Mark It In Your Diaries, Kids

The 31st of October (or Halloween to you and I - remember, the night where the ghouls rise and haunt us and so forth) is apparently the fateful day that has been chosen to unleash the Four Horsemen of the IR Apocalypse - war (on penalty rates), pestilence (sick leave? who needs sick leave?), famine (hungry? Perhaps its' because you had to work through lunch) and death (of the Industrial Relations Commission).

As with the Telstra legislation, a short, pointless, pseudo Senate enquiry will be held to prove that everything's hunky dory and democratic before it's rammed through as quick as curry through a duck. Three cheers for democracy! Hip-hip-BICAMERAL!

Let's do what we can, people ... check out the links I have on the side of my webpage ------> thataway. As Louise Dodson put it in today's Herald:

But with industrial relations, Howard is facing possibly the biggest political and policy challenge of his career. If the legislation's legitimacy is undermined by legal action, its acceptance by the community will be affected and the Government blamed.

The Government's future will depend to a large extent on the next few weeks when the details of the legislation are finalised.

We may not be able to stop this legislation going through ... but we can make the Howard Government die trying.