From: "Vikki John" <VIKKI-AT-lexsun.law.uts.edu.au>
Date:          Fri, 24 Apr 1998 11:23:11 GMT-1000
Subject: M-NEWS: (Fwd) WHARFIES WIN AGAIN, BUT BATTLE CONTINUES



Radio Australia - World News.

     AUSTRALIA'S MARITIME DISPUTE
     HEADING FOR THE HIGH COURT
     Friday 24 April, 1998 (7:15am AEST)

          The Australian shipping company at the centre of the
          waterfront dispute currently gripping the country, says it is
          now prepared to take its fight with the Maritime Union to
          Australia's High Court.

          This came after the full bench of the Federal Court found
          that 1400 waterside workers sacked by Patrick Stevedores,
          in an operation backed by the Australian government, had
          been unlawfully dismissed.

          The court has ruled that the workers should be allowed to
          return to their jobs later today - but the Patrick company
          says it hopes to obtain a court injunction preventing that,
          pending the appeal.

          As Louise Yaxley reports, Australia's Federal Workplace
          Relations Minister, Peter Reith, also says he won't
          compromise and the legal manoeuvres won't make him less
          determined :


          Mr Reith's fixed on his goal of bringing change to the
          waterfront. He dismisses the Federal Opposition leader
          Kim Beazley's calls for the Government to broker a
          compromise so that the maritime workers can be
          re-employed and the dispute settled." LETS FACE IT. HIS
          IDEA OF COMPROMISE IS TO CAVE IN TO THE MUA
          AND TO ABANDON ANY OBJECTIVES OF FIXING UP
          THE AUST WATERFRONT." But MrBeazley, wants Mr
          Reith removed from his portfolio saying the Prime Minister
          should recognise Mr Reith's making the dispute worse.
          "ALL HE DOES IS POUR OIL ON THE FLAMES." 
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