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Saturday, October 22, 2005

Workers Online - Issue 286

Editorial: Lord of the Lobster Legs
It was probably only shame that prompted the Prime Minister to draghimself away from a $250 per head fundraiser to meet with a group of emergency workers in Wollongong this week. But, this in itself may be adevelopment.

After all, this has to be one of the most shameless power plays in recent political history: a legislative assault on workers rights, backed by $100 million in wall to wall political advertising funded by
the very taxpayers who are about to be duded.

But when hundreds of Wollongong workers rallied outside the business lunch, the PM agreed to a rare meeting and invited a union delegation including a local police officer, a midwife and a fire fighter to probe him on the impact of his changes.

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