COVER STORY: Is Canberra listening to ‘the real world’?*

The strongest political opposition to the Howard Government comes not from the Labor opposition, but from the new intake of senators.The resumption of Federal Parliament has been dominated by the fact that, for the first time in a generation, the Coalition parties have a majority in the Senate and can therefore expect to secure passage of legislation long blocked in the upper house.The Prime Minister, John Howard, has put industrial relations reform, the sale of Telstra and terrorism at the top …

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