The local labour movement is becoming increasingly bullish about how its members’ superannuation money is invested. What happens if more unions start putting their money where their mouths are?
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Richard Farmer’s chunky bits: Blinky Bill on Lateline
Bill Shorten must be hoping that this issue of what Prime Minister Julia Gillard knew and did back in the 1990s goes away.
READ MORELatham’s Bolt Watch: ‘He will say and do anything to get at Gillard’
In round two of Bolt Watch, Mark Latham takes on more assertions made by blogger Andrew Bolt over the Julia Gillard AWU story.
READ MOREGillard still has questions to answer
Crikey readers weigh in on the big issues of the day.
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This is what the Right is expert at: smearing
It’s unclear exactly what Julia Gillard is being accused of having done when she worked for Slater and Gordon. But smears of the Prime Minister are part of a long tradition from the Right in Australia.
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Howes wants the magic pudding, OECD says it’s already here
The contrast between Paul Howes’ Press Club address yesterday and the OECD’s overnight forecasts demonstrates the current tension in economic debate. Glenn Dyer and Bernard Keane report.
READ MOREThe car industry’s (not so) merry-go-round
It’s only three years since the car industry was last rescued. Meantime, other parts of manufacturing have got on with the job of lifting productivity.
READ MOREAluminium smelting: the best bang for your fossil-fuel subsidy buck
The aluminium smelting industry is demanding massive compensation under a carbon price - but already benefits from hundreds of millions of dollars in subsidies a year.
READ MOREHowes on being a ‘critical friend of Israel’ and union embrace of boycott
The Middle East “quagmire” is largely “the fault of Israel”, according to Paul Howes, national secretary of the Australian Workers Union (AWU).
READ MORE7:30 Report set for a new look?
In today’s tips: “With The 7.30 Report’s Kerry O’Brien on yet another of his extended vacations, ABC News bosses have begun tinkering with the idea of wholesale change to the program next year.”
READ MOREDick Pratt, Macquarie Bank and Bill Shorten…join the dots
The Sunday program’s Ross Coulthart has been in touch to debunk my story in Monday’s Crikey and stress that the only source of information for his cover-story attack on the Transport Workers Union came from within the union itself – and mostly from serving officials, writes Stephen Mayne.
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