E D I T O R I A L

With Prejudice
For anyone doubting the ability of an incumbent government to control the political agenda, this week's sitting of the Cole Royal Commission into the Building Industry made fascinating viewing.

F E A T U R E S

Interview: Class Action
NSW Teachers Federation general secretary Barry Johnson on Bob Carr's election budget and what he needs to do to win back the profession.

Safety: A Mother's Tale
Robin McGoldrick relives the tragedy that prompted her to confront Royal Commissioner Terence Cole over workplace story.

Unions: The Hottest Seat in Town
Nostalgia buffs should make a point of catching at least one session of Tony Abbott�s controversial, Royal Commission, playing to increasingly thin houses in Sydney. Jim Marr sat through the opening scenes.

International: Defensive Enterprise
How can men and women working in the unprotected "informal economy" be helped to better defend their rights? The ICTU grapples with the issue in The Congo.

Economics: A Super Deal?
Neale Towart looks at the debate raging within Labor circles around savings and investment.

History: A Radical Life
Stephen Holt gives an insight into one of the Australian Labor Party�s original true believers through his examination of papers held in the Manuscript Collection

Media: Cross Purposes
Stuart Mackenzie looks at the lines spun at the recent Senate committee hearing into media ownership laws.

Review: When the Force Is Unconscious
Cultural Theoritician Mark Morey reports on how a trip to the Sydney Writers Festival became a battle for intergalactic supremacy.

Poetry: Wouldn't It Be Loverly
For seven decades, Queensland aboriginal workers working under government control were 'paid' below-award wages which were placed into 'trust' accounts which were pilfered, levied, diverted and bled dry.

N E W S

Grieving Mum Turns Cole Around

Hamberger Grilled Over AWA Scam

Government Shrugs Off Death Sentence Charge

Action To Pay Foreign Crew Aussie Wages

Jockeys Face Insurance Crisis

Birds Get More Protection Than Workers

Budget Delivers - But Not For DOCS

Statewide Ban On Grain Loading

Howard Soft On Organised Crime?

UN Honours Building Union Drugs Program

Award-Winning Poet Wins Right To Write

Workers Out For Gay Games

Mahathir Told to Release Labour Activisits

Horta Backs Western Sahara Independence

Activists Notebook

C O L U M N S

The Soapbox
It�s The Members, Stupid.
Those officials obsessed with union voting power in the ALP are missing the point, writes Luke Foley.

The Locker Room
Too Good To Be True
Phil Doyle castes his withering gaze over a week in sport that featured origin square-ups, the World Game in all its glory and a few drunken jockeys.

Bosswatch
In The Cauldron
It was another week of pull-outs, profits de-mergers and takeovers in the corporate world; but some bright news with a plan to make executive pay more accountable.

Week in Review
The Black Letter
Legal mechanisms, national and international, are throwing up challenges to all sectors of our community but the law is a beast of many shapes and sizes as Jim Marr discovers.

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REVOLUTION ON THE INTERNET?

Does new media mean new politics? The Internet has enabled unprecedented global commerce and helped create IT oligopolies - but it has also mobilised millions of people locally and globally with very different visions of a connected world community.

How are old political tactics being used by new media activists?

What works online and what doesn't?

Pluto Institute Seminar

Future Active: Media Activism and the Internet

New Media , New Politics

featuring

McKenzie Wark: Lecturer at the State University, New York, Author Celebrities, Culture and Cyberspace, and The Virtual Republic

Grahame Meikle: Lecturer in Media and Communications, Macquarie University, Author, Future Active

and Richard Neville: Activist and independent media legend

Is the internet the new site for activism?

What's new about new media activism?

Have internet activists restored play to political radicalism?

How much is continuity and how much is transformation?

When : Weds 12th June, 6pm for 6.30pm

Where: Berkelouw Books, 70 Norton Street, Leichhardt

$15/$10

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Sufferagette City

Celebrate 100 years of votes for women in NSW at a special luncheon on Saturday 10th August from 12 noon at the WatersEdge Restaurant, Pier One, 11 Hickson Road, Walsh Bay. This luncheon is being arranged by the Business and Professional Women (BPW) and costs $48 per person for a two course meal and drinks.

For more information contact Val Buswell on 02 9719 8257. Bookings with payment close on 2nd August and should be sent to BPW, PO Box 481, Gladesville, 1675.

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2002 BILL OF RIGHTS CONFERENCE

A major conference on Bill of Rights issues will be held on Friday 21 June at the New South Wales Parliament House Theatrette at Macquarie Street, Sydney.

This event will mark an important point in the ongoing debate over an Australian Bill of Rights, and more generally on questions about legal protection for human rights in Australia.

Speakers include Attorney General Daryl Williams, Shadow Attorney General Robert McClelland, Democrats Attorney General Spokesperson Senator Brian Greig, Justice Sir Kenneth Keith of the New Zealand Court of Appeal, Dr

Sev Ozdowski, Human Rights Commissioner, Professor Larissa Behrendt of the Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning at UTS, Professor Hilary Charlesworth, Chair of the ACT Bill of Rights Inquiry and of ANU, Elizabeth Evatt AC and Bret Walker SC, President of the NSW Bar Association.

The registration fee for the full day (including lunch) is $99 (or $55 for full-time students and concessions). To register, or to receive the full conference brochure (with a registration form and credit card paymentoption), please email [email protected], contact Belinda McDonald on

(02) 9385 2257 or see www.gtcentre.unsw.edu.au.

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THE TEMPEST at The New Theatre

By William Shakespeare

Featuring: John Grinston, Wendy Strehlow, Beth Cardier, Rosie Lalevich, Anthony Hunt, Craig Menaud, Jared Smith, Bruce Menzies, Leigh Rowney, John Keightley, Paul Lyons, Mark Dowler.

Directed by Lee Lewis

Designed by Brett Boardman

A violent storm strands a boat and its inhabitants on the shores of a remote island - casting the lives of the islanders and the new arrivals into disarray as old animosities flare and new connections are forged. How will the new arrivals be dealt with?

New Theatre presents The Tempest - Shakespeare's final play. Exploring the themes of love, betrayal and redemption, as well as the wider issues of colonisation, cultural conflict and border protection, this play is as relevant today as when it was first performed almost 400 years ago.

The Tempest reveals the contradictions and complexities inherent in human nature - Prospero, with his magical books seeking worldly ends; Miranda acquiring love and self-knowledge with the help of other-worldly creatures.

Lee Lewis and Brett Boardman (she spent several years training and working with Andre Serban and Anne Bogart in New York, he is an award-winning Australian photographer) have created a magical production, steeped in oriental influences, incorporating multi-media, puppetry, and physical theatre whilst remaining true to the original text.

This is a not-to-be-missed modern-day fairytale, set on a remote island.

What The Tempest

When 21st June - 20th July - Thur-Sat 8pm Sun 5.30pm

Where New Theatre 542 King St Newtown

Tickets $22 / $15

Press enquiries New Theatre (02) 9519 3403

Bookings MCA Ticketing (02) 9645 1611

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