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'New Labor' giving way to 'Old Labor' : Comments

By Tim O'Hare, published 17/12/2014

Andrews comes from the Socialist Left with alleged ties to the militant CFMEU and unlike Bracks, who had a diverse background in business and teaching, Daniel Andrews' entire career has been as a staffer and party organiser.

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The CFMEU scare did not work in the election campaign, and it’s not going to work now. The CFMEU has 32 delegates to the ALP state conference. That’s about 5 per cent of the 600 who attend. That leaves 95 per cent who are not CFMEU delegates. The “CFMEU controlled” line is just nonsense to fool the gullible.
Posted by Chris C, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 10:45:59 AM
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"He comes from the Socialist Left with alleged ties to the militant CFMEU and unlike Bracks, who had a diverse background in business and teaching, Daniel Andrews' entire career has been as a staffer and party organiser.

Where Steve Bracks offered a tight working relationship with the business community and sometimes took the side of the employers against striking workers, Daniel Andrews owes everything to the union movement as evidenced by their financing of his formidable campaign."

After making the supposedly correct observation above, it is baffling how the author can then reach the following conclusion in respect of Victorian Labor:

"Labor stands uniquely with the ability to bring old divisions together- unions and industry, blue-collar workers and tweed-coated professionals, front-line service workers and upwardly mobile trades people."
Posted by Raycom, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 4:29:43 PM
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PM Hawke's main project was managing wage rises and inflation via the accords. This emphasis on class politics kept him in government.

He was followed by a succession of trendies, who pursued progressive politics and had no more chance of forming government than the greens.

PM Rudd rediscovered class politics with his campaign against workchoices. It won him an election.

In short, when the ALP campaign on class politics, they win elections. When they campaign on progressive social politics, they lose. I cannot understand why they don't get it.
Posted by benk, Saturday, 20 December 2014 9:28:49 AM
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Australians don't see that as class politics, but see class politics as unAustralian.
Posted by Aidan, Saturday, 20 December 2014 9:58:28 AM
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Class is rarely mentioned in direct terms, but there is a clear sense of us and then in many debates. No cause can afford to be associated with elites.
Posted by benk, Sunday, 21 December 2014 4:09:36 PM
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