Faithful will hold the state of the unions

Posted: 20 May 12 | You could see it was tear in the eye, lump in the throat time at the Australian Council of Trade Unions Conference last week as the Silver Bodgie belted out Solidarity Forever on every newscast. |

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People with mobiles make city heart beat

Posted: 06 May 12 | Among all the acronyms that dominate our lives, here’s a sweet one: GLAM. |

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Feet thump to ground for uneasy workforce

Posted: 22 Apr 12 | By now, Toyota management must be feeling ready to settle for any slogan, anything at all, instead of their irretrievably brand-linked ‘‘Oh, what a feeling!’’ campaign. |

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Peak body punches well above its weight

Posted: 10 Apr 12 | If last week’s suspension of the Health Services Union showed anything, it’s that the ACTU doesn’t know its own strength. |

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Aborting the laws on rights of unborn

Posted: 26 Mar 12 | They're calling it the War on Women. |

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Aborting the laws on rights of unborn

Posted: 25 Mar 12 | They're calling it the War on Women. Well, of course they would. It’s election season in the US, and both political parties expect to gain from this particular culture wars battle. |

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Not what you know, but how you know it

Posted: 11 Mar 12 | Did our new Minister for Foreign Affairs, Bob Carr, take an oath of office last week? Or did he offer a pledge of allegiance? |

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Ouch! Pollies vie for term-inator of abuse

Posted: 26 Feb 12 | Ah, it’s been a sad week for the Australian political scene. |

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Outfoxing the idea of US-style news show

Posted: 12 Feb 12 | Feed ‘‘websites about words’’ into an internet search engine and you’ll have 950million-odd hits. |

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Carrying Betty's fight forward on equal pay

Posted: 29 Jan 12 | Some time after 10.30 this morning, perhaps at the Mary Immaculate Catholic Church in Waverly, or maybe after at Woronora Cemetery, someone is going to say an 85-year-old woman was ‘‘a real fighter’’. |

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Spare a thought for those too rich in time

Posted: 16 Jan 12 | The council car parks are gradually filling up, the morning saunter is back to being the morning rush, and suddenly the world once again ticks to bosses’ time. |

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Horses for courses: pollies take biscuit

Posted: 02 Jan 12 | It's the broken-biscuit time of year. All the Christmas presents are unwrapped, all the New Year fireworks over. |

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Apocalypse delayed, but gossip's still on

Posted: 18 Dec 11 | There'll be a political sex scandal in Canberra in 2012. There’ll be one in Washington, too. And probably in Sydney. |

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Well-versed word nerds get final say

Posted: 05 Dec 11 | What’s your suggestion for Newcastle’s Word of the Year 2011? |

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Bridging the great community divide

Posted: 21 Nov 11 | It's like a brain bruise: put “Newcastle City Council” and “fig trees” in the same sentence and many Novocastrians wince, whatever side the writer takes. |

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Shade of past haunts Joyce's work choice

Posted: 08 Nov 11 | The day Qantas grounded its fleet, Twitter had a label for it within minutes: #workjoyces. |

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Can't see political wood for the trees

Posted: 24 Oct 11 | EVERY now and then a term comes along that is so exactly what’s needed it seems impossible that nobody thought of it before. This time it’s ‘‘physics envy’’. |

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