While backing Biden’s intensifying confrontation with China, Wong voiced nervousness about members of the Australian government openly “beating the war drums,” for fear of triggering public opposition.
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Australian transport union hails trucking corporations ahead of enterprise agreement negotiations
In a statement last week, the Transport Workers Union (TWU) made clear that it would work closely with the major logistics companies including Toll, Linfox, StarTrack and FedEx, to try and ram through pro-business workplace agreements covering its members. At the same time, the union will wage a phony campaign against other corporations, claiming that they are providing insufficient payments to the trucking companies.
The announcement followed a statement in the Summer 2020 edition of the
TWU Journal, which spelt out that the union would approach the negotiation of upcoming enterprise agreements (EAs) from the standpoint that any improvements to workers’ pay and conditions would be subordinated to the profit interests of the employers.
The Nats lose touch with their âwonderful peopleâ - the farmers whoâll be our climate saviours
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The Nats lose touch with their âwonderful peopleâ - the farmers whoâll be our climate saviours
John HewsonColumnist and former Liberal opposition leader
February 10, 2021 â 6.43pm
February 10, 2021 â 6.43pm
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The National Party is ignorant, misleading and divisive on climate change â and, to its peril, woefully out of touch with its constituency, the âwonderful peopleâ, as leader Michael McCormack calls them. He means the farmers, many of whom would be hurt by the Nationalsâ attempt to exclude agriculture from any commitment â still only a âpreferenceâ for Prime Minister Scott Morrison â to achieve net zero emissions by 2050.