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Print text only Cancel The Australian Workers Union has made a dramatic intervention in Labor's Tasmanian election campaign, urging the party's national executive to overturn the preselection process, after a popular mayor was snubbed as a candidate. Key points: Acting national secretary for the AWU Misha Zelinsky says the party's administrative committee deliberately manipulated the process to deny Mr Winter preselection  Mr Winter has expressed views characterised by the left faction as "anti-worker" The AWU has requested all existing preselection decisions be scrapped and a fairer proce...

Identity politics, Australia and George Christensen's shameful 'northern strategy' Normal text size Advertisement For years now, brave souls on the political left have been critical of the tendency of their own to intolerantly dismiss those who do not conform to a purist progressive world view. Central to these concerns is the divisive, baleful influence of "identity politics". As left-wing English thinker Jonathan Rutherford writes: "The generation of 1968 created political movements around sexuality and gender and took up the issue of race, but [modern] liberalism has turned identity politi...