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Issue No. 151 06 September 2002  
E D I T O R I A L

Looking for the Light
As Labor searches for its Light on the Hill at last a senior Labor figure has come out and said it: the main game for the ALP should not be about shedding union involvement but making the movement � and that involvement - stronger.

F E A T U R E S

Interview: Packing a Punch
Former Hawke and Keating Minister Gary Punch injects some sanity into the debate over unions and the ALP

Bad Boss: Basher Takes Back Passage
A new contender for our Bad Boss has emerged as 140 Stegbar workers confront a boofhead with bad attitude, writes Jim Marr

Unions: Five Star Shafting
What is twenty three years of unbroken, fulltime service worth? Eight weeks, according to Tony Abbott, the Federal Government and the cheapskates who run Sydney�s posh Hilton Hotel.

Economics: TINA � Rest In Peace
Sydney University�s Frank Stilwell argues that the �There is No Alternative� school of economics should be consigned to the dustbin of history

International: Against Bush's "War on Terrorism"
Washington has become the first State Labor Council in the U.S. to call on the AFL-CIO to seek repeal of the USA Patriot Act and oppose the Bush Administration, reports Fred Hyde.

Environment: Saving the World
After a ten-day talkfest, are we any closer to saving the world, asks Nick Lucchinelli

History: A Radical Scribe
John Shields loks at the life of Lloyd Ross' brother, Edgar, and his work as a journalist and activist in Broken Hill

Poetry: With A Little Help From My Friend
Even oil giant BP Australasia came out and supported the Kyoto Protocol - but that was not enough for our beloved Prime Minister.

Satire: Colonel Gaddafi Promotes Himself to General
After years of ribbing by his Axis of Evil peers, General Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan, Ayatollah Khamenei of Iran and General Than Shwe of Burma, Colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi has finally promoted himself to General.

Review: Workplace Dictatorship
Award-winning journalist Barbara Ehrenreich went undercover in low-wage America to see how people live on six bucks an hour. And what did she find? They can�t.

N E W S

 Cole Comfort: I�m Not Biased

 Grassroots Drives Safety Campaign

 Deloittes Curry Favour on Sub-Continent

 Ansett Workers Short-Changed

 Rail Workers Buck Individual Contract Wage Bribe

 Carr to Drive Hilton Deal?

 Bush Regenerators Weed Out Dodgy Deal

 Insurers in Redfern Rort

 Hairdresser Wins Fight For Wage Justice

 Cabin Crews Argue for �Safety in Numbers�

 �Slave Labour� In Insurance Industry

 Westie Fires Up Over Durries

 Beattie Plods into Risky Territory

 Sydney to Host Social Forum

 Activists Notebook

C O L U M N S

The Soapbox
Ian West on Suncorp Metway
NSW MLC Ian West lifts the lid on moves to impose 'start before you start' clauses in the insurance industry

The Locker Room
Terrible Terry and the Nice Guy from Fitzroy
As the debate over the new coach hots up, Phil Doyle believes that all is not as it seems on the good ship Swan.

Week in Review
War on Terror
Next Wednesday, September 11, marks the anniversary of one of the most brutal acts of terrorism in modern history. Jim Marr�s picking it will pass by virtually un-noticed

Bosswatch
Broken Trust
The corporate world is holding back the waves of accountability with a crackdown on trusts rubbished and resistance to a new plan to increase corporate disclosure.

Women
All In the Family?
Labor Council�s Alison Peters went looking for a family friendly workplace and got caught in a cheesy smokescreen.

L E T T E R S
 Collex Decision is Terrible
 Charity Begins At Home
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Charity Begins At Home


Dear Sir,

With the recent religious conversions of media magnates such as Rupert Murdoch , and the proselytiseism of the labor right and all the Liberals , I thought there must be a new angle in kissing the ring.

So to satisfy my curiosity, I delved into the machinations of the "Holy Orders", and was not surprised to find one attraction could possibly be the profits to be made from the public purse, in the amalgamation of a captive audience controlled by the benevolent "Sister of Charity", who founded, and with the assistance of the public purse manage the "St Vincent's" hospital complexes.

"The Sisters of Charity were the first professional nurses in the penal colony of New South Wales. They have provided and inspired high quality services within a distinctive Christian environment since the foundation of St Vincent's Hospital in 1857. Today, the SCHS operates five highly regarded and leading health facilities on two Campuses in Sydney"

With this foundation came the current proclaimed ethics:

Compassion: Accepting people as they are, bringing to each the love and tenderness of Christ

Justice: Acting with integrity and respecting the rights of all

Human Dignity: Respecting the uniqueness of each person created in the image and likeness of God

Excellence: Excelling in all aspects of our healing ministry

Unity: Creating a community characterised by harmony and collaboration

It is unfortunate that the "Human Resources "department of this profitable organisation has not been imbued with the same ethics that bind the rest of the organisation.

This department have had tuition from that the illustrious Archbishop of Warringah , who in turn must have been under the spiritual tutelage of and following in the footsteps of such illumanati as "Thom�s de Torquemada.,. . Miguel de Morillo., Martin Ponce de Leon, I�igo Manrique, Francisco S�nchez de la Fuente, Alonso Su�rez de Fuentelsaz in driving those who they come in contact with to the depths of despair , and suicide.

Perhaps this is just another pro-active business proposition , more business for the psychologists to treat the depression and priests to bury the suicides , it has been said the Devil looks after his own?

It would appear that the only excellence this department of the "Sisters of Charity" show any benevolence to is their own inquisitors.

Perhaps when the COLE Royal Commission has probed and prodded the "CFMU", enough to satiate the predatory voraciousness of the Abbotts , they can turn on these duplicitous kneelers and ring kissers , who are preparing these public hospitals for privatisation.

Perhaps this is the next investment for news Ltd......

Tom Collins


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