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TheRedSunBand – New Album A winning vision of Sydney Win a copy of the CD, "The Shiralee" The Review – Page 7 The Review – Page 9 VOLUME ONE NUMBER SIXTY-ONE JUNE’08 CIRCULATION 22,000 ALEXANDRIA BEACONSFIELD CHIPPENDALE DARLINGTON ERSKINEVILLE KINGS CROSS NEWTOWN PADDINGTON REDFERN SURRY HILLS WATERLOO WOOLLOOMOOLOO ZETLAND Anti-homophobia rally closes Gloria Jeans norrie mAy-welby Ali Humayun, locked up in Immigration crowd, pointing out how many countries Community Liaison Officer. This writer his school’s non-discriminatory policies, Detention for over three years and freed still persecute gay people, many with then addressed the crowd with an “I have and exhorted others to do no less. Despite the Rudd Government after a year-long public campaign by the death penalty. Chris Harris, Greens a dream” speech, pointing out how far the Some governments are now moving to promising to remove all forms of anti- CAAH (Community Action Against Councillor of the City of Sydney, spoke dream had come true, and urging all to redress anti-gay discrimination, but the gay discrimination, about 100 people Homophobia). of the Council’s support for the GLBTIQ keep dreaming and working for a more laws are not yet passed, and marriage turned up for the International Day The rally then proceeded down King (Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender/ humane society, free of discrimination remains forbidden, according to both Against Homophobia rally in Newtown Street to the I Have a Dream mural, where Transsexual, Intersex/Intergender, and based on sex, gender, or sexuality. of the old parties (ALP and Liberal) so on Friday May 16. 78-er (from the first Mardi Gras rally Queer/Questioning) community, includ- Finally, Principal Gould of Macquarie rallies like this are important to charge in 1978) Irene Doutney addressed the ing recently reinstating the GLBTIQ Grammar Private School proudly spoke of up energy for change. The rally started outside Gloria Jeans, in response to the company’s support for Mercy Ministries which separates female couples and promotes male control of female bodies. Rather than engage with their critics, Gloria Jeans shut for the night, and activists wondered if they could chase it out of Newtown like they did McDonald's. Karl Hand from the MCC (Metropolitan Community Church) apologised for homophobia perpetrated by the Christian churches, and pointed out that such hatred is not Christian. Greens Senator Kerry Nettle emphasised the importance of equality under the law, including the current taboo territory of marriage. Rachel Evans from Socialist Alliance, reflecting on Rudd’s “honeymoon period”, said, “We’d like a honeymoon of our own!” adding, “We don’t want to mimic marriage, we just want the real thing!” Rachel also told the rally of the release, a mere 30 minutes earlier, of queer refugee Labor power struggle Nicholas McCallum The well-publicised dispute within the NSW Labor Party over plans to sell the state’s power stations has the superficial Christian Carter playing garden games Photo: Ali Blogg appearance of a battle between the party and the unions. Not so, say the rank-and-file members of its inner-city branches who have allied themselves The games people play at the Cross with the greater left. At the Labor State Conference in May a Reem Al-Gharabally Backgammon, Battleship, Scrabble, ice-breaker and a level playing field for upon the games corner while strolling vote of one to seven against was the party’s Connect 4, cards, Snakes and Ladders, meeting new people who get a break through the market and thinks she will response to selling off the state’s power, Stroll behind the market stalls and more. The money raised is donated from their normal routine or relax before become a regular. but Premier Morris Iemma and Treasurer around the El Alamein fountain in to the Rough Edges community centre coming shopping.” “Living in Sydney there are not many Michael Costa didn’t seem to notice, or Kings Cross any fine Saturday and you in Kings Cross. He also says he sees this corner of things like this. It is such a cute idea,” didn’t seem to care. will see a group of tables with people Mr Carter describes his initiative as Kings Cross on Saturday as an oasis from she says. This would have come as no surprise to deep in concentration playing games. “a community model exercise” and it the problems of a hectic society. the small band of concerned Labor voters is based on similar programs located in “Many places where you socialise Mr Carter is looking for volunteers that turned up to protest the privatisation A community initiative started up other cities, like San Francisco which