A-Infos (EN) Anarchist Age Weekly Review No. 359

["Philip McCrory" <philmcc@melbpc.org.au>]

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Number 359

19th­ 25th July, 1999

 IN A TIME OF UNIVERSAL DECEIT - TELLING THE TRUTH IS A REVOLUTIONARY ACT -
GEORGE ORWELL


LIABILITY?

The Productivity Commissionıs report on gambling in Australia has unearthed
a raft of interesting statistics.  Australians lose over 11 billion dollars
per year gambling.  The country has over 180,000 poker machines, 20% of the
worlds total.

Although poker machines are tied to clubs in New South Wales, the poker
machine industry in Victoria benefits a few large corporations.  Over
340,000 Australians are described as problem gamblers, their habit affects
the lives of over 1.6 million Australians.

The interesting aspect of the Productivity Commissionıs report was the lack
of comment that was made about the liability of the gambling industry for
the harm that it causes.  Every day cases surface in Courts across the
country that are directly linked to peopleıs gambling addictions.  The
gambling industry and the various state governments continue to skim off
their profits and refuse to accept liability for the personal harm they have
caused.  Although itıs true that nobody forces a person to gamble, the
information thatıs provided about gambling makes it seem that everybody is a
winner.  Odds of success are not displayed and a concentrated effort is made
to encourage people to gamble.

A republican who serves somebody who is drunk is legally liable, a person
who assaults someone is legally liable and a health care professional who is
negligent is also legally liable.  Why isnıt the gambling industry liable
for the misery they cause.  Courts should be able to recover money thatıs
been defrauded by gamblers from the gambling industry.  Centrelink should be
able to claim money from the gambling industry for the support of dependent
of problem gamblers.

It wouldnıt take the industry very long to clean up its act if it knew that
it was legally liable for the damage it caused.  Although nobody is forced
to gamble, any damage that is caused to society by the gambling industry
should be taken out of the profits they make.  It shouldnıt be taken out of
the pockets of tax payers.  Youıd think that a government that is so fond of
bringing up the idea of mutual obligation would pass legislation to ensure
that the gambling industry, not society was liable for the damage it caused.
Unfortunately it seems that the mutual obligation governments are so fond
of, only applies to individuals on social security benefits, not
multi-billion dollar corporations.


MEDIOCRE MAN RETURNS

John Howard's recent success in convincing the Australian Democrats to carry
the G.S.T. over the parliamentary finishing line has earned him legendary
status among Australia's opinion makers.  Flushed with his pedestrian
success in Australia, the pinnacle of his 25 year parliamentary career, he
packed his bags and wandered off to Japan and the United States beating the
free trade drum.

As he flew out of the country I couldn't help compare him to the school boy
who, by winning a race at his school, had won the right to run at the zone
finals.  It's one thing winning a local race, it's another thing mixing it
with the big boys and girls.  His first stop over in Japan was an
unmitigated disaster.  He extolled the virtues of the Australian economic
mirage and urged the Japanese government and business sector to clamber onto
the free trade wagon train.  Flushed with his failure to influence Japanese
foreign policy, he embarked on the next leg of his journey.

He arrived at the epicentre of the free market heartland in the U.S. of A.
at the very moment the United States government introduced tariffs to
protect its lamb industry from Australian Imports.  Everybody in the world,
possibly with the exception of Australia major political parties, knows that
the so-called free trade debate is a debate about opening up the rest of the
world to United States imports.  It's not a debate about so-called "free
trade".

Howard made a few noises about how Australia was bending over backwards to
make the country easy street for foreign capital, hanged around for a few
hours waiting for the great fornicator, Bill Clinton, to welcome him to his
den and then wandered off back to Australia.  A very unimpressive mediocre
performance in anybody's eyes.  Instead of concentrating on the bigger
issues of human rights and independence for East Timor, a subject that
should have been embraced by an Australian Minister, our pedestrian friend
concentrated on telling all and sundry how Australia and Australians had had
their economic pants forcibly yanked down round their ankles (courtesy of
the Coalition's policies) and were now waiting to be shafted by whoever had
a few bucks to spare.  No wonder our little mate was greeted by disdain and
derision by both the United States and the Japanese governments.


