Goss picket at UQ

Goss picket at UQ

By Freya Pinney

BRISBANE — Due to a decline in the effectiveness of the ALP club at the University of Queensland, Premier Wayne Goss will be visiting the St Lucia campus on Wednesday, February 16, as part of a recruiting drive. A picket has been organised to highlight Goss' attacks on education, women, the environment, workers, health services, lesbians and gays, and Aboriginal rights.

In the last four years the ALP state government has attacked public services and implemented a strictly right-wing agenda, focused on big business. The latest attacks include: the sacking of 581 teachers and the closure of some schools; funding cuts to drug rehabilitation and detoxification centres and referral services, including some closures; continual refusal to decriminalise abortion (a 1990 election promise); and the recriminalisation of prostitution.

Goss has rejected a new state school policy of politically accurate language (including non-racist language), attacked single mothers, opposed land rights legislation, publicly condemned the inquiry into the death of Daniel Yock and supported the introduction of police with batons and riot helmets to deal with street offences in the city and Fortitude Valley malls.

The picket is organised by a coalition of the university union, High Society, the Whitlam Institute (ALP left), the International Socialist Organisation, the UQU Women's Area, the UQ Murri Students Association and the radical youth organisation Resistance.

For more information, come to the Resistance Tent on Wednesday, February 16 in the Great Court at UQ or phone Freya on 254 0565.

From GLW issue 131