Thursday, November 17

Swiped from the squatters version of Crikey.com's daily email.
" Phil Teece writes:
If anybody needs further evidence that the government and its business supporters want to sneak the new IR Bill through with minimum scrutiny, you can find it in the refusal of both to put up a speaker for a proposed National Press Club debate [Professor Ron McCallum stood in with awesome and typical erudition, btw]. But the real clincher comes when you look at the huge 687-page Bill and its 565-page explanatory memorandum. No index!!"


No that has to be the observation of a librarian of some kind *G* Makes me wonder if there are other 'points of access' (as I was taught to call them in library schoo) for this document.
It also leads one to a contemplation of the usefulness of a piece of legislation if there is no way to easily find sections or concepts without either a table of contents or an index. It does make one start to wonder if there is something to be hidden ... and that is not a nice thought at all.

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