Tim Lyons

@Picketer

Ex union boss. I do things re organising, labour, tax, finance, democracy, China. Dep Chair of a super fund. Research Fellow email.picketer@gmail.com

Melbourne, Australia
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Joined May 2010
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  1. 5 hours ago

    5:15 AM - 31 Aug 2015 · Details
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  2. 6 hours ago

    4:55 AM - 31 Aug 2015 · Details
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  3. 6 hours ago

    Did Prod Comm watch ? Lesson is reality of work is not found in a model about regulation / elasticity of demand for labor alone.

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  4. 6 hours ago

    True: And forgot get racially abused on PT.

    not really an improvement from the wave of assaults previously.
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  5. 6 hours ago

    idea: we don't let corporations run a racket that systematically exploits vulnerable workers. Just a thought.

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  6. 6 hours ago

    Study In Australia: Huge fees, get stopped for your visa on the street & the only work you can get is a racket.

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  7. 6 hours ago

    Racial dimension important: these students are people who come to Australia looking for a better life - & we allow this

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  8. 6 hours ago

    (Fun History Fact: A lot of the worst AWAs under WorkChoices were templates ones dictated by franchisors )

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  9. 6 hours ago

    Too many franchises end up as investors using their capital to make a big corporation money - at the expense of casual workers.

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  10. 6 hours ago

    We have an abstract debate about "labour market flexibility" - this is what it means in practice

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  11. 8 hours ago

    Remember, listening to Dutton, that there's only 2 women in Cabinet because "merit".

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  12. 8 hours ago

    On Dutton says house prices will go up if stops.......

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  13. 9 hours ago

    (Late capitalism) want to smell like cordite, lamb-chops, whisky & tobacco?

    1:46 AM - 31 Aug 2015 · Details
  14. 11 hours ago

    "the internet is not a dump-truck... it's a series of tubes."

    Dyson Heydon explaining the internet in a 2013 High Court judgment about Google
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  15. 12 hours ago

    Superb from Brandis. No way Heydon eats from the trash-can of ideology.

    George Brandis says is "a man who has no politics, who is entirely free of politics"
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  16. 12 hours ago

    (No. 2 forms part of the Secret Volume of the report obvs.)

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  17. 12 hours ago

    Heydon deals with question of apprehended bias at a Himalayan level of abstraction & divorced from nature of the project he's undertaking.

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  18. 13 hours ago

    Reading it, it seems Dyson Heydon doesn't get: 1. Modernity 3. The semiotics of public spectacle 4. That his commission is 100% politics

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  19. 13 hours ago

    "Only a fool would say that a person unable to use email may be ill-suited to inquire into the modern workplace."

    Jeez, Heydon.
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  20. 13 hours ago

    "Copies of this decision are available, on written request, from the Commonwealth Government Printer, GPO Box......"

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