The Corrosive And Destructive Politics Of Identity
by Jim Ball | May 10, 2016 | Blog, Identitiy Politics, Random Notes
On my home page I write in part about how every “..sectional, factional, cultural, interest and identity group can feast at the expense of everyone else…” It is corrosive and divisive. Mark Latham picks up on this theme in his blistering attack on the divisive...
Labor’s Definitions of Savings
by Jim Ball | May 10, 2016 | Blog, Labor Party
We’ve all heard the 19th century poem about the man on the stair that wasn’t there. Yesterday, upon the stair, I met a man who wasn’t there. He wasn’t there again today, I wish, I wish he’d go away… This seems to be the underlying...It’s Morning In Mackellar
What Thinking Australians Are Thinking
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...Labor Or Labor Lite? You Decide
Kelly O’Dwyer The Assistant Treasurer, was asked on Q&A last night about the latest incarnation of Malcolm Turnbull and whether voters were being asked to vote for the 2009 “Labor lite” Malcolm Turnbull who was big on the boilerplate issues of...Search
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