Archive for June 26th, 2013
Some things Labor should do, but won’t
Posted by John, June 26th, 2013 - under Labor Party, Neoliberalism.
Tags: ALP, Australian Labor Party
Comments: 5
First, Labor should, but won’t, abandon its nearly 40-year infatuation with neoliberalism. It should introduce a serious super profits tax on the mining companies, raise the tax rates on those at the top end back to where they were under Malcolm Fraser and end the concessions on capital gains.
Labor should, but won’t, lift restrictions on union rights to strike, scrap the bosses’ ability to lock out workers at will and peg the minimum wage to a decent share of average earnings.