has and meet new people are bars and clubs to help him on Saturday. You can at the office of Member for Heffron Kristina 15-months ago by 26-year-old Public a large homeless population. when you are a bit lubricated by the contact him at: Keneally on May 1. The people were there, Relations Officer Christian Carter has “I wanted to give something back drugs and alcohol. Here you get to meet [email protected] the placards were out, but the office was proved a hit with locals and visitors to the community and we try to get people in their natural state and playing or visit the website at: “closed to the public for the rest of the alike. For a gold coin donation you can the community involvement because games with people tells you a lot about www.gardengames.googlepages.com day”. The irony that it was also May Day choose a game of your choice, pick a it’s about locals helping locals,” Mr the person’s character,” he says. was something continued on page 2 table and play. The choice is wide: Chess, Carter says. “Playing games is like an Hanna Jo, a Potts Point local stumbled 2 The South Sydney Herald – June 2008 PUBLISHER South Sydney Uniting Church Raglan Street, Waterloo News Telephone 0400 008 338 Phone/fax 02 9698 8949 The views expressed in this newspaper are those of the author and the article and are not necessarily the views of the Uniting Church. Lazard Carnegie Wylie. ADVERTISING Australian Manufacturing Worker’s [email protected] 0400 139 710 Union officer and Labor Party member Robyn Fortescue believes that there is MAILING ADDRESS: no need to sell NSW power stations PO Box 2360 Strawberry Hills NSW 2012 as they have provided more than $1.2 billion in dividends in recent years. In LETTERS pure accounting terms there is 25 per Please send letters and emails to: The South Sydney Herald. cent return from the stations that would Email: [email protected] be lost if they passed into private hands. Supply sender name and suburb. The adamant opinion of the government Size: 150 words or less. We may edit for legal or other reasons. is the result of the Treasury Department’s view of comparative advantage and deregulation. “You’ve got a senior treasury official who came out of the electricity industry EDIToRIAL CoMMITTEE who is pushing for privatisation in 1998,” she said, “And you’ve also got Costa who appears to have been captured by the Chicago school of ‘sell anything that is run by the Government.’” Not all of Macquarie Street feels the same way. In an effort to maintain debate on the matter, Greens MLC John Kaye proposed a private member’s bill – ‘No Mandate, No Privatisation’. Two of Labor’s upper-house members, Linda Volts and Managing EditoR Andrew Collis Ian West, found themselves crossing the floor and voting with the Greens, Liberals and the Nationals. It was a first for the Carr-Iemma Government. Photo: Newspix At a Power to the People meeting that immediately proceeded the session, Kaye the notorious collapse of Enron that took described how both Labor MLCs were control of electricity in California and “worked over mercilessly” by fellow Labor power struggle the ongoing problems of black-outs and government members, praising their companies constantly reselling stations fortitude. The chasm that has opened up continued from page 1 Local councils?” in Victoria and South Australia. between the Labor machine at Sussex Co-EDIToR Dorothy McRae-McMahon that no one wanted to acknowledge. Another Labor member, Paul Kregg, With the current level of mismanage- Street and the government members in Inside the State Conference at Darling was proud of the solidarity on the day ment of state-owned facilities, is it Macquarie Street is what spurred Volts Harbour, the upper echelons were stating and the effort that everyone had gone possible that the Premier is simply putting and West to cross the floor. their case, but outside was the picket line to, but expressed his disgust at Iemma the people of NSW first, by dumping part Ian West commented that it was the that spoke for more than 80 per cent of and Costa for trying to steamroll the of a load that has become too much to organisational wing of the party that NSW, calling on the Premier and Costa people of NSW by going against popular bear? Maybe former PM Paul Keating was made the decisions. “My loyalty is to the not to privatise state power. opinion. “They’d destroy the Australian right when he said that a state doesn’t Labor Party and the custodial officers Labor Party member Roy Byrnes Labor Party in NSW,” he said, adding need to burden its balance sheet with who made this decision [not to sell],” he commented that the privatisation of that any possible outcome for the parties ancient power stations.