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Good Versus Evil
So it's come to this - working women's groups that alert clients to union activities will be denied federal government funding and, effectively, forced to close.
Interview: A Life And Death Matter
Macquarie Street and Canberra are squaring off over safety in the workplace, NSW Minister for Industrial relations, John Della Bosca, explains what's at stake.
Unions: Fighting Back
When John Howard's building industry enforcer started threatening people's homes, one couple hit the road. Jim Marr met them in Sydney.
Industrial: What Cowra Means
The ruling on the Cowra abattoir case highlights the implications of the new IR rules, according to John Howe and Jill Murray
Environment: Scrambling for Energy Security
Howard Government hypocrisy is showcased in its climate change manoeuvring, Stuart Rosewarne writes:
Politics: Page Turner
A new book leaves no doubt about whether the faction came before the ego, Nathan Brown writes.
Economics: The State of Labour
The capacity of the state to shape the political economy and thus improve the social lives of the people must be reasserted, argues Geoff Dow.
International: Workers Blood For Oil
A new book by Abdullah Muhsin and Alan Johnson lifts the lid on the bloody reality of US backed democracy for Iraq's trade unions
History: Liberty in Spain
Worker Self-Management is good management. The proof in Spain was in Catalania, Andalusia and continues in the Basque Country, as Neale Towart explains.
Review: Go Roys, Make A Noise
Phil Doyle thought he'd find nostalgia, but instead Vulgar Press' new book, Maroon & Blue is a penetrating insight into the suburban mind under stress.
 Sprung: Light on Day
Mal Content to Challenge King
More Standover Tactics in WA
Qantas Holidays Delayed 150 Years
Hockey Wields Stick
We Have Ways of Cutting Your Pay
Jihad Johnny Targets Women
Council Workers Talk The Walk
Trujillo Slices Millions Off Bottom Line
Vehicle Jobs on Skids
Teachers Suspend Selves
Bishop Damns WorkChoices
Workers Rights On The Road
ACTU Backs Business, Germans
Activist's What's On!
The Locker Room
Ruled Out
Phil Doyle plays by the rules Fiction
Tommy's Apprentice
Chapter One - Tommy and "The Boy" Politics
Westie Wing
Ian West wonders what might happen if the NSW Coalition actually did win power next March at the State elections.
Pimps and Prostitutes
The Cruellest Cut
Poll On
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ACTU Backs Business, Germans
The ACTU is calling on the Federal Government to do more to help small to medium sized Australian businesses export their wares.
In submissions to Federal Government inquiries, the peak union body says a service, modeled on Germany's Frauenhofer institute, needs to be set up to help Aussie business beef up capacity for exports.
ACTU secretary Greg Combet said the Federal Government needed to work closer with industry and unions to ensure a long-term strategy to secure Australia's economic future against low-wage competition from India and China.
"We all want jobs, we all want exports," Combet said.
"It would be very good if we could get a political consensus, but if we can't, let's have an informed debate around competing proposals, so policies will emerge that have been thought through."
Combet said that Australia had too long been driven by debt-funded household spending and needed investment in skills and industry
capability.
The advisory service would cover innovation, research and development, technology and product development geared towards exports.
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