Can Union Power be Diminished?
Like me, Mick Jagger was once a student at the London School of Economics (not long after I left there). He once wrote “you can’t always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find you get what you need” (I would have said “if you keep trying”). My point here is that there are at last some signs that increasing numbers, even inside the ABC and other leftist media , are accepting that there is a real need to do something about the quasi-monopoly power unions have acquired. But can Tony Abbott recover his polling by increasing his recent attack on the Labor-union connection and identifying the problems with existing workplace relations?
Abbott’s Problems Continue- Gay Marriages-Global Warming
It is difficult to believe that differences of opinion on whether to officially recognise gay marriages, which exist in both major political parties, might result in a change of the leader of the Coalition. The following letter published in today’s Australian captures what seems to me a common sense approach to the issue
Shorten -More Critiques, incl of Abbott’s Responses
Further developments in the Shorten saga appear in the written media but the ABC seems to have “overlooked” them. The main developments... Read More
Shorten’s Reactions
Shorten has reacted to the criticism of his performance at the RC by stating that he looked forward to debating workplace laws... Read More
More Assessments Of Shorten’s RC Performance; Opportunities for Abbott
Assessments of Shorten’s performance at the Royal Commission continue and, in response to a request from AFR, mine is published there today... Read More
Shorten -Pub Test Fails
The Missing Pub Shorten’s second day at the Royal Commission concluded with agreement today from the media that the “pub test” failed.... Read More
Shorten at RC; Newspoll bad for Shorten & Abbott; Nobel Prize Winning Physicist Declares G Warming a “Non-Problem”
Shorten at Royal Commission Media commentary on the first day of Shorten’s appearance at the Royal Commission does not imply corrupt or... Read More
Abbott’s Performance, Border Controls Lift, ABC Digs Bigger Hole, Abbott On Terrorism,Climate Policy, Gt Barrier Reef OK
While the state by state Newspoll for the June quarter (published on Tuesday) showed an improvement in the Coalition’s and Abbott’s polling... Read More
Shorten Still in Serious Trouble
Although yesterday’s Cassidy interview with Shorten on ABC’s Insiders was recognised in The Australian as missing some key points (see “Shorten admits AWU... Read More
Importance of Royal Cn increases – Obama’s Concedes Iran’s Nuke
Union Power & Shorten’s Fate Today’s AFR has published my letter (see below) criticising the “deal” Shorten made when heading the AWU... Read More