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By Kim on July 20, 2010
To get a good handle on how the election is playing, your best best is to watch the first ten minutes or so of any commercial news channel (though Nine and Seven have a bigger footprint than Ten). Tony Abbott [...]
Posted in Elections, federal election 2010 | Tagged ACTU, Eric Abetz, Federal Election 2010, Neil Mitchell, Peter Costello, Tony Abbott, WorkChoices |
By Kim on March 17, 2010
They’re at it again: Members of the Liberal Party have been creating a minor storm about the matter of Indigenous recognition. In statements made to the Adelaide Advertiser yesterday, Opposition Leader Tony Abbott implied that formal recognition of traditional owners [...]
Posted in Culture, Indigenous, Language, Politics, Race | Tagged brendan nelson, closing the gap, Culture Wars, Eric Abetz, false dichotomy, Indigenous recognition, Language, meaning, Peter Dutton, political correctness, Q&A, Qanda, recognition, Rudd government, Stephanie Convery, symbolism, Tony Abbott, traditional owners |
By Mark Bahnisch on March 10, 2010
Writing in Crikey the other day, Eloise Keating suggested that “if Abbott wants to woo women, he should start with wages”: Recent figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics show Australian women earned just 82.5% of the average male rate [...]
Posted in Feminism, Industrial Relations, Policy, Politics, Women | Tagged arbitration, asu, award system, awards, community sector, eloise keating, equal pay, equal pay alliance, Eric Abetz, Fair Work Australia, Feminism, gender equity, house of representatives committee on education and wor, Industrial Relations, Julia Gillard, labour market, making it fair, parental leave, pay equity, social inequality, social policy, statistics, test case, Tony Abbott, unions, Women, work, work value case |
By Mark Bahnisch on December 8, 2009
Tony Abbott is set to announce his new frontbench this morning. All the reports suggest that the winners are the hard Right – including the resurrection of Howard era waxworks Bronwyn Bishop and Kevin Andrews, and the astonishing selection of [...]
Posted in Politics | Tagged Barnaby Joyce, Bronwyn Bishop, Cory Bernardi, Eric Abetz, frontbench, John Howard, Kevin Andrews, reshuffle, shadow cabinet, Sophie Mirabella, Tony Abbott |
By Phil on October 21, 2008
Just a follow up to a previous post. It appears that no matter what the ABC does it just can’t find enough sympathetic Coalition voters to balance a Q&A studio audience and keep Senator Abetz happy. Mr Scott said the [...]
Posted in Film, TV, Video etc, Media | Tagged abc, Eric Abetz, hearings, mark scott, Media, Q&A, Qanda, Senate, Television, Tony Jones, young liberals in their jammies |
By Phil on September 28, 2008
Eric Abetz is at it again. Senior Liberal Eric Abetz believes the ABC TV political talk show Q&A has failed in its attempt to provide a representative cross-section of the community because the audience was overwhelmingly made up of Labor [...]
Posted in Film, TV, Video etc, Media | Tagged abc, bias, Coalition, conspiracy, Eric Abetz, Erica Betz, greens, Labor, Q&A, Qanda, statistics, Tinfoil |
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