good god. will this boring, pompous, self-satisfied woman ever stop posting her liberal crap?

Julie Vickers or the authoress? both are lost in a space well away from reality.

Belly,
Julie Vickers is being ironical. Felicity McMahon, I am afraid, is not. But that's good too, because it shows how far out of touch Liberals are.

Belly and Bushwacker

Com'on, don't you get it? Felicity McMahon and Julie Vickers are one and the same ALP stooge writing under two pseudonyms. She know she'll get rumbled by astute readers and Labor will get free kicks. That's the whole point.

Felicity kicks off with: "Studies have shown (PDF 636KB) that the presence of unions in an economy reduces the returns to skilled workers in an economy."

Click on the link she provides and it says nothing of the sort. The report she linked us to concludes: "...although unions in both industrial and developing countries are successful in securing a wage markup for their members and other workers covered by collective agreements, no general conclusions about the net costs (or benefits) of unions can be reached (p.5)." and "The evidence on the macroeconomic impact of collective bargaining in OECD countries is too weak and fragile to warrant generalizations (p.120)."

Felicity was giving a deliberate free kick to Labor.

Then her alter ego, Julie chimes in tongue-in-cheek: "Our Government would not pay large sums of money for adverts and tell us untruths and details that were incorrect...Now Look John Howard has been misunderstood." [Canned audience hysteria up full volume]

Same with her dissertation on fairness: "People now realise that the New Industrial Relations Laws are now fair for employees. ("We cannot be sacked by a small business with under 100 employees", she says.)

And her deliberate sarcasm re the plight of the poor employers: "Our Party believes in a fair go So please give our Companies a chance to make their profits." and

"We have nothing against Collective Bargaining the only thing wrong with it is that it puts an Employer at a disadvantage."

And she's just laying for the socialist teachers' vote with this: "All this rubbish that some teachers have to teach in hard to teach schools. This is why we must bring in Performance Management on teachers so that The Principal can favour who they want for promotion and higher pay."

C'mon Flick/Jules. Come clean - Ruddy put you up to this, didn't he?

Kevin Rudd... a.k.a. KRUDD (or just plain CRUD)

Definition of CRUD:

Noun:
1. (Euphemism) Crap.
2. Dirt, Filth or Refuse.
3. Heavy wet snow on which it is difficult to Ski.

Crud may refer to:
Crud (game), played on a billiard table.
Unidentified deposits on Nuclear Fuel.
Create, Retrieve/Read, Update and Delete (CRUD), basic functions of a computer database.
Crud, as a Minced Oath or in the Sense of Dirt, or a Euphemism for Crap

Derived Terms:
Cruddy Ruddy

I found this article hard to believe. Was it written by a supposedly intelligent, university-trained person? If so, then I am afraid that this only goes to support the contention that we are allowing people with too little intelligent aptitude in to these hallowed grounds.
Ms McMahon, your understanding of the issues defy belief. Your article, accordingly, has so many holes that a fleet of double-decker buses could be driven through. It also shows that you are coming from a societal priveleged base. May I suggest that you take a couple of years off from University and take youself to some underpriveleged areas, to examine the issues of real poverty? I am sure you will benefit, as your experiences and understanding increase. You may also learn that not everybody has the capacity to bargain for their own benefit; you may also learn.... my goodness, I could go on and on about what you need to learn. But I think at this point I will desist any further communications.
Oh, dear!