Regurgitating industry propaganda might go down well at the Sydney Institute but it is no substitute for informed debate on nuclear power, writes Jim Green.
Australian Workers Union
Guy Rundle: Rundle: Who ate all the yellowcake?
If you think it’s tough to get an incinerator built these days, trying putting a nuclear waste dump anywhere. Voters wouldn’t allow it, not in their backyards. Nuclear power is the defining struggle, around which a new politics is organised.
$19m the cost of a quiet ALP conference
That was the price of buying off the union campaign to impose protectionism on Government procurement.
Asbestos: The fallacy of ‘risk management’
It’s accepted by scientists around the world that there is no known safe level for asbestos fibres — in fact, not for any carcinogen, writes Yossi Berger.
NSW ALP: Thistlewaite to be general secretary
Thistlewaite’s background is in the trade union bureaucracy, not the ALP’s Sussex Street machine from where previous general secretaries have been recruited, writes Alex Mitchell.
Abjorensen: Forget union dominance, what about big business
The mantra about big bad unions and their officials was hammered again last night by John Howard, but how many representatives of big business are there in the Coalition? asks Norman Abjorensen.
