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Issue No. 295 | 17 February 2006 |
Please Explain
Interview: Court's in Session Industrial: Whose Choices? Politics: Peter's Principles Environment: TINA or Greener? History: Its Not Just Handshakes and Aprons International: US Locks out Jose' Bove Education: No AWA - No Job Culture: Jesus was a Long-Grass Man Review: Charlie the Serf
Conscience II - RU4 Aussie Jobs? Online Porkies Spark Class Action Captain Cook Discovers WorkChoices STOP PRESS - 262 Day Strike Set To Finish Memo Costa: Remember Your Roots Filipinos Pay for Packed House
The Soapbox The Locker Room Parliament
The Black GST
Labor Council of NSW |
Letters to the Editor The Black GST
As an LHMU member, the article " Capital Punishment on the Menu" made clear that it is the calm before the storm. The vulnerability of Filipino guest workers are a sharp example of Federal government IR policy to return Australia back to the regime of individual contracts under the Masters and Servants Act of the 19th century. Its not just foreign workers. Indigenous people were put on Work-For-The-Dole labour programs ten years before non-Indigenous workers. They have always been underpaid, treated like slaves and racially vilified. Indigenous public servants are leaving the government bureaucracy running Aboriginal affairs in droves because of the taken position they play. The paternalism of Australian governments results in racism that is all pervasive in the lives of every single Indigenous person. For 218 years there has been rampant land theft, stolen wages and children, and the decimation of entire Aboriginal nations. This has been, and continues to be an ongoing genocidal war. The Stolenwealth Games in Melbourne, and the spin congratulating our so-called multiculturalism hides a dark history, and the present reality of Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australia. The Black GST, which stands for Genocide to be stopped. Sovereignty to be restored. Treaty to be made has an Indigenous leadership bringing together Indigenous and non-Indigenous people. We will be opposing the Games as part of our convergence in Melbourne from all over Australia. There is unfinished business between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australia, and that is the reason to support the Black GST. Craig R Hall Indigenous Social Justice Association ( Melbourne Supporter's Group )
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