
Issue No 31		17 September 1999

News

Nurses Collect Vital Medical Supplies

The NSW Nurses Association is co-ordinating a drive to secure vital medical supplies to be sent into East Timor with the first wave of peacekeepers.

The union has contacted hospitals, nursing homes, health facilites and pharmacies to provide a list of needed medicines for APHEDA, the trade union aid agency.

Nurses Association secretary Sam Moaitt says extra staff have had to be rostered onto the switch boards to field offers of assistance.

APHEDA has asked registered unions at the union to co-ordinate the urgent collection, checking and dispatch of the required material to Darwin.

Nurses are seeking the following equipment:

- the oral antibiotics Amoxycillin and Flucloxillin

- the anitmalarial Chloroquine

- antiseptic Iodine

- Chloromycetin eye drops.

- Paracetemol

- dressing packs

- crepe bandages

- field bandages

- oral rehydration therapy

- and packs containing artery forceps, nylon sutures and scissors.

These materials can be delivered to Nurses Association offices in Sydney: 43 Australia Street Camperdown (ph Lynne Ridge or Kate Adams on 9550 3244) or Newcastle: 120 Tudor Street, Hamilton.

ACTU to Lift Industrial Bans

Meanwhile, the ACTU has recommended that industrial bans placed on Indonesian interests be suspended from the time of arrival of peacekeepers in East Timor.

The ACTU says it remains prepared to recommend a reimposition of the bans should Indonesia not uphold commitments given to the United Nations in relation to the peacekeeping force entering East Timor.

   For full statement, visit the ACTU

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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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» Nurses Collect Vital Medical Supplies

» Industrial Faction for Pre-Conference Caucus

» Lees Backs Freeloader Laws

» Outsourcing Decision - Banks Under the Gun

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

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» Cost-Cutting Puts Clinical Waste in Landfill

» Prisons Reject Free Computers

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