{"id":19300,"date":"2010-08-18T03:40:07","date_gmt":"2010-08-17T17:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=19300"},"modified":"2010-08-18T03:40:07","modified_gmt":"2010-08-17T17:40:07","slug":"green-sparks-in-melbourne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=19300","title":{"rendered":"Green sparks in Melbourne"},"content":{"rendered":"

The ETU (Victoria)<\/a> has put its money where its mouth is, and donated a heap ’em big sum of $ to The Greens in order to support their election campaign (Union bankrolls Greens<\/a>, Ben Schneiders, The Age<\/em>, August 18, 2010). 125K has gone to law-talking guy Adam Bandt<\/a>, while another 200K has been thrown at quack Richard Di Natale<\/a>. On the other side of the equation, the ASU has thrown its weight — and I dunno how much filthy lucre — behind Bandt’s Labor opponent, law-talking grrl Cath Bowtell<\/a>. Earlier, law-talking guys at Slater & Gordon gave Bowtell their big tick of approval, but until The Firm does what the ETU done and invests some of its “$19.8 million net profit for the year to June 30, up from $17.04 million the previous year”<\/a> at the races, I reckon it’s so much tricksiness. In any case, the cautionary admonitions of Comrades Gerard Henderson<\/a>, Paul Howes<\/a> and Christian<\/a> ‘The Christian’ Kerr<\/a> have thus far failed to stop The-Red-Disease-That-Eats-Away-At-The-Heart-Of-Our-Democracy from swaying the moar gullible voters into supporting it — both in the polls and, presumably, cum<\/em> Saturday. I’m guessing that, regardless of the outcome, the boys will continue to live a million miles away from Beasley Street<\/a>.<\/p>\n

See also<\/em> : Victoria: the left-leaning state?<\/a> (August 14, 2010) | Adam Bandt ~versus~ Cath Bowtell<\/a> (August 13, 2010) | Unions must leave Labor \/\/ \u201cTracy!\u201d<\/a> (February 11, 2010) | The ALP facing extinction?<\/a> (January 31, 2009).<\/p>\n

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