First of all, open up Your Rights at Work in a tab. Get back to it later.
Secondly, if you're in Australia, get some leave for the morning of 15 November and get along to the National Day of Community Protest. Bring the family, friends, random strangers you meet on the street. This is going to be BIG. You'll regret it if you miss it.

Must have been midnight when I wrote that last entry. Sorry for putting anyone who may have read it through such a long diatribe against the Evil Overlord of Australia.

Anyway, the short version: Things are starting to suck now for employees; soon they'll be really bad for anyone who wants to exercise freedom of speech or association.

I'm Australian. Just thought I'd get that out of the way first, so you know I'm talking about John Winston Howard.

I'm a bit behind on the political news, generally I don't care about it but I just did some catching up and felt the need to vent in a fairly anonymous place, since I could probably lose my job (or perhaps be locked up, secretly or openly, constrained incommunicado to my home, or shot dead while resisting arrest) for thinking what I'm writing about here.