VICTORIAN PUBLIC HEALTH CARE NETWORK IMPLODES

One of the first public institutions that was robbed of what little
independence it had in Kennett's Victoria was the public hospital sector.
Independent hospital boards were sacked and government appointed committees
took over their jobs, in 1992, six months after the election of the Kennett
regime.

Since 1992 the state government, aided by their commonwealth colleagues, has
allowed the public health sector to be starved of funds.  Work has been
contracted out to the private sector and some Victorian public hospitals
have been sold to the private sector.  The current round of disputes in
what's left of the Victorian Public Hospital sector can be laid directly at
the feet of the Kennett regime.

The Kennett regime's successful corporatisation of the public hospital
sector has resulted in the creation of an intermediary between hospital
workers and the government.  A new managerial elite has been appointed to
act as a buffer between the state government and hospital workers and their
associations and unions.  Unions no longer negotiate with the government of
the day, they now negotiate with the area network managerial groups.

These groups do not have the power to negotiate any meaningful proposals as
budgets are still controlled by the state government.  Hence the current
impasse in the public health sector network.  Kennett and his cronies want
the public health sector to breakdown.  They have done and continue to do
all they can to support their ideological agenda to privatise the public
health sector.  The difference today is that workers in the public health
sector understand they have nothing to lose and are willing to call their
bluff.  Life in Kennett's land has soured because more people are realising
that the changes the Kennett regime is attempting to implement and has
implemented are totally ideologically driven and cannot and will not improve
the standard of public hospital care.


VICTORIAN POLICE GO FERAL!!

Over two thousand rank and file police met at Dallas Brooks Hall in
Melbourne on Sunday afternoon.  They came together to hear what the
Victorian Police Association had to say about Neil Comrie, the Chief Police
Commissioner of Kennett land.  Victorian police are angry at the new
managerial style that the government is trying to impose on them.

The upper echelons of the Victorian Police Force have become apologists for
the Kennett regime.  They have become too close to a government thatıs keen
to impose change on a dispirited police force.  Victorian police are
disillusioned with a government thatıs attempting to introduce individual
contracts and out-sourcing in the police force.  Under the direction of Neil
Comrie the police force has found that their role is shrinking as more and
more work is contracted out to the private sector.

The number of private security guards has increased by over 300% in the last
six years in Victoria.  Instead of working arms length from government, Neil
Comrie has worked hand in glove with Kennett and his parliamentary
disciples.  Kennett and Comrie donıt acknowledge or understand that there is
any difference between the state and the government of the day.  The no
confidence motion in Neal Comrie and police management is ultimately a no
confidence motion in the Kennett regime.

The Victorian Police Associationıs battle to maintain its members conditions
and protect their autonomy, has potential radical implications for policing
in Victoria.  The state relies on the thin blue line to maintain order.  How
long will rank and file police be willing to wade into picket lines and end
workplace occupation?  Those police that met at Dallas Brooks Hall on Sunday
are beginning to realise that their struggle is no different to the struggle
of working people in Victoria.  A change in police attitudes to workplace
struggles can only help the move to create an egalitarian community.  As
rank and file police became more disillusioned with the government of the
day, chances are that they will leave the police bureaucracy and the Kennett
regime high and dry and refuse to be used to break up, strikes occupations
and demonstrations across the state.  As they say, we live in interesting
times.


DEATH CIRCUS

Portable satellite dishes crowd into the laneways that lead up to the
Kennedyıs family retreat at Marthaıs vineyards.  The Kennedyıs are in the
news again, thousands of trees are turned into newsprint, the radiowaves are
jammed with commentators offering instant analysis of the Kennedy clan.
Television screens are filled with pictures of a forlorn white marquee.

The worldıs media falls over itself in an attempt to bring us up to date
with the Kennedy curse.  Who was John F. Kennedy Jr?  To most Americans heıs
still the three year old who saluted his fatherıs coffin as it was lowered
into the ground.  Although John F. Kennedy Jr was 38 when his single engine
plane crashed into the sea off Marthaıs vineyard, killing his wife, sister
in law and himself, he will be remembered for what he was, not what he did.

