Issue No 104 | 27 July 2001 | |
NewsWorkers Rejects Brough Deal
Welfare workers are fighting plans by Employment Minister, Mal Brough to apply Job Network style privatisation to other public sector welfare and disability services. The reaction follows Brough's announcement this week that the Productivity Commission is to "examine the policy framework for the Job Network....and the potential for application of the model to other types of Commonwealth Government services." Community and Public Sector Union National Secretary, Wendy Caird, claims the Job Network's ongoing accountability and transparency problems should encourage a move away from - not towards - further privatisation. "This government's record on privatisation is appalling. Without fail, services are cut, jobs disappear and profits are creamed off. We have seen it with Telstra, detention centres and IT outsourcing. Quite frankly, I don't think the community believes their privatisation rhetoric any more," Caird says. "Notwithstanding the skills and commitment of many Job Network providers, the imposition of 'for profit' structures on these kinds of public services will always compromise their transparent and impartial delivery." "What the Government is suggesting would lead to the privatisation of Centrelink. This would directly affect Australia's 6 million welfare recipients and remove certainty and security for many of the community's most vulnerable people" she says.
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Interview: A Super Agenda Labor's federal spokesman on superannuation Kelvin Thompson outlines the challenges a Beazley Government will face in managing the nation's savings. E-Change: 1.4 The Shifting Sands of Ideology Peter Lewis and Michael Gadiel conclude the first part of their study of new politics by looking for core Labor values in a post-Cold War environment. Corporate: Locking Horns The same names keep cropping up in the business pages as the web of corporate control stays tied to a few big players. Georgina Murray has been looking at the extent and depth of the connections. Unions: The Workers Bank With banks on the nose, David Whiteley looks at how unions and super funds have got together to create the real deal � the workers bank. International: Phil Davey's Amazon Postcard The CFMEU's Boy Wonder has downed the megaphone for three months in South America. Here's what he's been up to. History: Faded Vision of The American Bounder King O'Malley was an American ex-pat who dreamed of a people's bank. Neale Towart looks at what happened to his vision. Activists: The Big Gee-Up With the big guns of the anti-corporate movement in town, Mark Hebblewhite goes looking for a definition of globalisation. Indonesia: Where to the Workers After Gus Dur? At the end of a turbulent week, Jasper Goss looks at the impact of the overthrow of Wahid on Indonesian workers. Review: Mixing Pop and Politics 'The Bank' is a new Australian film that takes a contemporary political issue and transforms it into a piece of compelling popular culture. Satire: Milosevic's Defence: "I Was Just Issuing Orders" Disgraced former Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic has brushed off against charges for war crimes against humanity and mass genocide.
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