
Issue No 25		06 August 1999

Letters to the Editor

Country Labor Asks Question

Hi Workers On-Line

This letter is regarding the new Country Labor scheme. Does anyone in the city know what we in the country who have been members of the Australian Labor party for years, really want. We want to be treated equally not differently. We aren't mushroom who thrive on bullshit or like to be kept in the dark.

We don't appreciate being patronized on one side by Sussex Street, with this high prifile new Country Labor crap. While on the other we have the state Labor Government stab us in the back with this new Centralizing of services policy. It will see small country towns stripped of government based jobs, National parks and Wildlife etc. to boost the larger regional centres.

Why bother boosting the populations of Queanbeyans & Wagga Waggas of this world at the expense of such equally deserving, just smaller communities. In my own electorate, Eden, Bomballa and Jindabyne to name just three are being pushed to the wall as it is with the rural decline. Now we have Mr Carr's Government, a government that we in the country branches busted our guts to retain in power. This same govenment is stripping the country of needed positions and personnel. They are instituting a policy to drain those communities of Government employees to be relocated to Canberras little sister Queanbeyan, why why why.

Stuffed if I know, all the lip service in the world, and face it Country Labor is just that, wont change the way we are treated. Country labor is to be run by Sussex Street for the benefit of Sussex Street, and we in the country won't be treated any better.

If you think it will show me how, show the ALP members in Jindabyne. Show them why they should bother when they have to explain to the locals why our State Government treats them with such disdain.

Danny Stapleton

ALP member in Cooma NSW.

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Issue 25 contents

Interview: Beneath the Arch
Arch Bevis has been given the job of charting Federal Labor�s agenda for the 21st century. He tells us where he�s heading.

Unions: What If the Bug Bites?
Health workers are planning contingencies for the Millennium Bug. Just in case...

Politics: It's a Wired, Wired World
Labor's federal IT spokeswoman Kate Lundy looks at some of the challenges for politics in the information economy.

International: Lufthansa faces Global Cyber-picket
270 workers sacked for a one�day strike - support the T&G campaign for human rights at Heathrow.

Satire: Outrage as Freed Killer Lives in House
Despite moving away from Waterloo Primary School, controversy continues to follow released killer John Lewthwaite after it was discovered that he is now living in a house.

Review: Reversing Union Decline
A leading labour thinkers asks: how do we turn back the membership tide?

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» Crew of Convenience Behind Sydney Oil Spill?

» Sixty Junkets Join Currawong Hit Squad

» Workers Table Petition for Gay Reform

» Indonesian Trade Union Leaders to Visit Australia

» International And Community Groups Oppose Reith�s Bill

» Guest Report

» Sport

» Trades Hall

» Piers Watch

» Country Labor Asks Question

» The Ombudsman Replies

» Confessions of a German Call Centre Agent

» WorkCover Off the Track

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