
Issue No 102		13 July 2001

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Letters to the Editor

Wrong Bias?

Dear Sir,

I have read you publication on a regular basis for some months now and have until recently been very impressed with the open and un basised manner in which you discuss Labor Issues.

Unfortunately, over the past few weeks, your publication while not actually advocating violence, it appears to favor the more militant aspects of Unionism.

There is no room in Australia in the 21st century for trade union thugs.

I also notice that your correspondence column is entirely composed of Dorothy Dix comments or letters , is this of a consequence of a change in leadership with the new Secretary of the Labor Council , being of the Trotskyite ilk?

While I still intend to read your publication, its lack of fair reporting and quite blatant propaganda in the form of Editorials and Activists columns , I will be my selective in that which I give credibility to , and pass on to those with who I associate in both my social and professional life.

You may regard my comments as exposing sensitivities , this may be due to - my being a political refugee from Eastern Europe , and having first hand experience of the extremes of both Fascism and Communism.

Your Sincerely

Rudii Zarsoff

(ED: I like the letter - but I don't accept this is your name ...you are betraying your age and the amount of time you spent in pubs in the early eighties)

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Issue 102 contents

Interview: Jolly Green Giant
Senator Bob Brown on the upcoming federal poll, balances of power and what the Greens can teach the trade union movement.

Workplace: Call Centre Takeover
Theresa Davison brings us this real-life story from the coal face of the call centre industry.

E-Change: 1.2 Community � The Ultimate Network
Peter Lewis and Michael Gadiel look at the potential for network technologies to reconnect communities.

International: Child's Play
Union Aid Abroad-APHEDA has recently entered a new alliance with the Child Labour Schools Company to support a project for child labourers in India.

History: Flowers to the Rebels Faded
With the departure of our own Wobbly, a look at the development of the Wobblies in Australia and their view of Labor politicians and the work ethic seems timely.

East Timor: A Dirty Little War
In this extract from his new book, John Martinkus recounts the scenes in Dili immediately following the independence ballot.

Satire: Telstra Share Failure Ends City-Bush Divide: Everybody Screwed Equally
Communications Minister Richard Alston today claimed that the government had fulfilled its promise to ensure that the bush was not disproportionately disadvantaged by Telstra's privatisation.

Review: Cheesy Management
Currently climbing Australian best-seller lists is the 'life-changing' motivational book 'Who Moved My Cheese?' Rowan Cahill has a nibble but doesn't like the taste.

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