Erima Dall looks at Labor’s drop in support and why it has disappointed its supporters
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40 years ago today the Daily Mail carried a front page picture of police officers carrying me away from a Miners Strike rally in Whitehall. I mightn’t have known, but a friend of my sister’s told her, having recognized me, with glee, when her dad picked the paper up at the breakfast table. (I never […]
Labor has won the Werribee by-election in Melbourne’s outer west by a whisker, with a massive swing against the party in what was formerly a rock-solid ALP state seat.
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by Tamar Barkay* Are the inverse trajectories of internal corporate social responsibility (CSR) and the decline of organized labor in the past decades linked? If so, how?These questions arise from three widely recognized observations. First, since the 1980s, most OECD countries have experienced a decline in unionization and union density rates (Visser, 2012). Second, following […]
The Victorian Labor government is using the firebombing of a Melbourne synagogue last month as an excuse to crack down on protesters.
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Weber, Max. 2005. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. Routledge (p. 24) *****While you enjoy and benefit from the ES/PE community’s contents and useful information, please consider making a donation to endorse our work. Your contribution will ensure the ES/PE community’s independence and sustain our mission. Donate safely via this PayPal link. Thank you!
The Opposition’s shadow minister for home and foreign affairs, Barnaby Joyce, has told his colleagues that he is ready to fight the next election and promises his leader, Peter Dutton, that he will handle the Nation’s swinging voters. ”When you... Read More ›
Donald Trump’s victory in the US Presidential elections will boost the right around the world.
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Labor has lost office in Queensland after nearly a decade. While early polling indicated an LNP landslide, in the end Labor managed to avoid total humiliation—but still suffered a substantial 7 per cent swing.
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Joanna Murray-Smith’s play Julia, directed by Sarah Goodes, is a dramatic retelling of the events leading up to Julia Gillard’s famous 2012 “Misogyny Speech”.
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