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Issue No. 127 | 08 March 2002 |
Power Plays
Interview: Still Flying Women: Suffrage or Suffering Industrial: No Coco Pops For Brenda Unions: Back to the Heartland Activists: Getting to the Point International: Push Polling Economics: Debt Defaulters Poetry: Those Were the Days Review: Black Hawk Dud Satire: Fox-Lew Launch Rescue Bid for Beta Video
Dunny Wars: Will Workers Carry the Can? Go Forth and Multiply � Unions on Women Howard Shuts Workers Out Of Steel Talks Questions Remain As Rio Rings Changes Unions Fight 'Industrial Blackmail' IT Workers Get Their Own Geek Scopes Brazilian Unions Study Aussie Experience
The Soapbox The Locker Room Week in Review Tool Shed
Collins Goes Cahill
Labor Council of NSW |
News New Tack on Asylum Seekers
The ACTU executive this week endorsed a detailed report prepared for the Independent Education Union by the Edmund Rice Centre for Justice and Community Education as a basis for a comprehensive policy position.
Key recommendations of the report include: - ending the Temporary Protection Visa system and giving all refugees immediate access to Permanent Protection Visas. - ending mandatory detention and replacing it with a compulsory processing system. - all asylum seekers to be released into the community after initial processing for health and security checks unless a court order is obtained - ending the system of tendering for the management of detention facilities and returning them to direct government control - establishing a fast-track processing facility on Christmas Island. - ending the Pacific Solution and entering negotiations with Indonesia and other source countries IEU NSW secretary Dick Shearman said the union commissioned the report in response to concerns about the divisive debate by its members, who work in independent schools of all denominations. "Before we can hope to shift community attitudes to a more humane postion, we need to deliver workable policies that meet legitimate community concerns about the integrity of our borders. "I think the report we have put forward is both responsible and compassionate. "We need to stop fighting on John Howard's terms - the first step is to change the language around terms like 'mandatory detention' while recognising legitimate concerns about the need to process new arrivals." View the full report: http://www.nswactieu.labor.net.au/whatsnew/research.pdf
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