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Big Target
Well, he�s finally done it. Opposition leader Kim Beazley has wrestled with his internal doubters and staked his future, and one suspects the next election, on workers rights.
Interview: Rock Solid
Bill Shorten gives the inside story on the Australian Workers Union's involvement in the Beaconsfield rescue.
Industrial: Eight Simple Rules for Employing My Teenage Daughter
Phil Oswald bought up his kids to believe in their rights; so when his 16-year old daughter was told to cop a pay cut she was never going to take it quietly.
Politics: The Johnnie Code
WorkChoices is encrypted deep in the PM's political DNA, writes Evan Jones
Energy: Fission Fantasies
Adam Ma�anit looks at the big business push behind the 'clean nuclear' debate that is sweeping the globe.
History: All The Way With Clarrie O'Shea
The WorkChoices Penal Powers are the latest in a long line of penal sanctions against trade unions, writes Neale Towart
International: Closer to Home
If Australia can forgive its debt to Iraq, why not to Indonesia and the Philippines, write Luke Fletcher and Karen Iles
Economics: Taking the Fizz
While the Treasurer has been popping the post-Budget champers, Frank Stilwell gives a more sober assessment.
Unions: Stronger Together
Amanada Tattersall looks at the possibilities of strengthening alliances between unions, environmental and community organisations
Review: Montezuma's Revenge
Tommy Lee Jones directs and stars in a film about racism and retribution, writes James Gallaway.
Poetry: Fair Go Gone
Employers in the land rejoice, for we are girt by greed.
 Esselte Occasioning Workplace Harm
Andrews Backs State Laws
Death Sentence for BHP
Unions Deliver: Freehills
No Job is Safe: AIRC
Klan Backs Jan
Village People Clean Up
Dad Heads for Blacktown
Indonesian Guards Occupy Office
Qantas Passes the Bucks
IR Laws a Loser: Lib
Business Bombs Beazley
OECD Undercuts Howard
Leafy Council Rewards Choppers
High Price Of A Low Wage
Actvist's What's On!
The Soapbox
The Beaconsfield Declaration
As the Prime Minister feted Brant Webb and Todd Russell, their colleagues were outside with a message to the rest of Australia. The Locker Room
Run Like You Stole Something
Phil Doyle observes that there are some tough bastards out there. Parliament
The Westie Wing
That fun-loving friend of the workers, Ian West, reports from the red leather of the Bear Pit. Education
Class Action
Phil Bradley draws the lines between education funding and the current skills crisis.
Lost in the Supermarket
Career Opportunities
A Nuclear Error
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Klan Backs Jan
A prominent Australian columninst known for sinking the stiletto into workers has had her work republished on a Ku Klux Klan website.
Right wing activist ABC director Janet Albrechtsen's musings on the Cronulla riots appear holus bolus on the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan website.
The article, which blames multiculturalism for the riots, appears ahead of news items on a "Klanswoman" winning 1000 votes in a Canadian election and Jews being behind the Russian Revolution.
The website's homepage warns surfers to "practice racial integrity" and "don't race mix".
Albrechtsen, a rabid supporter of Prime Minister John Howard, has caused uproar in the past with columns blaming Islamic values for gang rape.
Federal Communications Minister Helen Coonan appointed her to the ABC board last year.
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