
Issue No 31		17 September 1999

Letters to the Editor

Compo Premium Cheats Should be Policed

Given that Workcover is meant to police workers compensation premium issues as well as basic OH&S issues why do they not prosecute those multinationals which avoid these premiums? Why are they more conerned with samller operations? Is it a case of them not having the fight? If the Labor Government were made aware of these issues, would they instruct Workcover to do something?

What do others think of Workcover's ability to provide a safer environment for employees? Or is it the case that unions have to continue to do all the leg work? Workcover is certainly not accountable to those who make complaints to it. As an organisation I think workers think Workcover is bullshit. And given its record they would right. Perhaps it is a fatalist tendancy that giudes my thinking, perhaps they have got their act together somewhere. Could you or your readers perhaps illustrate this?

Thank you for your time.

Yours, Geoff Southern

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Issue 31 contents

Interview: Sadly Vindicated
Labor�s foreign affairs spokesman Laurie Brereton has spent the past year warning that East Timor would explode without a UN peacekeeping force. Now he�s had to watch his predictions come true.

International: In the Bunker
One of the last reporters to leave East Timor, Workers Online's HT Lee remembers the week that Dili burned.

Republic: Tarred With the Same Brush
Neville Wran asks why it is that the most fervant monarchists are also the most eager union-bashers.

Unions: Hard Labour
Prisoner educators argue more attention needs to be given to rehabilitation through teaching, but they�re facing an uphill battle to convince authorities.

History: Labour and Community
A history conference in Wollongong next month will look at the changing role for labour into the next century.

Review: Bobbin' Up - 40 Years On
Forty years after its first publicaton and several European translations Bobbin Up, a classic of industrial fiction, is coming home.

Satire: East Timor Poll Triumph: Support for Jakarta Up 21 Per Cent
The Indonesian Government has declared that it is pleased with the result of the independence referendum in which 21% of East Timorese voted in support of maintaining links with Indonesia.

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» He Talks the Talk - But Can He Walk the Walk?

» Commission Tells AGC to Get Into the Nineties

» Cost-Cutting Puts Clinical Waste in Landfill

» Prisons Reject Free Computers

» US Defence Giant Eyes Welfare Sector