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  Issue No 55 Official Organ of LaborNet 26 May 2000  

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Silence on the GST


The GST is starting to look like a savage blow to the future living standards of ordinary people. It seems that the Unions have decided to cop it sweet, though. Where is the opposition to this con job of a "tax reform" likely to cost wage earners $50 a week?

The GST is unfair and will impact most damagingly on the poor and the old. Should't there be some Union opposition, even at this late stage?

What good is it to fight for years for a few more bucks and then have it all taken away (as it will be) by the price increases on all the necessary purchases and services?

I'd like to see some discussion about this unfair tax.

Alf Liebhold


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In this issue
Features
*  Interview: The University of Rupert
National Tertiary Education Union president Dr Carolyn Allport on News Corp's move into tertiary education and the Universitas 21 experiment.
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*  International: The Unionist Who Sparked a Coup
Workers Online's Fiji expert Andrew Casey profiles one of the men at the centre of the crisis, detained PM Mahendra Chaudry
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*  Unions: The Call to Action
The Australian Services Union is leading the push into the call centre industry. But winning these new workplaces is a major challenge.
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*  Politics: Workplace Gladiators
Peter Reith as Russell Crowe? That's the image Labor IR spokesman Arch Bevis conjured up in a frecent address to the Industrial Relations Society.
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*  History: How to be a Good Unionist
It's 1917, WWI rages and federal public servants are given these rules on how to dischare their responsibility as members.
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*  Legal: The Price of Solidarity
Intimidation, threats and even murder still await many workers who attempt to organize in a number of countries around the world, says a new ILO report.
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*  Review: Inconvenient History
In may be cold comfort to Republicans, but the vote for Federation was every bit as tempestuous as this collection of articles shows.
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*  Satire: World Bank Caves In
In a victory for Seattle protestors, international monetarists have decreed that global utopia to begin immediately.
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News
»  Fiji Faces International Union Blockade
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»  Workers Return to Dump Reith's Third Wave
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»  Budget Raises More Questions than Answers
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»  Teachers Finally Achieve Satisfaction
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»  FairWear Campaign Targets Uniforms
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»  Rio Tinto Appeals for Industrial Peace
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»  Beer Hike Sparks Worker Concerns
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»  Libs Fail to Block Family Friendly Laws
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»  No Joy For 'Back Door' Pete
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»  Angry Truckies Converge on Border
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»  Unions Dues Test Case Looms
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»  Why Solidarity Messages Mean Something
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»  Radio Free East Timor Rocks
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Columns
»  The Soapbox
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»  Sport
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»  Trades Hall
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»  Tool Shed
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Letters to the editor
»  Neale's Spot On!
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»  Silence on the GST
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