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Issue No. 129 | 22 March 2002 |
Not So Happy Campers
Interview: Pulling the Pin International: At the Crossroads Unions: A Case Of Lost Identity History: Rocking the Foundations Industrial: Rocky Road Economics: Cracking a Coldie Poetry: The Right Was Wrong Satire: Heffernan�s Evidence Conclusive: Proves He's An Idiot Review: Upstairs, Downstairs
Giant Rat Fights Cole Commission Queue Jumper Abbott In Cash Grab Rabbit Fence Leads Reconciliation to Classroom Council Takes Up Discrimination Challenge Power Workers To Decide Own Fate Fee Pressure Builds on Beattie Nobel Committee 'Subordinates' Union Rights Columbians Level Death Charges Call To Blockade Burmese Junta
The Soapbox The Locker Room Postcard Cole-Watch Week in Review
Letter to Howard #2 Letter to Howard #3 Jump Before You're Pushed
Labor Council of NSW |
Letters to the Editor Letter to Howard #3
Dear Prime Minister, I write to you regarding a matter of National importance. For some time now I have lived in the leafy riverside suburb of New Farm in the inner North of Brisbane. It has become increasingly obvious to me over recent times that scores of Upper Class, Socially Conservative, Economically Well Off individuals having been moving into our once "Working Class haven" and changing the social fabric of our neighbourhood. They are moving in by there thousands in their Mercedes M-Class 4 Wheel Drives and Range Rovers and appear to have no respect for the laws or values of our lovely little community. They are erecting high rise slums and basically changing the whole ambience of our community so as that we are now left to feel like foreigners in our own suburb. These people have moved in with their socially divisive politics and racial intolerance and have shown absolutely no regard for the generations of workers and their families that have made New Farm such a great place to live. May I request Mr Prime Minister that you remove New Farm from Australia's Migration zone so as to avoid the continual moral and social decay that we are subjected to. May I also suggest that you have the Australian Federal Police conduct a sweep of the area to round up all these horrible people (they might even uncover some evidence against Justice Kirby). Maybe these awful beings could be stored pending a decision on their status in that wonderful new detention centre that you are building on Christmas Island. Given the overwhelming success of your Governments Pacific Solution it obviously won't be needed to house those pesky boat people and it would be such a shame to see it go to waste. I know this request may seem a little out of left field, but I understand there is some precedence for it. Yours sincerely Gerard Carlyon
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