guest_writer 0 2006-05-11T00:00:00Z  Australia's trade unions are set to become the kind of powerless, empty shells that unions were under communist dictatorships The main purpose of the Howard Government's new industrial relations laws is to destroy the trade union movement. It's true that to this point almost all attention has been focused on the effects of the new laws in directly undermining job security and... Michael 35254 false false false false 2006-05-11T00:00:00Z Costello 10239 3896 0 1 Australian Labor Laws new-labour-laws-look-to-the-soviets-by-michael-costello New Labour Laws Look To The Soviets 2009-09-25T00:55:08Z 11563