focus in recent months has rightly been on the federal political arena, the first skirmish in the battle for rights for NSW workers will occur at the state election, due in just nine months.
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
 Laughing All The Way To MacBank
Perth Apartments Go Like a Bomb
AWAs - Just Say No!
Andrews Puts Contracts on Families
Safety Laws Mine New Depths
Builder Threatens Homes
Beazley to Halt Maxi-Scam
Umpire Stumps Minister
Worker Dumped Over Casual Affair
Councils Trash Workers
Union Journo Escapes Fiji
Canucks Crash Howard�s Party
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.
Psychometric Testing for Bullies
Pleased with Beazley
What is Working Class
National Day of Protest
Tax Cuts
Solidarity
Independent Contractors
Drought Proofing
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Union Journo Escapes Fiji
A court in Fiji has adjourned indefinitely a case against an Australian journalist arrested while monitoring the country�s recent elections.
Nikhil Singh, who works for the journalists union, the Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance, had his passport returned on Friday and is expected to fly back to Australia.
"We are very pleased he hasn't been convicted and we are looking forward to his return to Australia," says national secretary of MEAA Chris Warren.
Police allege Singh, who holds joint Australian and Fijian residency, was the organiser of a protest by Indo-Fijians unable to vote because of registration errors.
Singh appeared in the magistrates' court in the northwestern town of Ba last Monday to face a charge of unlawful assembly and was granted bail, according to media reports from AAP and Fiji television last week.
Singh pleaded not guilty and was ordered to surrender his travel documents.
The alliance said he took leave to do voluntary work for the opposition Fiji Labour Party as well as monitoring the elections on its behalf.
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