You have to ask yourself why so much time and space is devoted to the death
of a man who did so little with his life.  You have to ask yourself why the
Kennedy myth plays such a pivotal role in American culture.  Are Americans
interested in the media induced frenzy surrounding John F. Kennedyıs death?
Is it just another media feeding frenzy or is it much more.  So J.F. Kennedy
Jr, "his wife and sister in law" died in a light plane crash.  People die
every day in light plane crashes.  Why are those deaths so important?  Why
is so much newspaper space and radio and television time devoted to somebody
because of what he was, not what he did?

Some commentators are trying to equate the death of J.F. Kennedy Jr. with
the death of Princess Di.  Newspaper articles scream about the role of the
Kennedy Royal family.  I donıt believe that most Americans are that
interested in what happened to John F. Kennedy Jr. or the comings and goings
of the Kennedyıs.  They may be interested in the spectacle,  but they
havenıt much time for the Kennedy clan.  Itıs in the American mediaıs best
interests to run with the Kennedy story.  The rags to riches story of the
Kennedy clan and the personal tragedies that have befallen them are the
stuff that myths and legends are made of, no wonder the U.S. media is so
interested in the Kennedy story.  As long as the media pedals the Kennedy
myth, thereıs little chance that the United States people will want to
examine the short comings of life in Godıs own country.


ANARCHIST QUESTION & ANSWER
Q. Are all anarchists pacifists?

A. No, a few are, most arenıt.  All the word anarchy means is without
rulers, nothing more, nothing less.  The problem facing anarchist activists
is how do you create a world without rulers.  Do you go up to those with
power and ask them to give up that power?  If you do go up to them and ask
them to share that power, do you turn the other cheek when they unleash the
dogs of war on you?
Although all violent activity is ultimately wasted activity, sometimes
people are driven to violence to protect themselves and the gains they have
made.  Every social gain that has been made in human history has occurred
because people have struggled to achieve that gain.  How are strikers or
demonstrators expected to act if violence is used to break up their
activities?  How are people who are kept in their place by violence expected
to act? Do they continue to turn the other cheek, or do they take steps to
defend themselves.
We all live in violent societies, some of us have been subjected to
individual violence, some of us havenıt.  The state holds a monopoly on
violence.  Do we allow the state to exert that authority every time its
power is challenged, or do we dismantle the state so no one person has
access to the power that the state apparatus has?  Anarchists arenıt so
stupid as to believe that you can blow up a social relationship, or you can
create egalitarian change through terror.  They understand that in the
struggle to create radical egalitarian change you may take two steps forward
one day while on another day you take three steps backwards.  Anarchists
know that every time that they have succeeded in creating a radical
egalitarian community or their efforts have successfully challenged those in
power, that violence has been directed at them and their activities.  In
such situations most anarchists believe that they need to take steps to
protect themselves and the practical gains they have made from the violence
that is directed at individuals and groups that attempt to redistribute
power and wealth.


ACTION BOX - "BRAIN STORMING"

If youıre involved in an anarchist group, you soon realise that change can
be hard work.  Itıs very easy in small groups to do things the same way,
over and over again because theyıve always been done that way.  The pressure
to do something, anything can force people in small groups into a
strategical rut.  After a while participation in the groups activities
becomes just another obligation.  If you feel the group youıre involved in
is getting nowhere and you find yourself working in a group that seems to be
going around in circles itıs time to stop and reassess the situation.
Major problems always seem to occur when a small group reassesses its
activities.  Individuals in small groups invest so much time and energy and
effort in the group they feel they are under personal attack when an
activity they have initiated is under review.  A good way to overcome the
personal tension that change causes in a small group, is to institute a
"Brain Storming" session.  Every three or four months a meeting should be
held that assesses all current activities and discuss the possibility of new
strategies.
If these meetings become a regular feature of the groups activities,
criticisms of specific projects will not be taken so personally by those who
are involved in those projects.  A periodic review of a groups activities
allows individuals within the group to raise objections to current
activities and float new initiatives and projects.
Brain storming sessions allows everybody within the group to participate in
strategical and practical discussions about the best way to approach
particular problems.  It provides the space for people to raise questions
without directing criticism at a particular individual or a sub-group within
the group.  Regular brain storming sessions provides that safety valve that
individuals in small groups need so that the group survives and prospers.


