Unions and union members rightly lobby their local representatives and government Ministers all the time. Not only are unions the largest, oldest social movement on earth, but in Australia they make up the country’s largest voluntary representative associations.
While imagining political lobbying may evoke suited professionals, big business and slick CEOs, it is perfectly legitimate for [...]
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Happy Women’s Day
Today is International Women’s Day:
International Women’s Day (8 March) is a global day celebrating the economic, political and social achievements of women past, present and future. In some places like China, Russia, Vietnam and Bulgaria, IWD is a national holiday. The first IWD was run in [...]
The #Nocleanfeed campaign, DoS and political nous
The #Nocleanfeed (aka, #OpenInternet) movement won’t succeed in blocking the Australian Government’s filter because its leadership are captured by the dead-end Democrats and fringe libertarians with little political campaigning experience. This capture means that unfortunately the movement is receiving ill-informed political counsel from serial Democrat losers like apparent drug-taker Kathryn Crosby and Geordie Guy.
(Disclosure: I [...]
Tea Party warning
For my Project 52 post this week, I thought I’d quickly comment on Karl Rove’s recent article in the Wall Street Journal.
Karl Rove writes that the conservative, anti-Obama Tea Party movement needs to avoid being co-opted by the Republicans. They strength, he writes, is their decentralisation and their ability to “hold the feet of politicians [...]
Alan Kohler shows he doesn’t know about politics
Alan Kohler, of Business Spectator fame, wrote yesterday in Crikey:
Against all expectations, Tony Abbott and Greg Hunt have actually come up with a clever climate change policy, and certainly one that will change the debate in Australia.
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd will now have to quickly do a deal with the Greens to get a government [...]
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