Issue No 96 | 18 May 2001 | |
Letters to the EditorNew Editorial Guidelines
Do your new editorial principles mean that I am cannot write a letter to the editor complaining about my employer? Your third principle states: - only affiliates to criticize Labor Governments. As a teacher working in the public eduction system in this state my employer is the Labor Government. Does this mean that I cannot criticise them? Can I not criticise them for their treatment of employees and our lousy working condition? Can I not criticise them for their failure to maintain and support our public education system? Not only have they done nothing to restore the damage done by previous liberal governments they seem determined to destroy what is still one of the world's finest education systems. Minister Aquilina who, in the hope of diverting attention from school closures in the inner city, used confidential information about a student to create a media beatup, has just returned from the UK where he has been learning from the Blair government how to further privatise our eduction system. Meanwhile Premier Carr is happy to publicly support Trinity Grammar, when has he offered his support to any public school being crucified in the media? If you are to gag me from criticising my employer I might as well go back to the Daily Telegraph. Jennifer Killen Ed's reply: No, they do not preclude the publication of your letter. A lot of people have interpreted last week's editorial as representing a demunition of our independence. The opposite is true. The aim was to state publicly our editorial policy to give us strength in the face of certain elements that would see us become Pravda ....
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Interview: The Enabler On the eve of the release of his latest book, Beazley�s brain on the back-bench, Mark Latham, talks about putting the social back into socialism. Unions: Flogged To Death One third of Australian workers now work in conditions that would be deemed illegal in Europe. While in our workplaces so much is being done by so few with so little the Howard Government leans on its shovel reports Noel Hester. Corporate: Nike's Six Broken Promises A new international report on the labour practices at Nike have placed their stated commitment to ethical employment under the microscope. International: Jagath at the Solidarity Cafe When the brave workers at the Shangri-La Hotel in Jakarta marched on May Day, a Sydney unionist was by their side. Education: The Battle for Free Thought The recent sacking of Dr Ted Steele at the University of Wollongong has focused attention on the need for vigilant defence of employment rights and academic freedom. History: Federation and Labour The labour movement�s role in the 1897 Federal Convention and the subsequent referenda process has been largely forgotten. Satire: Addict Stops Using Smack After Talk With Parents A 21-year-old heroin addict has agreed to give up his habit after his parents told him that using drugs was wrong. Review: Rouge or Red? Mark Hebblewhite argues that the new Baz Luhrmann blockbuster isn't without its class analysis.
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