E D I T O R I A L

A Values Call
Opposition leader Kim Beazley has copped a bit of flak in the past week for his Aussie Values Pledge, but we reckon he got it at least half right.

F E A T U R E S

Interview: Australia�s Most Wanted
The ACCC is the latest state agency to turn its guns on the construction union. National official, Dave Noonan, discusses the implications.

Industrial: The Fox and the Contractor
With new laws looming for �independent contractors�, Foxtel subbies have had the carpet pulled from under their feet, writes Nathan Brown.

Unions: Industrial Wasteland
A group of inner-Sydney veterans appear to be working to strip their families of retirement incomes. Jim Marr records their desperation.

International: Two Bob's Worth
German and British workers are participating in business decisions while WorkChoices locks Australians out of the conversation, writes Anthony Forsyth.

Economics: National Interest
John Howard claimed that interest rates would always be lower under a Coalition government than under Labor, Neale Towart crunchess the numbers.

Environment: The Real Dinosaur
Economic ignorance remains at the top and the critics are oblivious says Sol Power

History: Only In Spain?
The experiences of self management during the Civil War have been the one positive factor to come from that tragic event, and the Mondragon Cooperative Corporation thrives today.

Review: Clerk Off
Nathan Brown draws solace from some fellow social misfits.

N E W S

From Comrades to CUBs

Workers Demand Right to Know

Flying Kangaroo Eyes Passage to India

It�s A Secret: Ballot Boosts ABC Campaign

Brake WorkChoices, NSW Urged

City or the Bush? It�s Telstra�s Call

Compo Rights a Burning Issue

2500 Get Coles Shoulder

Hardie Payrise Stiffs Victims

WorkChoices Reverse Somersault with Pike

Qantas Workers Ground AWAs

Latest Import: Childcare Workers

Let Tem Eat Cake!

Mugabe Thugs Mug Unionists

C O L U M N S

Legends
Westie Wing
MLC Ian West ventures beyond Macquarie St and into the desert of the eco rats.

The Soapbox
Testing Times
Former RLPA secretary and Newcastle Knights prop, Tony Butterfield, fires up over dawn raids.

Obituary
Dare to Win
The union movement has lost an inspirational leader of working men and women, writes Jeana Vithoulkas

Fiction
Tommy's Apprentice
Chapter Two - Tommy�s Tale.

L E T T E R S

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Reaping What You Sow

Amanda Vanstone will need more than her substantial hide to protect the Federal Liberals from the voting peccadillos of thousands of disgruntled and thankfully educated parents, who are already unable to see any viable blue collar future in Australia for their children as school leavers.

Amanda Vanstone and her party has supported this wrong-minded political exploitation of third world countries for decades, now it is accommodated within this countries borders.

State owned Hunan Industrial Equipment at Wetherill Park, apart from being an embarrassment to Joe Tripodi, and Minister John Della Bosca at a State level, is a localised microcosm of what many thinking people are able to understand is the rape and pillage of Australasia by world class money men.

The interest of our Papua New Guinea and Timor allies in the gas reserves between Australia and New Guinea/Timor have been traded away to Indonesian dictators for a shameful and embarrassing kickback, in full view of anyone with a TV and hearing.

This whole process will be exposed as simply bad politics, regardless of which politician or party indulges in and supports it! Australians have never played on a level playing field, mincing about on the world stage only to become the lowest common denominator is not our lot.

Edward James, NSW

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