Protectionism is alive and well and has strong allies in the public policy arena.
Paul Howes
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Forget game theory, Abbott’s a boxer
Crikey readers have their say.
Coup anniversary: where are they now?
Paul Barry and Matthew Knott look back at the main players in the Night of the Long Knives: where are they now?
Pollies grumble at writers’ fest: ‘good govt and ALP are strangers’
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.
Media briefs: Doggone, Fairfax suits up … Howes’ mixed message
Fairfax Media’s ailing band of Melbourne suburban mastheads has a new mascot — Wilbur Weekly — a hulking promotional dog that attends community events to spruik the stable’s offerings and hand out stickers to children. Plus, other media news tid bits.
Howes: If you don’t like gay marriage, don’t marry a gay person
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.
Grog: Could the real Paul Howes please stand up?
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.
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Pure Poison Podcast #2
In this week’s Pure Poison Podcast, Jeremy and Dave discuss Paul Howes whining about trolls, America’s-man-shooting-TV-over-Bristol-Palin-dancing incident, “anonymous” anti-Green flyers and more.
Howes 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).
Talking the Town: Lunch with Richo and the Faceless Man: launching Labor’s progressive manifesto
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.
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Arbib and Howes will be outflanked on gay marriage
Mark Arbib and union boss Paul Howes have announced their support for gay marriage. Both are influential voices but the Labor Right has the numbers and is very unlikely to support calls for a policy change, writes Phillip Coorey.
Mayne: will Gillard’s policy stocktake include union power?
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.
Drilling into Palmer’s myths
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.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: A word on wordles
Crikey readers examine our worldle word-play, and discuss home births, nuclear power, super funds, Afghanistan and more.
Paul Howes’ u-propaganda is radioactive
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.
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.
