Gosh Polly Waffle and Bird Brain are competing to see who can post the most silly SPAM.
All they need is LostSnail to complete the trio.
The old despairing disgruntled Lefties know HillBilly does not have a snowball's hope in HELL of ever winning the election now and they are getting a bit depressed.
Unemployment is falling exports are up and Mal is lining new deals up with Germany while HillBilly is planning and plotting to bash the pensioners and bring black African terrorists into Australia.
Look out the Commos are coming!!! They want to turn the clock back to the 70's!!!
Australian unions launch campaign to re-elect an anti-working class Labor governmentBy Terry Cook and Oscar Grenfell 19 April 2018
The Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU), the national union umbrella federation, is conducting a multi-million dollar campaign entitled “Change the Rules.” The operation—which includes a blitz of television and social media advertising, and limited protests over the coming weeks—is a desperate attempt to channel mounting disaffection over social inequality, the rising cost of living and record-low wage growth behind the election of another pro-business federal Labor government.Launching the campaign in a National Press Club address last month, ACTU secretary Sally McManus cynically invoked the deepening social crisis, for which the trade unions are responsible due to their collaboration with the successive governments and the corporate elite.
McManus denounced the extent of social inequality, which she observed was at a 70-year high. She reviewed the growing prevalence of casual and precarious employment, falling wages, the rising cost of living and increasing poverty.
McManus’ address included populist denunciations of big business and the Liberal-National Coalition government headed by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull. “The billionaire class is not going to limit its greed,” she declared. “It needs limits imposed, and it is us, the people of Australia, who must do this.”
McManus pointed to mounting opposition in the working class, saying: “This crisis is making Australian workers angry. Angry at the indifference of the Turnbull government, which instructs us to wait patiently for the trickle-down to happen. Angry at CEOs whose pay and bonuses soar while families struggle to pay the bills.”
McManus and the ACTU know, however, that anger among workers is directed not only against the Coalition, but also at the trade unions and the Labor Party. Both are discredited bureaucratic shells, which function as the open instruments of the corporate elite.
Union membership has fallen to record lows, barely 10 percent across the private sector. Among young workers, the figure is less than 5 percent. Labor Party national president Mark Butler stated earlier this year that the unions had reached “a threshold we regarded years ago as existentially threatening,” while the Labor Party could not “credibly claim to be a mass-membership party.”
Under these conditions, Labor and the unions are terrified that they will be unable to suppress the emerging social and political struggles of the working class. They have followed closely the wave of strikes among American teachers, British lecturers, and other sections of workers around the world, which have developed as a rebellion against the thoroughly corporatised trade unions.
Already, a series of disputes in Australia, including those involving New South Wales rail staff this year and Victorian teachers last year, have led to near-rebellions by workers against union-brokered sell-out agreements.
Over the past year, McManus has attended a host of picket lines and protests, trying to head off an open confrontation between workers and the unions. In each instance, she has deployed fake-militant rhetoric to buttress the attempts by ACTU affiliates to isolate striking and locked-out workers, and help impose regressive enterprise agreements that slash wages and conditions and destroy jobs.
Addressing a union delegates meeting in Melbourne on April 17 to begin the campaign, McManus sought to present the unions as leading an offensive against “trickle-down economics” and “neoliberalism.”
McManus made clear, however, that the real aim of “Change the Rules” is to subordinate workers to the re-election of a Labor government. “We need to change the government, we need to kick out Malcolm Turnbull,” she declared, adding it was critical that the campaign secure Labor’s support.
McManus invoked the “Your Rights At Work” campaign waged by the unions in 2006–07 as a model to be emulated. That operation, which included the union suppression of strike activity to its lowest level in history, was aimed at channelling widespread hostility to the draconian “Work Choices” industrial legislation of the Howard Liberal-National government behind the election of a Labor government headed by Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard.
Bit more Socialist garbage herehttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/04/19/actu-a19.html
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