I didn't realise the unions had traded away penalty rates for the chains.. good stuff..

It must really irk John Slater that Pauline Hanson is doing better? Doing the big dummy spit Johnny does not help you mate. It shows you think a tantrum from you counts, it does not. Labour especially are not the workers friend. Reducing wages and taking bribes is disgusting. Bill Shorten take a bow but you know this.
The workers who will never get a better job than burger flipping are ill-served. The small business owners who put the house up to make a quid are hated by you and the big end of town who you are helping. The big companies are only happy with franchisees who they can take for every dollar they have.
This is the way the world works, PHON will use whatever to harvest votes and you blokes are going to have to live with it!

Ok then. So the solution is to dissallow the trading off of weekend penalty rates across the board. That'd level the playing field.

Pauline's doing what a representative's supposed to do. Listening to constituents.
That's how democracy's supposed to work.

is this article about the hatred for Hanson or the fact that she listened and then changed her mind?

Runner it is about Pauline Hanson learning lessons and adapting to get more votes.
Gee wouldn't it be lovely if some other leaders followed this lead?

The difficulty for Hanson, given she sides with the 'battlers' (aka 'populism'), is the existance of employee (sometimes unionised) battlers as opposed to employer (often self-employed small business) battlers. It's a juggling act for her.

Hanson would do even better if she got rid of the runt hanging off her right teat.
Her political science is not yet settled.

Yeah, but it's like this, John. Pauline Hanson is the only politician in Australia smart enough to say that Muslim immigration into Australia must cease. So, I don't care if she backflips over penalty rates, or sprouts some anti vaccination nonsense. On the important issue of Muslim immigration, she is absolutely right. So, John, she has got my vote.

Walled Ali can advocate the "Muslim" "Australians". Noel Pearson can advocate for aborigines. Penny Wong can advocate for Chinese, and nobody is going to criticise any of them. But if Pauline Hanson advocates for white Australians, it is racism. White people are racists, but nobody else is. I have a real problem with that mindset, John.

John Slater writes:

<<<"Voters seeking to throw weight behind a party willing to confront the issues of unsustained spending largesse, Australia's waning competitiveness and our fading entrepreneurial spirit would be well advised to look elsewhere than One Nation. Pauline Hanson's brand of conservatism is little better than snake oil">>>

Your problem is that most people will not accept ever increasing inequality alongside entrenched poverty, so the manner of confronting those issues you outlined above will be subject to popular opinion.

No doubt your brand of conservatism will only increase poverty and inequality in a free-market, global economy (implying a race to the bottom on the wages and taxation side), as well-paying manufacturing jobs are replaced by low-paying service jobs, in an environment of increasing under-employment.

Last nights ABC bashing of Pauline Hanson was to be expected.
It points up the difficulties in small parties.
Her appointment of whatshisname as a senior adviser seems to have been a major mistake.

A real measure of that party will be how they overcome their internal
problems and find better management people.
Unfortunately it seems that political parties need quite different managers.

However despite all that as it stands One Nation, and a couple of
others will be getting my preference before Libs, Lab & Greens in that order.