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; [...]
Opposition Leader Tony Abbott told his MPs yesterday that a Coalition government’s industrial relations policy would “reflect a return of the pendulum back to the middle”. What’s your union’s Abbott strategy? While there’s no certainty that Abbott will win the next election — after all, he is the least popular opposition leader in Australia’s history [...]
The Government should be forced to specifically justify this, not to just sweep it under the carpet and allow it to go through in the appropriations because by convention the Opposition doesn’t oppose the appropriations. I think we do need to take a very, very seriously critical look at this question of the debt ceiling. [...]
Labor is currently passing historic reforms to health laws in Australia that will means-test benefits for people with private health insurance. This is a great improvement as it does away with the Howard-era regressive system of poor people subsidising wealth people’s private health insurance, and introduces a progressive system that excludes high-income earners from receiving [...]
Tony Abbott has used his “direct action” plan as the counterpoint to Labor’s carbon price plan. Apart from the obvious purpose of “direct action” being Abbott’s desire to directly transfer hundreds of millions of dollars of public funds to private hands, his proposal should fail the “common sense” test. Climate change is like a fire [...]