AUSTRALIAN RADICAL AND ANARCHIST HISTORY
EARLY FEDERAL TRADE UNIONS

Although the six Australian colonies did not federate till the 1st of
January 1901, Trade Unions established national organisations from 1875
onwards.  Before 1875 similar unions in the different colonies assisted each
other financially and practically during strikes.  Strikes in one colony
were advertised in other colonies to alert interstate workers of "black
sites".
One of the first Federal Unions formed was the Australian Typographical
Association.  It was formed in 1880 out of unions that were established in
South Australia, Victoria and Tasmania.  Within a few years the
Typographical Unions in the other colonies joined this Federal Union.  The
Plasterers, Progressive Society of Carpenters and Joiners and Seamen soon
formed Federal Unions.
Some of the early unions were extensions of the British Unions and could be
described as International Unions.  In 1891 the Amalgamated Society of
Carpenters and Joiners had branches in Britain, Australia, the United
States, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa and Ireland.  Different branches
of the Union accepted each other members on production of a clearance card.
They assisted each other financially during strikes and kept Federal as well
as International Black Lists of workers who had scabbed on fellow workers.
Itıs no exaggeration to say that the push for Federation in Australia and
the successful referendum that was held in 1900 to establish Australia, was
in part due to the fact that workers who belonged to Federal workplace
associations and unions understood the practical benefits of Federation.
Those unions and associations who decided to form Federal organisations did
so because they realised that the only way to battle capital at the local,
national and international level was by forming Federal structures.
Source of material for article The Bitter Fight by Jee Harris University of
Queensland Press 1970 ISBN 0 7022 0613 Y.

BOOK REVIEW
INSIDE BLACK AUSTRALIA,
An Anthology of Aboriginal Poetry,
Edited by Kevin Gilbert 1988, Penguin Books, ISBN 0 14011126 3

Kevin Gilbert died in the early 1990ıs of lung cancer.  He was born in the
small country town of Condobolin in New South Wales in 1933.  Orphaned when
he was 7 years old, he lived in fringe settlements and Aboriginal reserves
until 1957 when he was sentence to life imprisonment for murdering his wife.
He was released in 1971 at the very moment a new generation of indigenous
Australians had begun taking direct action to highlight the sins of the past
and reclaim the future.
Inside Black Australia was a labour of love.  Between 1978 and 1988 Kevin
Glibert was involved in protest activity, wrote extensively, writing the
first Aboriginal play, the Cherry Pickers and became involved with an
extensive network of radical indigenous activists.
In Inside Black Australia he has brought together forty indigenous poets
ranging from household names Oodgeroo Noonuccal (Kath Walker), Ernie Dingo,
Jack Davies to indigenous poets who are well known in their communities but
unrecognised in the wider community.
After a lively introduction written by Kevin Gilbert, the poets spring to
life.  Each individual body of poetry is preceded by a synopsis of the poets
life.  Collectively the poems open up a window on Australiaıs shunned and
forgotten people.  They explore the range of human emotions, plunge the
reader into a sea of despair and then drag them to the surface to look at
the moon and the stars.
The lives of these forty indigenous poets range from that of Robert Walker,
an Aboriginal man who died in Fremantle prison in 1985 at the age of 25,
probably as a consequence of a severe beating, at the hands of prison staff,
to the Lajamanu Poets, Penny Rose Napalijarri, Rhonda Samuel Napurrurla,
Irene James Napurruria, Julie Watson Nungarrayi, Valerie Patterson
Napanangka and Jennie Hargraces Nampijinpa, women from Lajamanu in the
Northern Territory.
Although much indigenous literature has been published since 1988, Inside
Black Australia is still one of the more raw and striking poetry anthologies
produced in this country.  Itıs well worth a few hours of anybodies time.
Wanna Be White
My man took off yesterday
with a waagin*
He left me and the kids
To be something in this world
said he sick of being
Black, poor and laughed at
Said he wanted to be white
Have better clothes,
a flash car and eat fancy
He said me and the kids
Would give him a bad name
Because we are black too
So he left with a waagin*
*Waagin: East Coast word for Œwhite womanı. Derived from Œwhite ginı.
Charmain Papertalk-Green.


