Scene 1 -Enter three weird witches Shorten: When shall we three meet again? Feeney: In thunder lightning or in rain? Arbib: If the polls stay looking bad. Shorten: There are plots to lay; numbers to add Feeney: Where the place? Arbib: Will Parliament do ya? Shorten: There to meet with Mc Julia. All: Fair is foul […]
Andrew Herington
Here are some of my thoughts about Andrew Herington. I first knew Andrew before I became very politically active in the ALP. He was a visitor to a house of ten people I lived in at Fitzroy which was made up of mostly ex- Monash Uni people. He was a close friend to Stephanie Bunbury […]
Labor- Electoral Strategy- Four options for Fiscal Policy
The major parties are readying themselves for a federal election in the spring of this year, and meanwhile, speculation around the ALP’s leadership continues to receive media coverage. For the record, I think the Party should stick with Anthony Albanese as any leadership spill would just lead the public to conclude that that type of […]
The Write Stuff- not wrong- But not quite enough
‘The Write Stuff’, a collection of essays from the Labor Party’s right-wing, has been promoted as a book that ‘plot’s the Party’s return to power’. It doesn’t do this. A few central things are missing. The book covers a wide range of policy topics including the importance of unions, addressing of casualisation and job insecurity, […]
Low Interest Rates- An Opportunity for Federal Labor
Australia’s net debt was A$174.5 billion in September 2013, when the Coalition took office. The debt is forecast to grow to $872 billion in 2020-21 (44.8 percent of GDP). Then it is forecast to hit $1 trillion in 2021-22 (50.5 percent of GDP). Then, $1.1 trillion in 2022-23 (51.6 percent of GDP). Yet, as a proportion of GDP, our […]
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