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Future ALP politicians and current trade union officials are reportedly “furious” at former trade union officials and current ALP politicians for doing what pundits have expected: introducing “business-friendly” industrial relations laws. “Furious” trade union leaders are widely tipped to remain furious for some time, before becoming “angry”, “upset”, “bitter”, and then merely “resigned”.<\/p>\n
The broad structure of the coal-powered fluorescent bulb on the hill was explained by Gillard in her speech to The National Press Club on Wednesday titled ‘Introducing Australia’s New Workplace Relations System’<\/a>. Gillard also took this opportunity to burn her Which is all rather odd, especially given that — as angry White men across the country know — one of the first Acts<\/em> of Federal Parliament was the Immigration Restriction Act<\/em>. This Act<\/em> (together with the Pacific Island Labourers Act 1901<\/em>) formed the legal cornerstone of the White Australia policy; the Conciliation and Arbitration Act<\/em> — which in Labor Party mythology has ensured a ‘fair go’ for ‘working families’ for the bulk of the country’s history — was only assented to by Edward VII in 1904. Further, while 100 years ago the Gub’mint couldn’t get rid of the Pacific Islanders quick enough, they now wanna import them — albeit if only for a coupla years…<\/p>\n “SMALL business operators will be in a position to sack workers after giving them just one verbal warning and complying with a short check-list, under new business-friendly employment rules to be introduced by the Rudd Government” reckons Ben Schneiders. “The rules would allow small business to get on with running their operations, making a profit and giving people jobs, Ms Gillard said” (Union fury at Gillard’s IR changes<\/a>, Ben Schneiders, The Age<\/em>, September 18, 2008). A former Where does that leave working families Ms Gillard?<\/p>\nbra<\/strike> black armband, declaring in her opening remarks that “The signature values of nations are often defined by the circumstances of their birth… And for us there\u2019s one value above all others that we identify with as truly our own. It\u2019s the value that emerged out of the circumstances of Federation, which coincided with the industrial turbulence of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. That value is fairness. Or as we like to put it: \u2018the fair go\u2019.”<\/p>\nfactory worker<\/strike> lawyer, Gillard is not only a partisan of the petit-bourgeoisie<\/em>, she’s also — as Bill Heffernan helpfully pointed out<\/a> — shamelessly childless.<\/p>\n