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Labor must ask serious questions on policy and values : Comments
By Tristan Ewins, published 22/10/2019'Root and branch' rejection of Labor's 2019 Platform would be a mistake.
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Posted by Armchair Critic, Tuesday, 22 October 2019 8:49:19 PM
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Australian Labor Party: Vote 1 - Incompetence
http://www.theage.com.au/politics/victoria/fines-victoria-system-collapses-leaving-massive-hole-in-state-budget-20191022-p5333d.html Posted by Armchair Critic, Tuesday, 22 October 2019 9:15:24 PM
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Armchair,
Social justice is a fair go for all. Overreacting to schoolboys singing I Wish All The Women has very little to do with social justice. Posted by Aidan, Tuesday, 22 October 2019 11:01:10 PM
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Before WW2 the ALP was a national socialist party. In other words their ideology was authoritarian socialism, but at least they were patriotic or Australia First.
After WW2 the ALP began progressively shifting away from national socialism towards international socialism. In other words their ideology is still authoritarian socialism & they are anti-patriotic or Australia Last as well. Which is even worse. What part of that simple equation are the Wokely Award Losers struggling to understand? Posted by imacentristmoderate, Saturday, 2 November 2019 4:16:37 AM
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You shouldn't throw around the term 'national socialism' so lightly as a consequence of the associations with Nazism. International socialism is appropriate as without internationalism there are political and economic barriers to reform. BTW - that doesn't mean you don't care about your country. It does mean you may co-operate to prevent pointless and costly wars ; to improve labour standards ; to reverse the trend of a 'race to the bottom on tax' which hurts services, welfare and infrastructure.
Posted by Tristan Ewins, Saturday, 2 November 2019 11:55:30 AM
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BTW, talking about authoritarianism - it's the Liberals clamping down on a free media, and criminalising movements to boycott coal. It's also the Liberals who want to pass legislation which could see unions dissolved for exercising their right to strike to secure wages and conditions for members. Or as an act of political protest. There's a divide in the Liberal Party, and it's the authoritarian Conservatives who are winning.
That said: Claire O'Neil was right that Labor has to be careful not to ostracise those don't accept the entirety of 'the progressive agenda'. If we're too hard line and don't engage respectfully we'll lose votes. Posted by Tristan Ewins, Saturday, 2 November 2019 12:03:57 PM
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It means punishing people that aren't actually breaking any laws.
Bullying, coercing and peer pressing people to change a behavior that was never unlawful in the first place.
Take this as an example:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-10-21/st-kevins-apologises-after-students-sexist-chant/11623880
Now we can all agree it wasn't a good look.
And what they were chanting wasn't exactly respectful to women.
Other passengers may have had cause to be offended by their behavior.
But the question is this:
Is what they said illegal?
Did they break any laws in their 'chant'?
'Social Justice' says they broke laws
- That don't even exist.