What thinking Australians are thinking…
Bill Shorten complains that the revival of the Australian Building and Construction Commission creates a different set of rules for construction workers to everyone else. Why is he surprised? The CFMEU has always worked to a set of rules different from anyone else.
Mark Awerbuch, Crafers, SA
Such was the Prime Minister’s stated centrism, you could have recently labelled him Malcolm-in-the-middle in this age of sloganeering. But the polls are showing a steady decline in his acceptance because of backflips and thought bubble equivocations.
It is not a projection of strength and conviction. For what does Malcolm Turnbull stand? With Tony Abbott, there was no doubt as to what he stood for. Now the election has been called, is it going to be Malcolm-in-a-muddle versus battling Bill Shorten, now on an upward trajectory? If Turnbull loses there will be many conservatives asking why Abbott was not given the chance of a full term to shake negative polling and stake a claim for re-election.
Ron Sinclair, Bathurst, NSW
Bill Shorten complains that the revival of the Australian Building and Construction Commission creates a different set of rules for construction workers to everyone else. Why is he surprised? The CFMEU has always worked to a set of rules different from anyone else.
Mark Awerbuch, Crafers, SA
It takes a brave politician to tell a significant section of the electorate that his party does not need the votes of that section. This is the message Bill Shorten is sending to Catholics with his stand on the rights of gay couples to the word marriage and to his defence of the sexual indoctrination of young children in the education system through programs such as the deceptively named Safe Schools project.
Frank Pulsford, Aspley, Qld