30 August, 2011
Paralysed Industry Minister Kim Carr does not want the scrutiny of a review which would embarrass him over his lack of stewardship, support of a carbon tax and a litany of other policy failures.
Labor is paralysed like a rabbit in the spotlight and pathetically can’t even hold an inquiry in...
29 August, 2011
Julia Gillard had yet another meeting today with key unions and an industry group searching for solutions to Australia’s unfolding manufacturing crisis which predictably ended with no outcome.
Dave Oliver, head of the AMWU and Paul Howes, head of the AWU, today joined Heather Ridout, Chief ...
25 August, 2011
In international law a ship of war must fly its colours at the commencement of a hostile act. Such was the vim and vigour of the then Shadow Industry Minister, Kim Carr in 2007. On 13 September 2007 Senator Carr said:
“Labor understands that complacency is not an option. That is why Labor s...
24 August, 2011
Industry Minister, Kim Carr promised on Monday that the Government would be making a big announcement later in the week to bolster Australia’s flailing manufacturing sector. Whilst addressing the press at Parliament House with the Prime Minister and Treasurer at his side, Senator Carr said:
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22 August, 2011
Today’s announcement by BlueScope of 1,000 steel workers jobs to be axed adds to the stockpile of misery of more than 105,000 manufacturing jobs that have been lost over the past 3 years.
At a time of predictions for even more misery in the manufacturing sector as companies enter financial ...
18 August, 2011
Labor backbenchers were conned by carbon tax rhetoric from their party room – a fact they soon discovered when they faced their own constituents who told them that the tax was not going to fly in manufacturing intensive electorates.
Media outlets have reported that about 20 Labor MPs...
01 August, 2011
Whilst the Gillard Government commits all of its resources to selling its toxic and unwanted carbon tax, Australian manufacturing businesses are closing their doors.
The Australian Industry Group (AIG) – PricewaterhouseCoopers Performance of Manufacturing Performance Index (PMI) data for Ju...
25 July, 2011
Truck transport workers and truck owner-drivers all around Australia have joined the chorus that the Gillard Government is incompetent and unworthy of office, as the “detested class of ruthless, robotic machine men” of the Labor Party continue their carbon tax carnage.
The National Secretar...
20 July, 2011
Whilst faceless Australian Workers Union (AWU) boss Paul Howes shows he has no spine and has joined the throng of Labor lobotomised zombies, the Electrical Trades Union (ETU) has publicly rejected the Gillard Government’s carbon tax.
Dean Mighell, the Victorian State Secretary of the ETU, ...
19 July, 2011
The National Secretary of the Australian Workers Union (AWU), Paul Howes, has finally endorsed Labor’s carbon tax.
Mr Howes previously vowed to oppose the carbon tax if it cost a single worker’s job.
Julia Gillard has refused to give any guarantee that jobs will not be lost as a re...