ITALO - AUSTRALIAN MONTHLY MENSILE ITALO - AUSTRALIANO GIUGNO p co CU cu •S i s D. ! n (£ • c ^ £ o í/=^ VO caco oc Eutanasìa: cresce HowàrdTs End: l'interesse back to the 50s it ' __ ■ ■'Vtifi' V__________________I Multicultural Women Women of Many Cultures WOMEN FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD talking together about CHILDREN Our hope, our despair, our future Women coming together in Adelaide to talk about the experience of coming to live in a new country, having a family, bringing up children in a different country with new customs, growing up in a new land. When: Saturday 22 June 1996 1 -4pm Where: 122 Pirie St Adelaide (firstfioor) Inaam Khizam from the Lebanese Community Lara Palombo from the Italian Community Nhu Can Ly from the Vietnamese community Refreshments Provided Organized by Women's Electoral Lobby SA and the Multicultural Communities Council Funded by the Multicultural and Ethnic Affairs Commission. ENQUIRIES: 08 232 2245 © (si J d @ ï 5 a D ® Le leggi che lavorano Working laws 1 Governo di Howard vuole riscrivere le leggi che regolano he Howard Government wants to rewrite labour laws to il mondo dell’industria per promuovere la competitività, la help competitiveness, productivity and jobs. produttività e i posti di lavoro. Così facendo cerca di 0 O It wants to legislate against bad workers but ignores bad legislare contro i lavoratori incapaci ma ignora i datori di lavoro e bosses and bad management. le amministrazioni incapaci. E’ un modo molto semplicistico di It is a very simplistic view that belongs in the dark ages of vedere le cose, che trova posto soltanto negli anni neri della schia­ slavery. vitù. E su questo punto, la manodopera a basso prezzo o quella non And on that point, cheap or even free labour has never been the pagata non ha mai dato una spinta alla produttività, alla creazione driving force for productivity, jobs and improved living stan­ di nuovi posti di lavoro, né al miglioramento del tenore di vita. Se dards. questo fosse il caso, le regioni del Terzo Mondo avrebbero pro­ If that were the case Third World regions would have boomed. sperato. Il mondo, e il mondo del lavoro in particolare, è più The world, and the world of work in particular, is a more complesso di quanto il Governo Federale suggerisce con la sua complex place than what the Federal Government suggests it is proposta di legislazione sulle relazioni industriali. with its industrial relations proposals. I pericoli dello sfruttamento, dell’insicurezza economica e i rischi The hazards of exploitation, economic insecurity and risks to alla propria vita e alla salute sono ancora caratteristiche proprie life and health are still features of working life; some of these della vita lavorativa, anzi alcuni di questi problemi stanno peggio­ problems are on the increase. rando. Per esempio, in Australia sul posto di lavoro muoiono 10 For example, an average of nearly 10 people are killed at work persone alla settimana. In Italia, ne muoiono 70 alla settimana. Se every week in Australia. In Italy, 70 people are killed each work si considerano anche coloro che muoiono a causa di un infortunio at work If the ones who die from a work-related injury or illness o una malattia sul posto di lavoro, la media settimanale australiana are considered the weekly average is closer to 50 deaths. sale a 50.1 proposti cambiamenti alle leggi del mondo del lavoro Proposed changes to working laws should take into account dovrebbero prendere in considerazione questi problemi, non i- problems not ignore them. gnorarli. Le leggi non devono aumentare il potere già notevole dei They should not increase the considerable power that employ­ datori di lavoro, e rendere schiavi i lavoratori. ers have and enslave employees. Non c’è alcun potere né alcun vantaggio se il singolo lavoratore There is no power and no advantages to the individual being contratta direttamente con il datore di lavoro quando l’individuo able to deal directly with the employer when the individual has non ha nessun dirittoi ed è totalmente dipendente dal lavoro per no rights and is totally dependent on work for his or her ability sopravvivere socialmente ed economicamente. to survive socially and economically. Il lavoro è un’attività sociale e un rapporto economico e le leggi Work is a social activity and economic partnership. The laws dovrebbero riflettere questi aspetti. should reflect that. ITALIA AUSTRALIA ESTERI Quale giustizia? Il caso Priebke p.9 Eutanasia p.4 La Liberia, un'altra Somalia p.30 L'Italia che vogliamo p.lO Una breve storia legale dell'Australia. 