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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?

Media, politics and business tongues are wagging after an intriguing new couple stepped out on the town. But is the partnership of Qantas’ Olivia Wirth and AWU boss Paul Howes a conflict?

Ever since Senator John Faulkner told Paul Howes to “put a sock in it” last Sunday, the frenetic media tart, AWU national secretary and political kingmaker has been surprisingly quiet.

A week in and the Labor Party’s genius war against the Greens has gone exactly as could be predicted, i.e. it’s a total shambles and something of an own goal.

The shambles around the announcement of the first Enterprise Migration Agreement is a good illustration of the incompetent state of Australian political policy-making.

“Productivity” is starting to sound a little “gourmet” — a word that means very different things to different people, writes Jo-anne Schofield, executive director of policy network Catalyst Australia.

Protectionism is alive and well and has strong allies in the public policy arena.

Paul Howes doesn’t place in The Power Index’s top 10 political fixers because the man is all bark and no bite.

Paul Barry and Matthew Knott look back at the main players in the Night of the Long Knives: where are they now?

Can the ALP survive? And if so, what form will it be in? There was huge interest in this topic at the Sydney Writers’ Festival.

There are definitely more pressing and important issues for Australia than gay marriage. But since all that has to be done is take six words out of the Marriage Act, we should just do it and quickly move on, writes Paul Howes, national secretary of the AWU.

So-called “faceless” union man Paul Howes has bold visions for the future of the ALP, but sadly you won’t find them in his new book, writes Greg Jericho at Grog’s Gamut.

The Middle East “quagmire” is largely “the fault of Israel”, according to Paul Howes, national secretary of the Australian Workers Union (AWU).

Is there any finer way of spending an afternoon than sucking on a lobster leg, gargling chardonnay and listening to top-quality political gossip? Margot Saville went to lunch with Richo and the Faceless Man to get the Labor Party gossip.

Like with the appointment of a new CEO at a public company, one of the games going forward with Julia Gillard is to assess and track how much of the policy and personnel associated with Kevin Rudd she changes.

Clive Palmer reckons everyone knows the RSPT will never happen, which is why miners are doing so well at the moment. But he forgot to tell everyone else.

Crikey readers examine our worldle word-play, and discuss home births, nuclear power, super funds, Afghanistan and more.

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.

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.