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Archive | March, 2009

Republicans struggling, near bottom

by admin on 06. Mar, 2009 in Blog, Opinion, Politics

I have previously written that the US Republicans are cannibalising themselves, that they are struggling to find a leader, and that they have no clear strategy for combating Obama and the Democrat machine. Now, with the Democrats hammering the Republicans over Rush Limbaugh, some Republican representatives are acknowledging that they nearly as low as they [...]

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QLD Liberal National Party plagiarise

by admin on 05. Mar, 2009 in Blog, Campaigning, Elections

Unfortunately, the main stream media, and even large blogs following the Queensland Election have not covered this scandal. The LNP – the merged Liberal and National Parties in Queensland – have been caught out in a revolting deception and plagiarism case. As you can see, the LNP has copied wholesale the ACTU’s Your Rights At [...]

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Corporate welfare should come with strings

by admin on 05. Mar, 2009 in Blog, Industrial Relations, Opinion

Businesses receiving government corporate welfare should be required to follow industrial relations and OHS laws, and should put caps on executive and board payouts. There is a clear national interest. Governments (state and Federal) gives tax concessions and other support to many different kinds of business, in order to create jobs and ensure economic growth. [...]

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Willful ignorance or straw man

by admin on 02. Mar, 2009 in Blog, Economics, Opinion

Alex Robson from Concept Economics has not bothered to read the Australia Institute paper into the CPRS emissions floor (pdf link). Amazingly, his uninformed and un-researched tirade against environmentalists was published in The Australian today. Mr Robson writes: Clearly, if the number of permits in circulation could never fall, then the Australia Institute view would [...]

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Sharan Burrow on the Global Financial Crisis

by admin on 02. Mar, 2009 in Blog

Sharan Burrow is the president of the ACTU, and recently talked at a forum at Trades Hall with Senator Kim Carr on the global financial crisis. This video shows her talking about the GFC at the International Trade Union Confederation. Union Views: Sharan Burrow, ITUC President (ACTU Australia) from ITUC on Vimeo.

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Joe Trippi on Online Campaigning

by admin on 02. Mar, 2009 in Blog, Campaigning

Joe Trippi is widely regarded as the “inventor of online campaigning”. As campaign manager for Howard Dean, and author of “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised“, he is visiting Australia and was at Melbourne University tonight. His talk, about the importance of social networks and interactive campaignings, especially during US Presidential elections, focused on the [...]

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Doug Cameron on Parliamentary Lobbying

by admin on 02. Mar, 2009 in Blog

An insightful video of Senator Doug Cameron on lobbying Parliament in Australia. Doug gave this talk at a forum organised by the NTEU Victorian Division at the end of February. He kindly agreed to talk to a camera afterwards. Parliamentary Lobbying – Lessons from the other side – with Senator Doug Cameron from NTEU Victoria [...]

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