The Crosby Textor obsession with union leaders in the front row of a future Rudd Cabinet is a joke. It’s desperate. It will barely pull a vote back. I hope Textor is not charging for that advice, writes Adam Kilgour.
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Comrie-Thomson: racing this time
Six weeks of the Reptiles waiting for a gaffe, a slip, a contradiction, a dummy-spit. No more “feeding the chooks” with selected leaks. Now is the chance to make a feather duster out of a rooster and leak from a great height, writes Paul Comrie-Thomson.
WA business doesn’t fear all unions, just one in particluar
To the west for business and pleasure – and confirmation that business’ fear of Kevin Rudd’s industrial relations changes is real and focussed, a factor in the Ruddster’s act not playing quite so powerfully in WA.
The Rudd cabinet: an unnatural union
Where do people get the idea that a Rudd Government might be well-disposed to the views of the trade union movement? This list is from a document now doing the rounds of teh interwebs:
A Green preference vote to the Liberal Party?
Since becoming an Australian citizen in 1996 I have exercised my right to vote ticking either the Green or Labor boxes and preferencing accordingly. Never did I give the Liberal candidates a second thought, nor imagine that I ever would. Now, though, with Rudd’s extremely regressive forest policy, this looks to be the year that the Liberal team gets preferenced ahead of Labor.
Rudd’s forest policy gives Coalition its first big break
It would be hard to dream up a more ham-fisted strategy than Rudd’s decision to spit in the eye of Australians who want to protect the biodiverse carbon sinks of Tasmania’s old growth forests, writes Green Senator Christine Milne.
Australia’s funniest workplace videos … now on u-nion tube
Last week it was WA CFMEU assistant secretary Joe McDonald. Who will be the next union heavy to get caught on candid camera?
Rudd: zero tolerance – except in the press office
Kevin Rudd has drawn “a line in the sand” over offensive behaviour by union officials. If he’s consistent, he should be sacking the standover merchants in his media office.
Rudd attacks navy over Iran language disgrace
News today that Opposition Leader Kevin Rudd has demanded disciplinary action be taken against several Australian sailors who apparently used language worthy of an old-school union delegate to ward off attack by the Iranian military.
Tips and rumours
This report came (to me from a reliable source) allegedly from within the SMH. It suggests that on the day Howard announces the election, an SMH reporter will publish a story about Rudd which, it is claimed, would blow him out of the water. Apparently, the Rudd team is using every means to block it, […]
