Australians are working more than they were before the pandemic, but have less money to show for it, according to new research.
Source: Australians working longer for less money – Michael West
Tag: Labor
It’s an International Right-Wing that wants to keep Labor National and domesticated and divided. Whereas humans while multicultural and diverse are materially united by their labour.
Poland’s prime minister, Mateusz Morawiecki, has joined figures including Donald Trump, Giorgia Meloni and Viktor Orbán in addressing a global right-wing rally in Spain.
“The EU wants to turn its back on tradition…the Brussels bureaucrats are expanding their powers…to create a transnational beast without true and traditional values, without a soul,” said Morawiecki, who had been welcomed onto the stage by Santiago Abascal, leader of Spain’s Vox party.
Source: Polish PM joins Trump, Meloni and Orbán in addressing right-wing rally in Spain | Notes From Poland
My thought for the day Sometimes wisdom jumps a generation. Well, we can always hope. ( John Lord )
Source: Only Labor can implement the much-needed change we need – » The Australian Independent Media Network
I sure hope Labor get this right because the country, and in fact the world, cannot afford another three years of Scott Morrison and Barnaby Joyce – a more short-sighted self-serving pair would be hard to find.
Source: Labor needs to get better at answering questions – » The Australian Independent Media Network
Karl Marx’s groundbreaking account of labor alienation forms an invaluable part of his thought. For Marx, alienation was fundamental to grasping capitalism and how to dismantle it.
Source: For Karl Marx, Alienation Was Central to Understanding Capitalism
The Australian High Court has just ruled that, if an employment contract says you are a casual worker, then you must be a casual worker — even if you work regular, ongoing hours. The decision is a massive blow to workers’ rights.
Source: Australia Has Rolled Workers’ Rights Back to the 1800s
The world of work has changed dramatically in the past two years of pandemic. Emergency measures have sent businesses to the wall and left others unable to fill staff gaps. We have learnt overdue lessons on the value of the people who conduct the many backbreaking and thankless tasks in hospitality and tourism. But control of the commanding heights of the labour market remains with the big end of town, writes Michael Sainsbury.
My thought for the day The left of politics is concerned with people who cannot help themselves. The right is concerned with those who can. (John Lord )
Source: This might help Labor win the ‘must win’ election – » The Australian Independent Media Network
Suicide is painless
With all of that in mind, if we at the time would have followed Tony Abbott’s advice to kill the NBN altogether, would that have been better? Was Malcolm Turnbull’s alternative of stripping down the fibre to the home (FttH) plan to the Multi Technology Mix (MTM), with hindsight, indeed the better option?
And the NBN is not the only casualty of this level of politicking. The energy policy, climate change policy, electric vehicle policy — all have been delayed by the Coalition Government for a decade. They are now finally followed by one backflip after the other.
Obviously, this also reflects the voters who preferred a conservative government that would not come up with those “scary” progressive policies. We no longer are trying to reach each other at the middle ground. When I (and others) between 2007 and 2012 tried to build broadband bridges between the Labor Government and, at that time, the Coalition Opposition, there was absolutely no interest from the Liberal Party to do this — not on broadband, not on smart energy, not on e-health and so on.
Now, 10-15 years later, all these policies are suddenly being accepted by the Coalition. What a waste of time having delayed progress on these issues for so long.
Source: Tony Abbott’s NBN plan may have been a better option
Agricultural bosses and their allies are accusing Australians of being work-shy as they face a post-pandemic labor shortage. But it’s low wages and abusive working conditions that make it hard for them to find workers. The solution is obvious: decent pay for decent work.
Source: Australian Agricultural Bosses Can’t Find Workers. Maybe They Should Try Paying More.
Labor does what the LNP can’t in 6 years of trying. Australia had the World’s best Treasurer until the LNP came along.(ODT)
Victoria will undergo “the biggest public transport building program in Australian history” if the state Labor government is re-elected, Premier Daniel Andrews will promise in a speech marking 100 days until the November state poll.
In notes seen by The Age, the Premier will also take aim at the privatisation of Victoria’s energy market and the companies reaping massive profits.
“We were promised that a privatised electricity market would lower prices,” he will say in his address to the Committee for Economic Development. “Wrong. Privatisation has not worked.”
via Victorian Labor promises biggest transport building program in Australia
“The nation-state law sponsored by @Netanyahu’s government discriminates against Israel’s Palestinian minority. I stand with the tens of thousands of Arab and Jewish citizens of Israel demonstrating for equal rights at the weekend in Tel Aviv,” Corbyn sai
via UK Labour’s Corbyn Refutes Netanyahu’s Smears, Calls out Policy of Shooting Gaza Kids
IT TAKES ALMOST 2 YEARS TO DEFEAT A LIAR WHO THEN SIMPLY WALKS AWAY IN SILENCE. A TYPICAL AND DAILY TACTIC BY ANDREW BOLT A MURDOCH MAN DO
The former Israel lobbyist and high-profile Labour lawmaker Ruth Smeeth has deleted a statement from her website which alleged anti-Semitism in Labour.
In one of the most high profile instances of the supposed “anti-Semitism crisis” in the UK’s main opposition party, Smeeth in June 2016 claimed she had been “attacked by a Momentum activist and Jeremy Corbyn supporter who used traditional anti-Semitic slurs to attack me for being part of a ‘media conspiracy.’”
Activist Marc Wadsworth had in fact neither said nor implied anything about Jews. Neither did he use the word “conspiracy.”
Smeeth did not reply to a request for comment. You can read the deleted statement in full below.
via Labour Israel lobbyist deletes anti-Semitic “conspiracy” claims | The Electronic Intifada
Ian the Climate Denialist Potato has invited Bethany the intern to speak to his new coffee shop franchisees. But does he know she’s in the union?
Donald Trump’s campaign often attempted to recall bygone American eras, and with his selection of Andrew Puzder, Trump is reaching all the way back to the late 19th century—the time of the robber barons.
Source: Trump Just Told the Fight for $15 to Go Screw Itself | The Nation
False allegations are being used as weapons against Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership.
Source: How Israel lobby manufactured UK Labour Party’s anti-Semitism crisis | The Electronic Intifada
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