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  Issue No 19 Official Organ of LaborNet 25 June 1999  

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Letters to the Editor

Has Labor Lost the Plot? You Bet!


Sir or Madam,

Has Labor lost the plot? My opinion is the Labor Party for twenty years haven't had a plot to lose. The failings of the Labor Party are just not in the area of policy.

Many of the Labor ELITE'S have made them selves very rich "Thank you very much "on the backs of the die hard rank and file members of the Labor Party and of course the union movement, maneuvering there way into State and Federal Parliaments.

Suffice to say with the scandal of business dealings and travel rorts they do not represent the Working Class, any more than the Liberal Party. To think that these ELITE'S can earn more money from travel expenses than an average man/women working in a factory some where beggars belief.

I could go on about the Superanuation Schemes etc etc, but the Working Class are no longer buying it. It was obvious from the last election that the Labor Party is in decline.

The present Government is in my opinion the most evil bunch of mis-fits to grace the floors of Parliament House, and there agenda for the Working Class has only just started, however things will have to get much worse before the Labor Party will return to power. If and when they do, the real test will be if any reforms are made to reverse the draconian policy's of the Liberal Party. I think not.

I would like to think that the Labor Party will revert back to it's Working Class roots, but as they have embraced the Global Economy and New World Order with such zeal, the only outcome will be more of the same Capitalist anti Working Class policy's. One has only to look to the U.S.A and other Western Country's to see how the new Global Economy agenda is driving thousands of workers out of there jobs, and the employers looking to the cheap labor markets of Mexico etc.

I have been a Socialist since I started work and I still subscribe to Socialist Ideals, however those ideals do not include the Hawk's, Keating's, Richardson's, Hayden's, Crean's, Kernot's, and other's of their ilk who have broken the heart's of the TRUE BELIEVERS.

Regards Phill.


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*  Interview: Moore for the Battlers
NCOSS director Garry Moore gives the community sector's response to this week's State Budget
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*  Unions: AWU's Bush Blitz
"This is AWU Country". That's the slogan for the Australian Workers Union as it launches its campaign to address the specific needs of workers throughout regional and rural Australia.
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*  Indigenous: Nowhere to Run, Nowhere to Hide
A United Nations committee slams Australia on indigenous native title rights.
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*  International: Unions Post-War Stand
The world labour group demands KFOR track war-crimes authors and says social dimension central to Balkan reconstruction.
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*  History: How Swede It Was
Swedish seafarers play an important role in South Australia's maritime history.
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*  Review: If He Had Only Listened To Me ...
If Michael Thompson had listened to me the current debate raging in the nation�s opinion pages about his book may not have been as hysterical.
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»  Why Are We Trying To Be Torn Apart?
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»  Thanks to Randwick Council
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