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Less Is More
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Interview: Still Flying
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International: President Gas
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Politics: Australia: A Rogue State?
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Poetry: A Man From the East And A Man From The West
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Pressure Grows for Refugee Debate
A coalition of trade unions are rank and file members is shaping up to force debate on border protection policy onto the agenda of the ALP National Conference.
While the conference has been called to debate Rule Changes recommended in the Hawke-Wran Review, backers of a refugee debate say it too is a key part of the federal election review.
NSW Labor Council secretary John Robertson says he'll move to have the issue debated if a petition of rank and file members being circulated by Labor For Refugees is widely supported.
The Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union is one of many trade unions backing the resolutions, in an intriguing twist on the 60-40 debate.
While the structural debate is about the relative influence of trade unions and rank and file members, the refugee debate cuts across this divide by providing a united front for change to the Parliamentary wing of the party.
"Senator Robert Ray in the Australian this week referred to Labor for Refugees as 'dissenter'," CFMEU NSW secretary Andrew Ferguson says.
We need to make it clear to the Federal Leadership that the so called dissenters are not Labor for Refugees supporters but are the members of the ALP who resisting the democratic voice of the ALP membership around the country"
The petition can be accessed at: http://www.labor4refugees.org/petition/
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