Maritime Union of Australia: Workers Journal: : Index

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Journal - March 2005

Drug and Alcohol

Cannabis Controversy

MUA drug & alcohol policy on the table

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The Howard Government promised interest rates would not rise. They put the frighteners on about a Labor Government raising rates.... Australian interest rates are now the third highest in the world. Health care costs are ballooning for families. And more interest rate increases to come.

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Members

Sacked

for the love of his union & the love of his life

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Notices

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Obituaries

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Occupational health & safety

OH&S rounds

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Port of call

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Superannuation

Super Bonanza

Multi million dollar super surplus distributed

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Tsunami

Australian seafarer, Owen Steffan, 45, was surfing about 400 metres off a beach in Sri Lanka on Boxing Day morning December 26, when the tsunami hit. He rode in on the first surge.

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Badge of Honour

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World Cricket Star Praises Wharfie Tsunami Fundraiser

Sri Lankan celebrity cricketer Muttiah Muralitharan braved heavy storms that shook Melbourne on February 3 to thank MUA members at Patrick, East Swanson, for collecting $170,000 in clothing and goods for tsunami victims in his homeland.

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book reviews

The Last Seafarer

Wayne Ward first discovered he could write as a young man when the ship delegate told him to take the minutes. His first book, The Last Seaman, is likewise a faithfully recorded meeting of seafarers and ships, a lifetime of conversations and characters.

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politics

John Howard's Brave New IR World

No longer does the Howard Government pretend that no worker will be worse off under a conservative government. When it came time for the Workplace Relations Minister Kevin Andrews to preach his new policy he said outright that ideas of fairness in the workplace were 'misconceived'. Fairness created inefficiency, he claimed.

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