PERSONAL OBSERVATION

Ambulance in the street, lights flashing, no sirens, parked outside the old
peopleıs house.  They were in their eighties, lived in the same house for
decades.  They walked everywhere, occasionally youıd see them struggle onto
a bus.  She was bent double, thin as a rake, wild look in her eyes.  Her
mind floated between the past and the present.  As the years rolled on it
became trapped in the past.  She knew which route to take to the shop, but
didnıt know what she wanted and how to get back home.  Occasionally sheıd
sneak out of her little home oblivious of the cars and anyone else, head
down, determined to keep on walking until she reached her destination.  A
few minutes later heıd appear from the side of the house, a lanky wisp of a
man, lines etched on his face, his body stuffed into a crumpled shirt and
pants, his feet swimming in shoes that were far too big for him.  He scanned
the street, turned left and began the pilgrimage to find her.  Every day
they left the house two to three times they came back with a plastic bag of
groceries, normally they came back empty handed.  He walked with her until
she was exhausted and then gently steered her home.
Apart from an old man in a battered old car nobody else visited them.
Although they were intensely private people, who kept to themselves the
neighbours kept an eye on them.  They came to the yearly Christmas party at
the end of the street.  She didnıt remember anybody, he kept by her side and
spoke to whoever spoke to him.  Everyone knew they were living on borrowed
time, age had robbed them of their vitality, destroyed their bodies and was
now feeding on what was left of their brains.
The ambulance men came out of the house, pushing a stretcher, she followed
it to the doors of the ambulance.  His feet protruded from one end of the
stretcher, his head lolled to one side of the other end.  The ambulance
speed off, she returned inside.  The old man in the battered car came that
afternoon, he took her away, since then a solitary light has shone in the
bedroom window.
Then days later the old man in the battered car came round, we talked.  He
was her brother, she didnıt recognise him any more, she was in a nursing
home, her husband lay in a public hospital bed.  Heıd suffered a stroke, was
expected to survive, but wouldnıt walk again.  If he was lucky heıd possibly
join his wife in the same nursing home.  They couldnıt come home, the love
story had reached its climax.  They had no children or other relatives, heıd
come from Canada when he was five or six.  They had no friends they had
drifted away as senile dementia staked its claim.  Theyıd lived together in
the same house for over sixty years, until the ravages of the ageing process
finally drove them apart.


STOP PRESS - MERCENARY KING OF THE COMMERCIAL AIRWAYS

Payola was the biggest scandal of commercial radio in the 1950ıs.  You paid
the disc jockey for privilege of having your record aired and before you
knew it wham bang thank you maıam you were a star.  Commercial radio hacks
across the country have been raking in the dough while they mouth off
commercial radio and television for decades.  the mediaıs strength lies in
its ability to set the agenda.  Editorial groups across the nation decide
what is news and what isnıt news.  Stories that donıt fit their world view
just donıt appear.
John Laws and Alan Jonesıs sins are that they have entered into secret
agreements with commercial sponsors to massage the news to fit their
sponsors view of the world.  Those people who listen to Laws and Jones, have
for years innocently believed that what they were hearing were the heart
felt opinions of the media gurus.  Laws has run into his current
difficulties because of the monumental greed of the man and the
organisations that live off the Laws product.  Not content with multi
million dollar retainer from 2UE, not content with lucrative agreements with
legitimate sponsers, he had to go that one step further and cheat on his
listeners and the commercial radio station he worked for.
Whatıs disgusting about this whole business, is not that Laws has been
exposed as a verbal mercenary whose opinions can be bought by the highest
bidder, but that this fiasco has been going on for decades.  Good second
rung corporate citizens like the banks and the car manufacturing sector have
been lining up to fill the pockets of these verbal mercenaries.
While Laws tries to save what little credibility he has left, the major
players in the corporate game in Australia the Murdochıs, Packers and Stokes
continue to beam, broadcast and publish informal that reinforces their power
and the status quo.  Laws ultimate crime is not that he is an airwaves
mercenary his ultimate crime is that has not been able to accumulate the
capital to buy and run his own media empire.  If he had that power, I can
guarantee you that nobody would be asking awkward questions about his
clandestine commercial arrangements.

JOSEPH TOSCANO (Libertarian Workers for a Self-Managed Society).



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