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Friday, November 04, 2005

Workers Online - Issue 288

Terror Laws
It was poetic really, the WorkChoices legislation, all 1,000 plus pages of it, introduced into Federal Parliament this week under the cloak of terror.No sooner had the legislation lobbed than the PM was diverting the media with talk of an imminent terror attack; and all eyes went straight to the birdie.

We are not denying the PM has some intelligence that needs to be addressed, although why he chose this moment to go public when headmits he had the briefing for a week, it does make you wonder.

And it would have been interesting if a single journalist had asked a question like: how many terror threats of this nature have crossed your desk in the past four years? And if he had said this is the first, then maybe we would be a bit less cynical.

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