Are the ACTU suspicious of the new government? They might have good reason to be, writes Christian Kerr.
Unfair dismissal laws
Fury on the Mersey: Nurses keen to avoid another fiasco
The Howard Government appears to have come unstuck in its indecent haste to make political capital the Mersey hospital, writes Nick Blake. Meanwhile, there’s been a hitch in Tony Abbot’ts plan to transfer 400 staff from state to Commonwealth employment, writes Ian McAuley.
Abjorensen: Has the larrikin disappeared from politics?
If 1996 was the revenge of the nerds, 2007 offers no choice at all: whatever the outcome a nerd wins, writes Norman Abjorensen.
Flint: Coalition must remember the “forgotten people”
The Coalition will have to persuade the undecided that they have the better team, the better policies, and they are the safest hands. And above all, it should remember their natural constituency, the “forgotten people,” writes David Flint.






