Archive for 'Labor Party'
A racist Labor Party ad for a racist Labor Party policy
Posted by John, May 8th, 2017 - under Jobs, Labor Party, Racism.
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The racist ad is part of Labor’s well worked out and deliberate Trump strategy. The Liberal Party has disguised racism in its turn to ‘Australian’ values; the Labor Party has disguised racism in its lies about Australian jobs.
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Left winger resigns from Labor to set up socialist group
Posted by John, February 7th, 2017 - under Labor Left, Labor Party, Left-wing.
Comments: 3
Mr President, I rise to inform the Senate that this morning I have resigned as a member of the Labor Party to set up a political movement of Australian socialists, a community of working class Australians who will share their unique gifts and talents to chart a democratic and socialist way.
Voting Labor to save the reef?
Posted by John, December 8th, 2016 - under Labor Party, Queensland.
Tags: Adani mine, Australian Labor Party
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This is a Queensland Labor Party ad in the run up to the Queensland State election in 2015, when they were elected. The Party, in government, approved the Adani mine.
The plebiscite is dead: long live equal love!
Posted by John, September 14th, 2016 - under Labor Party, Same-sex marriage.
Tags: Equal love
Comments: 7
Imagine if Labor mobilised hundreds of thousands to take to the streets to win equal love. That is a real plan B, Labor. Lead a mass civil rights campaign for equal marriage. Do it now. Call us out on to the streets to stop business as usual until we win equal love.
Labor promised to fund services, but also backed cuts
Posted by John, July 31st, 2016 - under Labor Party, Solidarity magazine.
Tags: Amy Thomas, Bill Shorten
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Amy Thomas writes in the July edition of Solidarity: “Labor is back”, claimed a triumphant Bill Shorten in his election night speech. But in truth, the result was Labor’s second lowest primary vote since the 1930s. Of an overall 3.71 swing against the Coalition, only 2.27 per cent went to Greens and Labor.
Of course the Liberals won’t privatise Medicare
Posted by John, June 20th, 2016 - under Labor Party, Medicare, Privatisation.
Tags: Health care
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The real threat at the moment to Medicare is not privatisation. It is underfunding. Underfunding is the half way house on the way to privatisation and Labor by its failure to commit to restoring previously agreed $57 billion of funding is a key party to the long term destruction of Medicare.
Labor and fairness
Posted by John, June 14th, 2016 - under Inequality, Labor Party.
Tags: ALP, Australian Labor Party
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A pre-occupation with Triple-A ratings mean Labor’s economic policies are only marginally more considerate of Australia’s rising inequality than those of the Coalition, writes John Passant in Independent Australia. To read the whole article click here. How can there be fairness in an unfair economy?
Could Labor really win the 2016 election?
Posted by John, February 22nd, 2016 - under Labor Party, Liberal National Party, Liberal Party, Malcolm Turnbull.
Tags: ALP, Australian Labor Party, Bill Shorten
Comments: 2
The desire for a better world is engraved on the hearts of workers and that longing gives hope to Labor. They will dissipate that desire for a change away from business as usual politics if they don’t make their arguments in class terms. Bill Shorten is no Bernie Sanders, but he is also not Malcolm Turnbull ether.
Turnbull can smile and pontificate all he wants. Ordinary workers want to see government action that improves their lives and that of their kids. The dilemma for Turnbull is that if he does that he has no room for cutting taxes on business. His shine is wearing off as the class nature of his government becomes clearer to us all.
Lady Cilento Children’s Hospital – what next for the refugee movement?
Posted by John, February 14th, 2016 - under Labor Party, Lady Cilento Hospital, Refugees.
Tags: Asylum seekers
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Given the intransigence of this Australian government on baby Asha and all asylum seekers, Turnbull and Dutton will only be moved by mass action in the streets and industrial action to protect her. That mass action, like all mass movements for justice, must include a debate at least about civil disobedience. Shut down Melbourne to shut down Manus. It must include discussion of workers banning any action that might involve deporting Asha, recognising such action would be ‘illegal’ under current bipartisan industrial laws. The call by the Queensland Council of Unions for people to join the vigil and circulating a roster is especially important in this context. Unions are beginning to get involved. Now our task must be to try and harness the power workers have, to save Asha.
The left and the mainstream media
Posted by John, September 21st, 2015 - under Labor Left, Labor Party, Media, Moanstream media, Rick Kuhn, The Canberra Times.
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Let’s hope your decision to publish Kuhn’s article is a light bulb moment for Fairfax owners and senior managers that there is a big audience for left wing ideas in your newspapers, driven by the desire of millions of Australians for a social democratic country. Who knows, printing more of such articles might actually help address the disastrous decline in the Canberra Times’ readership numbers.