
Issue No 25		06 August 1999

News

Sixty Junkets Join Currawong Hit Squad

We are bracing for another media bucket job over the Currawong development with news that Sixty Minutes' chief bomb-thrower Richard Carlton was this week ejected from the Transcendental Meditation movement's Dutch headquarters.

Seems Carlton was shown the door after beginning an interview with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi on the pretence of being open-minded, then preceded to launch an aggressive and insulting attack on the TM movement.

The TM hysteria has been whipped up by the self-styled Friends of Currawong, who mask personal interest in maintaining the Pittwater retreat as their private playground with allegations against the TM organisation.

The well-connected friends have sponsored hostile articles in the Sydney Morning Herald (via Strewth magazine's winner of the Most Earnest Bastard of the Year Award, Adele Horin, the Daily Telegraph's "workers' advocate" Piers Akerman, the Financial Review's Julie Macken and 2UE's legend in his own drive time, Mike Carlton.

Interestingly, all of these journalists have had a personal interest in the issue, being either Currawong users (Horin) or Pittwater residents (Macken, Carlton and Akerman).

So now for Sixty minutes. And no prizes for guessing one of the chief Currawong opponents has openly boasted about her ability to generate negative media with her mates at the Nine Network.

At the end of the day none of these elite advocates has been able to explain why the Labor Council should not use its assets to promote training and organisation to revive the floundering union movement.

Instead they have attacked the Council's proposed business partners, attempting to scare them off their private playground. Worse, they have employed the sort of intolerant attitudes and rhetoric to difference that progressive movements have always decried.

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Issue 25 contents

Interview: Beneath the Arch
Arch Bevis has been given the job of charting Federal Laborï¿½s agenda for the 21st century. He tells us where heï¿½s 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 oneï¿½day 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?

» Unions Embrace Open Shop

» Council Sets Benchmarks for Vizard Deal

» Steggles Treats Workers Like Chooks

» Rail Workers on Collision Course with Carr

» Reith Shamed Into Talk On Entitlement Fund

» Unionists Asked to Defer NRMA Vote

» Fire Fighters Use Net

» 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 Reithï¿½s 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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