Why Labor's lawyers, nurses and teachers join blue-collar unions
So how many members of the state ALP caucus are members of unions, but have not worked in the industry sector covered by their union?
So how many members of the state ALP caucus are members of unions, but have not worked in the industry sector covered by their union?
Christmas fast approaching. There, I said it.
Too many of us proudly spend longer at work than at home, assuming that long days guarantee advancement, worshipping the clock as a perverse measure of achievement.
Thieves executed
It's quite apt that the term 'flamethrower' is so often used to describe feminist Clementine Ford.
Parliament is not able to properly hold its own members to account.
The AFL's Sydney teams are going from strength to strength.
The Turnbull government is said to have had its best fortnight yet but its three cited achievements were all capitulations to someone else.
As with so many ACT government deals, the problem is the look of the thing, rather than the thing itself.
Bring it in tight. Those of us who are climate change deniers need to be singing from the same hymn sheet.
In the time that Australia has had four prime ministers, the Labor Party's organisation has had just one leader.
That was the first word of the little bloke that I heard. Gogs. Meaning dogs.
Trump's arrival presages possibly the biggest and most traumatic upheaval to the global power balance since the Second World War.
And so it came to pass that in the Year of our Lord, 1921, the American astronomer Edwin Hubble discovered the galaxies were flying apart. Behold, he said, the universe was expanding. And so the Unbelievers declared that science was capable of explaining everything and that God - if not dead - was surely suffering a terminal illness.
It's a slippery slope, this growing old. I realised it this week when I celebrated a birthday. Oh, all right, 58 since you asked.
Captain Fantastic, the new Viggo Mortensen release, may be the year's best cast and scripted film. It's also the worst named.
Times are tough for narcissists on the public stage – the ascension of The Donald has created so much noise and bedazzlement that you have to work a lot harder to get noticed.
Something strange is going on with the weather. It might be spring, but that hasn't stopped snow falling in the ACT.
Give migrants a break. They'll be speaking lazy Strine with an upward inflection in no time.
There's a reason Australia's policies are applauded by some very unsavory people around the world.
Following the supervision of 120 hours of driving (there are still 100 to go) a license will mean the end of our duty as taxi driver, for him anyway. Curfews will be a thing of the past. So, too, sobriety (I assume), at least when he's not driving.
Ronel Harmatz helped thousands of European and North African Jews reach Palestine.
We found a tiny standing-spot, squished between a wall and a man with an enormous Tontine-pillow arse - yielding yet firm.
The signs are there for all to see. The handsomely government-subsidised aged-care industry model is set on a trajectory of decline.
We're on the cusp of a global care boom and Australia has a lot to offer.
I can think of plenty of reasons to leave the father of your children, but I'm not sure I would ever include being boring among them.
In this era of evidence-based practice, to ignore the evidence on the influence of drug company promotion is culpable.
This industrial dispute carries a warning for many Australians.
The people are driving America's malaise. The same can't be said in Australia.
Trump is causing some couples to face hard truths.