Our legal system and theirs: Hu, Hicks, Habib, Haneef…
Isn’t it dreadful what the Chinese have done to Stern Hu? Nothing like that could ever happen in Australia. After all we are a democracy and have an impartial judicial system. Before we jump on the...
View ArticleJulia Gillard is the Peter Reith of the Labor Party
Julia Gillard is the Peter Reith of the Labor Party. Of course she’s more nuanced, more articulate and has more influence over the trade union movement than Reith. That makes her more dangerous to...
View ArticleSo which mining magnate did you vote for at the last election?
We are so lucky in our democracy to have such a choice of mining magnates at election time. And of such quality too. At the 2007 election I really found it difficult to decide which one to vote for....
View ArticleSafety on site
This is a copy of a letter I sent to the Canberra Times after it ran a report about the CFMEU – the building workers’ union – taking action for being stopped coming onto a site in Canberra to check...
View ArticleArk – one of our tribe
Ark Tribe is a building worker. Ark went to a lunchtime union meeting about safety on site. The Liberal established and Labor supported Australian Building and Construction Commission directed Ark to...
View ArticleFcuk the Labor Party
What does Labor stand for? Nothing I believe in or want, even this side of the revolution. War? Yes, from East Timor to Afghanistan Labor is a party of warmongers. Imperialism? Yes. Its support for...
View ArticleJust who are the real extremists – Labor or the Greens?
The people who gave you Julia Gillard are now attacking the Greens. Sam Dastyari, the right wing head of the right wing party machine in New South Wales, called the Greens ‘…extremists not unlike One...
View ArticleThank you building workers
What a great day it was for workers and socialists. In Melbourne thousands of building workers showed the power of the working class. They repulsed an attack by police to escort scabs on to the Grocon...
View ArticleThey die for profit
Last year around 50 building workers died on site. There are no parades, no politicians crying, no heads of government or their agencies mourning their loss and proclaiming the black day it is for...
View ArticleOf police and other deaths
On Friday Detective Inspector Bryson Anderson attended a dispute between neighbours. He was stabbed and died. Two people have been charged with his murder. By all accounts Anderson was a decent man...
View ArticlePolice, horse dribblers and other merde
I was in Melbourne over Easter 2011 for Marxism that year and went to a demonstration at Maribyrnong concentration camp (aka a detention centre) the day after. Some of you may have seen the report by...
View ArticleCan we cull the business sharks who kill building workers?
In Western Australia the Liberal government of Colin Barnett is going to cull sharks near WA beaches becuase there have been 2 fatal shark attacks there recently. It is in fact much more dangerous to...
View ArticleThe forthcoming Australian election and the ongoing attacks on unions and...
Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has outmanoeuvred the too clever by half Greens. He has got the Governor General to prorogue and recall the Parliament for 18 April to debate the anti-union...
View ArticleCan we make 18 April a day of protest for unions and against the ABCC?
Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull got the Governor-General to prorogue Parliament and recall it for 3 weeks from 18 April to consider the anti-union and anti-building worker Australian...
View ArticleGuns for votes, the Australian Building and Construction Commission and...
(Image via @ChristineEwing7) The Coalition Government in Australia is struggling with internal divisions and crossbench pressures, plus recent polls show it is “on the nose” with voters. To read the...
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