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By Mark Bahnisch on May 18, 2010
Apropos of the AWU’s Resources Super Profits Tax ad [reproduced here on LP], Peter Van Onselen has written a piece in today’s Australian warning Paul Howes of the dire consequences should he engage in that cardinal sin, appearing to advocate [...]
Posted in Advertising, History, Language, Media, Politics | Tagged ACTU, Advertising, Bill Kelty, class politics, class warfare, labour movement, Media, mining industry, Paul Howes, Peter Van Onselen, political discourse, political rhetoric, reform, rspt, unions |
By Kim on May 5, 2010
Two articles in the two Fairfax metropolitan papers tell two very different stories about Labor’s backflip/clear the decks strategy. In the SMH, Lenore Taylor has been talking to Labor strategists. The target voters, it’s argued, are those in outer suburban [...]
Posted in Activism, Climate change, Federal Elections, Politics | Tagged ALP, backflips, Climate change, cprs, ets, Federal Election 2010, Guy Beres, ideology, Kevin Rudd, Labor, Labor strategists, labour movement, modernisation, Polls, public opinion, shaun carney, trust, vision |
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 September 28, 2009
As a sequel to my post on The Australian‘s series on the left, where I highlighted Guy Rundle’s take, I’m reproducing from today’s Crikey (with permission) his longer sequel to his take beneath the fold. Meantime, the Oz series meanders [...]
Posted in Activism, Culture, Economics, History, International, Media, Policy, Politics, Sociology | Tagged ALP, Australian Greens, BLF, Capitalism, CPA, Crikey, Culture, David Hetherington, GFC, global economy, global financial crisis, globalisation, globalism, greens, Guy Rundle, History, ideology, Labor, Labor Left, labour movement, Labour parties, left, liberalism, Maoism, Marx, McKenzie Wark, Meidner plan, neo-liberalism, neocons, neoconservatism, new left, Per Capita, political culture, robert manne, social democracy, social markets, social movements, Sociology, Soviet union, Sraffa, sweden, The Australian, the left, Tony Blair, unions |
By Mark Bahnisch on September 24, 2008
…45% of Australians think so, according to this fortnight’s Essential Research poll. As a bit of an addendum to my earlier post about Julia Gillard’s speech last week to the National Press Club on the detail of the Forward with [...]
Posted in Industrial Relations, Polls | Tagged ACTU, ALP, brendan nelson, Essential Research, Industrial Relations, industrial relations policy, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, Labor, labour movement, liberal leadership, Liberal Party, Malcolm Turnbull, political analysis, polling, Polls, psephology, Rudd government, union movement, WorkChoices, workplace relations |
By Mark Bahnisch on September 18, 2008
Earlier in the year, writing in On Line Opinion, I thought that Labor’s “Forward With Fairness” industrial relations policy was best interpreted as an attempt to entrench a new workplace settlement acceptable to all parties – and I still think [...]
Posted in Industrial Relations | Tagged ACTU, ALP, collective bargaining, employment rights, Federal election 2007, Forward with fairness, Industrial Relations, industrial relations policy, ir legislation, Jeff Lawrence, Julia Gillard, Julie Bishop, Kevin Rudd, Labor, labour movement, National Press Club address, Rachel Siewert, Rudd government, Senate, Sharan Burrow, Telstra, The Greens, unfair dismissal, unions, workplace relations |
By Mark Bahnisch on September 10, 2008
With all the attention on the role of Brendon Grylls and the Nationals as the kingmakers in the WA election result, the improvement in the Greens’ vote has slipped under the radar somewhat. Counting subsequent to election night has seen [...]
Posted in Activism, Federal Elections, State/Territory Elections | Tagged ALP, Anthony Albanese, Australian Greens, Bob Brown, Brendon Grylls, comparative electoral systems, comparative politics, electoral systems, GetUp!, Kevin Rudd, Labor, labour movement, Lib Dems, Lindsay Tanner, MMP, Nationals, New Zealand, nick xenophon, proportional representation, Steve Fielding, Tanya Plibersek, Tony Blair, trade union movement, WA election 2008, WA election results |
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