
Issue No 52		05 May 2000

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Victims Compo Win for Workers

NSW Cabinet has agreed to exempt workers who are involved in armed hold-ups and abductions from plans to restrict access to the state Victims Compensation Scheme.


	Tony Stewart Addresses Labor Council

Labor MP Tony Stewart told the weekly Labor Council meeting that the government had made the exemptions after the intervention of unions' whose members would have been affected by a plan to cut entitlements for psychological harm to victims of crime.

This followed the intervention of the Finance Sector Union, Transport Workers Union, Nurses Association, LHMU and SDA about the impact of the changes.

Stewart, who chaired a cross-party inquiry into the scheme, told the Labor Council the changes had been designed to address a $200 million per annum blow-out in the scheme.

The cuts to access for psychological damage will also exempt the families of homocide victims, victims of sexual assault and victims of domestic assault. The changes are expected to be announced next week.

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Issue 52 contents

Interview: War Stories from the Shakey Isles
After being flat-earthed, New Zealand unions are making a comeback under a new progressive government. Darien Fenton is at the forefront of the resurgence.

Unions: Laying It On the Line
A complex international legal web underpins a long-running South Coast picket.

International: Alive and Kicking
Those representing right wing political forces and strategists for multi-national corporations would be disappointed by the success of the recently concluded Congress of the WFTU in Delhi.

Economics: Fair Trade not Free Trade
The successful MAI and Seattle campaigns have sparked a new debate about the role of the World Trade Organization.

History: The Manchester Movement
Manchester, in Asa Briggs memorable phrase, was the shock city of the early nineteenth century, a small and obscure market town that in a matter of a few years had become a huge city.

Satire: Passing the Buck
Government report tells bosses how to lie and pass the buck: Reith blames Kemp

Review: A Book to Set the Left Right
The Australian Finacial Review's Stephen Long gives his verdict on 'Tales from the new Shop Floor'.

» Conference Showdown Looms Over Stellar

» Olympics Pay Fight Hots Up

» Victims Compo Win for Workers

» Living Wage to Flow Through Fast

» Women Part-Timers Fight ANZ

» Clemo Fights for Wage Justice

» Community Workers Vote to Strike

» New Report: TV Casting Discriminatory

» Call for ACCC Prosecutions Over Japan Coal

» Sydney Support for Korean Workers and Arrested Officials

» Maternity Protection Goes Global

» Ten Years Hard Labor for Shaw

» Sydney CD's Head For Dili

» May One - Ground Zero

» The Soapbox

» The Locker Room

» Trades Hall

» Tool Shed

» Negotiation - Reith Style

» Propaganda or News?

» A Recipe for Modern Unionism

» Disappointed by May Day Coverage

» Politics in the Pub

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