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March 14th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Fallen workers will be honoured with a national memorial in the nation’s capital to be built in the next year.
Architects Johnson Pilton Walker was chosen from a field of 26 for the winning design of the National Workers Memorial, which will be built in Canberra ahead of the city’s centenary in March next year.
It was important to recognise the contribution Australian workers had made in building the nation, Workplace Relations Minister Bill Shorten said.
“The memorial will honour and pay tribute to all working Australians who have died as a result of work-related accidents, incidents and disease,” Mr Shorten said in a statement on Wednesday.
“It will also provide an important focal point for the national commemoration of Workers’ Memorial Day, recognised internationally on 28 April each year.”
The memorial’s design was functional, featuring a series of tall, slender columns representing the contributions and sacrifice of workers from each state and territory in Australia, Mr Shorten said.
“A level plaza and low seating wall allows for commemorative ceremonies, as well as a place for quiet reflection.”
NSW Senator Doug Cameron, who chairs the memorial’s committee, said it would serve as a poignant reminder of the importance of work health and safety and the need for a determined and continued effort by all to prevent work-related accidents and disease.
Mr Shorten told parliament in a ministerial statement the average age of workers who die is 37.
“Imagine how many Australian champions or good parents, fathers, mothers, sons, daughters, brothers, sisters, friends and neighbours we have lost prematurely,” he said.
Australians had come to know Brant Webb and Todd Russell who emerged from the Beaconsfield mine in Tasmania after being trapped for two weeks underground.
“But one miner did not make it out of that mine alive, Larry Knight,” said Mr Shorten, who was a union leader involved in the rescue at the time.
“I saw how Larry’s family felt. I can imagine how they are still feeling.”
The latest Safe Work Australia report released by the government showed 216 Australians died at work in 2009-10, with the cost of work-related injury, illness and disease assessed at more than $60 billion.
“The human cost, the emotional cost, is immeasurable,” Mr Shorten said.
“So I believe it is time. It is time this parliament recognised our failings in workplace safety.”
While most workplace deaths involved men, Mr Shorten said it is timely to ask how many women at work suffer for decades in extremely poor health and safety standards?
“… from endemic stress, fatigue and deliberate and debilitating bullying?
“This just isn’t acceptable. And modern Australia should declare it so.”
Opposition employment participation spokeswoman Sussan (Sussan) Ley agreed MPs and senators should be informed of workplace fatalities and obliged to consider policy decisions.
“I agree with the suggestion parliament receives regular reports and they should be on the reading list,” she told parliament.
The memorial will rest on the northern shores of Canberra’s Lake Burley Griffin, in an area designated for non-military commemoration.
It is expected to be completed by March 2013 ahead of the national capital’s centenary celebrations.
The federal government has contributed $3 million for construction of the memorial.
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