Issue No 46 | 17 March 2000 | |
Letters to the EditorThe Real Big Fella
I have just come across Workers Online and am most impressed both with the content and the potential for rank and file participation and discussion. One tiny point however. I really don't think those with a long memory of NSW Labor history would approve of referring to Kim Beazley as "the big fella". There was and will ever be only one big fella and that was Jack Lang. Lang (who I met on quite a few occasions) had the wonderful advantage of outliving all his enemies and indeed most of his contemporaries. He could thus rewrite the history of his career to suit himself. It's all a matter of opinion of course, I am one who reckons that for the most part Premier Lang was right. But in his embittered middle age Lang was a rat and a wrecker. He did terrible harm to the NSW party (when it was worth preserving) and did his best to destroy several Labor leaders including Chifley. I could not imagine Beazley becoming embittered or destructive like Lang,he seems to have more resilience. so maybe we should think up another title for him. I suggest Prime Minister. Ivan Pagett
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Interview: Bob Carr�s Awful Truth The NSW Premier on Laborism, factions and why the Cabinet Office isn't running the state. Unions: The Stellar Experiment The agenda for the future job-shedding program by Telstra has been revealed via it's bastard child, Stellar. Technology: Roboboss is Watching You Behind the hype of the information age is a sinister side where workplace surveillance robs employees of all privacy and dignity. Sometimes, though, it provides welcome security. International: Kiwi Reforms To Spark Union Revival The head of the New Zealand trade union movement is optimistic that workers will come back to unions once a fair industrial relations framework is put in place. Politics: Ethical Politics and the Clinton Affair The vote by the US House of Representatives in December, 1998 on whether to impeach President Bill Clinton could be regarded as a debate about the acceptability of dirty-handed politics. History: Living Library Sydney�s Mitchell Library archives house some of the most extensive records of our political heritage. Satire: Reconciliation, Aussie Style The majority of Austrlaians want Aboriginals to adopt �our� values: �Why can�t they be ignorant racists too?� Review: Casino Oz Laurie Aarons' new book puts the spotlight on the growing gap being the rich and the poor.
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