I am Alex White, a progressive campaign strategist, social marketer and policy activist.
If you want an idea of how a Tony Abbott led Liberal Government will treat the most vulnerable people in our community, look no further than the derisory way that Ted Baillieu, Barry O’Farrell and Campbell Newman are treating people with disabilities. You can judge a society by how it treats its most vulnerable citizens; [...]
Mr Dastyari, who described the Greens as “extremists not unlike One Nation”, said Labor must “stop treating them like they are part of our family … Where it is in the Labor Party’s interest to do so, we should consider placing (the Greens) last – just like we did with One Nation,” he said. The Australian reports this weekend, [...]
Ted Baillieu promised at the 2010 Victorian election that he would keep the legislated target of 20% reduction of carbon emissions by 2020 (on 2000 levels) — in fact, the Liberal Party supported this legislation when it came to parliament. Yesterday, Environment Minister Ryan Smith announced that the Victorian government would dump the target. With Victoria [...]
On 7 February 2007, the then-Federal Education, Science and Training Minister, Julie Bishop, announced that ‘like other professions, teachers should be recognised and rewarded on merit.’ This policy announcement, made despite the Federal Government having no legal authority to set pay or conditions on public schools, was based on the pervasive private sector management practice [...]
The climate denialists in the Coalition has a simple message about the carbon price: It’s a tax. Taxes raise prices. Prices on electricity, fuel and other things therefore will go up. What about the alternative? The problem for progressives is that our arguments are nuanced. We don’t necessarily see the world in Manichean absolutes, black [...]