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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.
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.
When the Truth Hurts
Some rare moments of candour this week have vindicated all we’ve been saying about WorkChoices and more.
 Howard's Advocate Fesses Up
Cowra - Work Slaughter Legal
You're Killing Us - BHP Charged Again
Revealed: Beaconsfield Led AWA Charge
Warehouse Pushes the Envelope
Independent Schools Push Class Warfare
Spotlight on Howard’s Porkies
PM Backs Visa Buster
Sutton Wants Middle Men Probed
ATO Recruiting for WorkChoices
Taxpayers to Fund Ad Orgy
New Deal on Canberra Menu
Appeal for East Timor
Activist's What's On!
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Poetry
Fair Go Gone
Employers in the land rejoice, for we are girt by greed.
Where has Australia's fair go gone?
Where has Australia's fair go gone
since Messrs Right screwed the world
gone into laissez-fair where foxes roam
and workers' entitlements are game for all.
Where have young apprentices gone
and the developing of skills on the go
gone to jungles of shift cheap labour
where accidents take their toll .
Where has the 8-hours labour gone
the respite, the play, the applause
gone to the heap of casualisation
and slave-driven factories off-shore.
Where has the annual leave gone
the earned carefree days of before
gone to the trade-offs as a remedy
for a bit of security and certainty.
Where has workplace safety gone
the shield of sunrays and comfort
gone to the trade-offs obsequiously
with penalty rates and many more.
Where has collective bargaining gone
mateship, unity, respect and status
gone to the foxes' game and gain
by courtesy of Messrs Right and Co.
Where have all the unions gone
the brave defenders of the workforce
gone tackling the wilds of deregulation
outsourcing and globalization.
Where have Messrs Right gone
and their humbug rule of the world
gone into the scraps of history
with cloven-hoofed years in their record.
Yota Krili
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