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Hi VirtualSteve - the article is looking fine now, and that case law addition is an interesting one. A question for you though- if the article were to start off with a sentence like "The Oi Group is a <blank> offering industrial relations etc advocacy, based in X, Australia", what would be the best substitute for <blank>? --cjllw | TALK 22:44, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks CJLLW - I appreciate the point and have tried to answer your question practically by adjusting the article in its lead description. What do you think? Please change if you see a better way of putting this. I also appreciate the comment about the case law. The difficulty is of course that after almost 10 years of operation there are many cases - some public and others not that could be put up, not to mention the fact of things like 10's of 1000's of employees covered by Australian Workplace Agreements and Certified Agreements etc that The Oi Group has written, advocated for, etc but most of these simply can't be named in a public forum. I have to think of a way of referring to the fact of these sort of tasks because the effect of this work is that it has strongly influenced (and continues to influence) the wages and conditions of many organisations and industries. It is probably important to Wiki as a result. Any thoughts? (PS - on assignment in Japan and Hong Kong for 12 days from tomorrow will try to get back to you during that time.) --VirtualSteve | TALK 18:14, 15 December 2005

thanks steve, I think that lead amendment makes things a little clearer for now- was not too sure whether something like "legal advocacy firm" or some such was appropriate. And I can appreciate the difficulties re confidentiality and appropriateness for public mentioning vis-a-vis specific clients/cases. I noticed on an earlier search that some at least of the AIRC's determinations are publicly available through their website- perhaps if you know of any other 'case law' type determinations in this field whose rulings have some wider impact, maybe these could be referenced, either here (if Oi was involved), or at the workplace relations article or some other comparable one? Then a citeable source could be given. Regards, --cjllw | TALK 09:30, 15 December 2005 (UTC)