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By Kim on January 6, 2011
As we all slouch back towards work in the new year, a hardy perennial has been dominating the business pages and the Bosses’ Bible, the Australian Financial Review. Spurred on, this time, by the release of 1980 Cabinet papers (resources [...]
Posted in Industrial Relations, Politics | Tagged 1980 cabinet papers, Fair Work Australia, ideology, Industrial Relations, Labour, labour market, propaganda, resources boom, unions, wages breakout, workplace relations |
By Guest Poster on August 2, 2010
During the election campaign, LP will be cross-posting selected items from the Centre for Policy Development’s discussion of policy issues, Thinking Points. Readers may also be interested in the CPD’s collection of policy ideas and priorities for the next term, [...]
Posted in federal election 2010, Industrial Relations, Parenting, Policy | Tagged barbara pocock, CPD, Federal Election 2010, Industrial Relations, Policy, Thinking Points, work, work life balance |
By Kim on July 29, 2010
… Now Robert Gottliebsen at Business Spectator has one. The thrust of this allegation is that Julia Gillard produced a very business friendly draft of the Fair Work Act, and Greg Combet and Kevin Rudd intervened to make it more [...]
Posted in federal election 2010, Industrial Relations | Tagged ACTU, business spectator, fair work act, Federal Election 2010, Greg Combet, Industrial Relations, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, leaks, Robert Gottliebsen, unions |
By Mark Bahnisch on July 21, 2010
One day it would be interesting to research whether Paul Kelly was the first to proclaim the importance of the ‘narrative’ in Australian politics. Certainly, it’s been his leitmotif. And central to his two door-stopping tomes on recent political history [...]
Posted in Environment, federal election 2010, Government, Immigration, Politics, Sociology | Tagged australian settlement, business, Federal Election 2010, ideology, Immigration, Industrial Relations, IR, narrative, neo-liberalism, Paul Kelly, Peter Van Onselen, population, Tony Abbott, workplace relations |
By Mark Bahnisch on May 3, 2010
In Queensland today, we celebrated Labour Day as a public holiday. In the wake of the privatisation imbroglio perpetrated by the Bligh government, expectations were that solidarity between Labor and labour wouldn’t be at the forefront of the Brisbane May [...]
Posted in Activism, Brisbane, Economics, Government, History, Industrial Relations, Masculinity, Policy, Politics, Queensland, Sociology | Tagged ACTU, ALP, Andrew Fraser, Anna Bligh, bionics, Brisbane, Brisbane Times, British Columbia, business, canada, casualisation, class, class politics, corporatisation, corporatism, Henry review, ideology, Industrial Relations, John Quiggin, Kevin Rudd, labor party, Labour Day, labour movement, LHMU, March, masculinism, May Day, Paul Lucas, Peter Beattie, privatisation, QR, queensland government, Queensland Labor, social class, Sociology, super, superannuation, tax, unions, workerism, working class, workplace relations |
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 February 15, 2010
The ACTU has released polling which finds that 53% of respondents believe that Tony Abbott would reintroduce WorkChoices under another name. Abbott’s been addressing some business functions of late, no doubt because he has to build some bridges and mend [...]
Posted in Industrial Relations | Tagged ACTU, business, Industrial Relations, poll, polling, Tony Abbott, WorkChoices |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 13, 2010
One of the debates we should no doubt be having about the spate of violent and racist attacks on Indian students in this country is around the conditions of service work in the less salubrious bits of the service industries [...]
Posted in Australiana, Economics, Education, Industrial Relations, International, Politics, Sociology | Tagged Capitalism, globalisation, health and saftey, Immigration, Indian students, Industrial Relations, international students, night time economy, nurses, racism, service industry, Sociology, structural racism, visa, workers, workplace health and safety, workplace safety, zero harm |
By Mark Bahnisch on November 26, 2009
Let’s sum up a few things about the CPRS/leadership shenanigans: (a) It’s been intriguing to see the focus of political discussion narrow to the Parliamentary dramatics. Journalists – and one suspects, many Liberal MPs – appear to have completely lost [...]
Posted in By-elections, Climate change, Howardia, Media, Politics, Polls | Tagged By-elections, Climate change, commentariat, cprs, ets, Higgins, Higgins by-election, Industrial Relations, journos, Kevin Andrews, leadership spill, Liberal base, liberal leadership, Liberal right, Malcolm Turnbull, Newspoll, Peter Costello, Ryan, spill, Tony Abbott, Wentworth, WorkChoices, workplace relations |
By Mark Bahnisch on September 16, 2009
Malcolm Turnbull has been opposition leader for one year. That anniversary has been marked, among other things, by an impassioned speech in the Coalition party room by his predecessor, Dr Brendan Nelson. Nelson argued against any compromise on emissions trading [...]
Posted in Politics | Tagged AWAs, brendan nelson, Climate change, Coalition, Copenhagen, emissions trading, Industrial Relations, liberal leadership, Liberal Party, Malcolm Turnbull, Policy, Politics, WorkChoices |
Even the devil sometimes speaks true? Rudd, Labor and the 2010 election
By Mark Bahnisch on December 23, 2009
We have it on good authority, that of St Thomas Aquinas, that demons and evil spirits can sometimes speak the truth. Now, I’m not saying that Janet Albrechtsen falls into either of those categories, but for once I was interested [...]
Posted in Climate change, Federal Elections, Government, Health, Howardia, Industrial Relations, Policy, Politics | Tagged Bob Hawke, COAG, commentariat, electoral strategy, Essential Research, Federal Election 2010, health policy, hospitals, Howardia, Industrial Relations, Janet Albrechtsen, John Howard, Kevin Rudd, Peter Dutton, Politics, Polls, reform, Richard Farmer, Rudd government, Thomas Aquinas, Tony Abbott, WorkChoices | 50 Responses