2-parte. p.6 Il nuovo governo p.l2 Cronaca di una cattura p.l4 ENGLISH L'Italia per tutti e di tutti p.23 Labor power vs principle p.2 Orizzonti : supplemento di 8 La strage degli "usuberanti”: pagine d'arte e cultura Over to the Minister... p.5 perdere il lavoro a 50 anni p.24 p. 15-22 Italy for and of everyone p.23 The Italian crackdown p.26 Previdenza sociale p.32 Programma SBS p.36 australia / politics Bribery and business are synonymous in some Labor: power vs principle government dealings, according to a former federal minister, Commonwealth Serum Laboratory and dends received by shareholders. who criticises the calibre of airports. ‘Tax avoidance and tax evasion has contemporary Labor MPs “These decisions, and the Parliamen­ resulted in millionaires paying less tax tary Party’s decision to deregulate the than even the middle classes”. banking system and float the dollar, are He said some workers now pay a much decisions which even Liberals like higher rate of tax than the nine cents in ne of the Australian Labor Menzies, Holt, Gorton and even Mal­ the dollar paid by billionaire Kerry Party’s living icons, Clyde colm Fraser would have rejected out of Packer. ® Cameron, was searing in his hand as being too far to the Right! Not “Instead of cracking down on the rich criticism in a recent address on Labor’s even the worst Liberal government we tax cheats, the Government settled for 13-year record in federal government ever had to suffer, did so much to mas­ the crass stupidity of selling the people’s under Prime Ministers Hawke and Keat­ sage corporate greed and the very rich, as public utilities”. ing. was done by the Hawke Government”. Mr Cameron warned the audience that “For several reasons, the Hawke Gov­ In the first 10 years of Bob Hawke’s the polarisation between the rich and the ernment will enter the annals of Labor Government, the wealth of Australia’s rest of the community would lead to so­ history as the one that did more than any richest 200 individuals increased by cial unrest and favour corruption. other to disgrace the proud record of the 30%. “Bribery and corruption in some case Australian Labor Party,” Mr Cameron In the same period real wages for the has had as much to do with the success of said. bottom 10% of workers fell by 5%. big business as good management”. In his Labour Studies Club lecture, at In 1973,12.5% of Australians received Mr Cameron claimed that in some cases Adelaide University on May 2, Mr welfare benefits. By 1993 this figure had bribery has become the way to do busi­ Cameron accused Federal Labor MPs of jumped to 23.1%. ness. betraying the fundamental Labor phi­ Mr Cameron pointed out that since He said that in dealing with the govern­ losophy and policies. “Too many mem­ 1993 the disparity had increased even ment this corruption could take the form bers of the Parliamentary Labor Party further. He attributed this partly to the of: are now bewitched by the right-wing Labor Government’s tax cuts for high - selling government property above its economic rationalists who place powei; income earners and companies and the true value ahead of principle,” Mr Cameron said. tax exemption on fully franked divi­ - buying a govemmen property below He said economic rationalism had pushed Labor parliamentarians into pri­ vatising public enterprises such as Qan- tas, the Commonwealth Bank, The Cameron on Hawke In giving the inaugural “Light on the asked is whether a public enterprise Hill” address at Bathurst in September provided significant functions that a 1985 Bob echoed the view of all true be­ similar private enterprise would not lievers when he implored Labor to provide”. “keep fresh and green the memory, the Bob Hawke is a wordsmith of some example and the experience of the late renown; and sometimes what seemed to Ben Chifley by totally opposing the be an innocent reaffirmation of existing policies of the Liberals to privatise, in policy was found to be open to a later whole, or in part, Australian Airlines, interpretation that supported privatisa­ Qantas, the Commonwealth Bank and tion of Labor’s proudest icon - the Telecom. Commonwealth Bank. By the end of 1987 it had become evi­ So, faced with the false claim that the dent that Bob’s solemn pledge to keep partial sale of the Commonwealth Bank fresh the memory of Ben Chifley was had been properly approved by Confer­ about to be repudiated. ence, Caucus members felt they were On lOSeptember 1987 the print media left with little alternative but to plunge reported that Hawke had told the the dagger into the people’s bank or ACTU: “The question that should be face expulsion. 2 - Nuovo Paese - giugno 1996 its true value - obtaining approval to pollute the Black market forces environment - breaching trade practice laws - winning tax concessions - breaching the law governing takeo­ vers - selling an obsolete property or a white elephant to taxpayers - getting politicians to sell off profitable public enterprises.