Abbott government-supported efforts to pursue individual construction workers for strike penalties – including preventing the sale of assets such as homes – have been branded as an "unprecedented" ideological attack.
GOAL! Estonia 0-4 Republic of Ireland (Keane 88pen) Robbie Keane puts Ireland 4-0 up with a beautifully struck penalty into the bottom right-hand corner.
Hook, kicking as assuredly as if he was directing traffic behind a rampaging pack, put Wales 10 points clear on the quarter-hour with a long, languidly struck penalty.
Owen had the chance to kill the game and the tie on the hour but he passed it up, Antonioli saving his poorly struck penalty, contentiously awarded after Emile Heskey had tangled with Jonathan Zebina.
The home side were clearly rattled and found it difficult to settle into the game, but when Wigan were penalised for a grapple tackle on Gareth Carvell, Danny Tickle opened their account with a well struck penalty.
It was a good save, a decently struck penalty from Scott Vernon.
Their winner came from Liam Craig's confidently struck penalty seven minutes from time.
Humphreys kicked the conversion with ease as Ulster took a three-point lead into the half-time break but, just nine minutes into the second half, Myler restored parity with a confidently struck penalty.
Before that, Horne, playing at fly-half, had put seven points on the board with a try and conversion, a lead cut by Luciano Orquera's confidently struck penalty soon after.
He had lost three previous play-off finals, with Sunderland, West Brom and Blackpool and his brilliantly struck penalty provided a fairytale ending to the final, and perhaps his career.
And it grew not long afterwards, with two long, and more assuredly struck, penalties from the same boot.
