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Issue No. 131 | 12 April 2002 |
Cry Freedom
Interview: Cross Wires International: Two Tribes Activists: Beneath the Veil Unions: Terror Australis History: A Labor Footnote To The Royal Funeral Economics: Private Affluence, Public Rip-Off Review: The Great Hall of the People Poetry: Waiting for the Living Wage Satire: Israel Recruits NAB To Close West Bank
Baby Company Punts Netball Mum Dairy Workers Win Global Breakthrough Treasury Modelling Backs ACTU Claim Come Clean � Insurance Giants Challenged Job Security Win For Cabin Crew Workers Gear-up For Pollution Fight Shuffling The Deck On The Yarra Doubts Over Ettalong Wharf Funding
The Soapbox The Locker Room Week in Review
A Voice for the Shareholders Noses in the Trough Bugger Off Memo: Carmen Lawrence Police: Make the Boss a Woman Baby Faced Brogden Workers Online - Aoteroa
Labor Council of NSW |
Letters to the Editor Workers Online - Aoteroa
Dear Sir, I have on occasions read your newspaper and am impressed with your stands against racism. It is obvious from the efforts made to ensure that the Refugees which have landed on your shores are as welcome as a spring daffodil. Do you treat your indiginous population with the same kindness. In New Zealand we Maori are still treat as second class citizens , and denied the same rights as the European invaders e.g. The Scots and the Irish barbarians used by the English to do their dirty work. It was less than 50 years ago that we were severley beaten for speaking our own language in school. My uncle , who grew up with his Grandmother , who only spoke Maori was beaten daily until he learned to speak enough English to please an obviously racist teacher. My mum , never had shoes until she was sent to Nelson to work on a tobacco farm , at age 12 and got the cast offs from the farmers daughter. When she went to school in winter , they hopped from cow pat to cow pat to keep their feet from freezing , this is in her own land. It is just gear to see that your first nation peoples , do not still need to live like us. If we still had a strong trade union base Aoteroa , our plight might be better. Is it any wonder that our mortality rate is that of a third world country , our youth commit suicide , through despair effort they have an opportunity to taste live and our men are set to prison for being themseleves. We need a publication like yours in New Zealand to defend the weak and downtrodden. The"UTU" IS STILL ALIVE IN THE HEART OF THE MAORI. Forgive my spelling , it was the European education.. Tame Teke Ed's Reply: The NZCTU is planning a version of Workers Online wvwn as we speak ....
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