If apologies are so in vogue, maybe here’s a chance to apologise to all those living now who have had such a slur made against them ...
If apologies are so in vogue, maybe here’s a chance to apologise to all those living now who have had such a slur made against them ...
Whereas the early phase of Industrial Relations Reform, say through to Waterfront, people could see a set of pre-conditions for those reforms existing, that is, yes our tax system is ageing or yes, our ports are grinding to a halt. There was no such, there was no pre-existing set of opinions or ideas like that with WorkChoices. Why are we doing this?
Mark Textor The Howard Years
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Since the election the Liberals have been wrestling with the classic dilemma of a party that has lost its reason for existence. Hold on to that reason and you make yourself look irrelevant, drop it and make everyone wonder what you are for.
Fair Work Bill 2008 home page including full text of bill and explanatory memoranda here. Read more »
Whereas the early phase of Industrial Relations Reform, say through to Waterfront, people could see a set of pre-conditions for those reforms existing, that is, yes our tax system is ageing or yes, our ports are grinding to a halt. There was no such, there was no pre-existing set of opinions or ideas like that with WorkChoices. Why are we doing this?
Mark Textor The Howard Years
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Picking up on Reserve Bank governor Glenn Stevens’ remarks about “borrowing to invest” and not being afraid of a deficit if there are good policy outcomes to be had, eight prominent economists (including a couple of blogging ones) have written an open letter to Kevin Rudd making suggestions for a further fiscal stimulus under three headings of policy - Superannuation flexibility, Building the nation and Preparing for climate change. Read more »
Some day in the future they might release the secret internal polling that backs the claim made by both sides now that Workchoices was the decisive election winner last year – and which conflicts with all the published polls that showed industrial relations was never anything more than a middling issue in 2007. Read more »
In an effort to sell its gargantuan Work Choices industrial relations package John Howard & Co. spent the better part of $1.6 million on a staged advertising blitz.
This need to misinform inform was excessive to say the least, but for Labor to seemingly swing to the other end of the spectrum is not the answer either. Read more »
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