Prediction

This week’s major activity for Admiral Nelson and the media – documenting how many standards Rudd has had public servants breach (assuming the Iguanagate saga goes away at some point).

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Captain catches Truth Virus

John Howard helps to deliver a campaign message for Labor:
“If we win on Saturday then the reforms that we have brought about will never be reversed by a future federal Labor government,” he said.
“They will become part of the furniture. They will become so embedded in our business and workplace culture that no future Labor [...]

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The Honest Monk

Tony Abbott earns some credibility points:
“I accept that certain protections, in inverted commas, are not what they were,” he says in the video, broadcast on ABC TV.
“I accept that has largely gone. I accept that.
“I accept that the industrial relations commission doesn’t have the same power to reach into the nook and cranny of every [...]

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Failing the test

Around half of the AWAs that have been lodged since the introduction of the fairness test fail to meet its requirements.
Of course, Joe Hockey can keep telling us that this is a sign that the system is working – unfair AWAs are being picked up and rectified. He might even manage to keep a straight [...]

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Big Gun vs Red Julia

The IR czars are holding their National Press Club debate today – 12:30pm EDST on ABC (no indication in my TV guide of Nine/worm coverage). I’ll be in a cave, during that time, so I’ll have to catch up on it later.

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Public sector managers

Anti-union:
The federal Department of Employment and Workplace Relations today faces the prospect of being fined by a court for breaching federal industrial law.
Justice Catherine Branson found the department issued prohibited advice leading to Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) members being refused leave on the day of an anti-WorkChoices Rally.
She was critical of public sector [...]

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Julie Bishop is a dill. Discuss.

Apparently, 70% of the people who wrote the New South Wales HSC exam questions are former union officials:
Stan Rikhter, of South Sydney High School, said he was surprised to find himself writing about his views on the campaign against unions as part of the Industrial Technology exam.
He said the question, which asked students about “the [...]

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Let them eat ads

Now that the mid-year economic review data has been released, Labor has an up-to-date price tag of the taxpayer-funded propaganda campaigns. Julia Gillard has jumped on the WorkChoices advertising figures ($121 million in total; $66 million since the fairness test):
“$4 million a week each week of this financial year to try and convince Australians who [...]

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The other story of the day

Rudd and Gillard made a start on bringing WorkChoices into the campaign. It’s been overshadowed by the tax cuts, but was a decent start. However, if I may answer one of Kevin Rudd’s questions (perhaps not in the same way JWH would):
“What is to stop Mr Howard in the future from enforcing WorkChoices on nurses, [...]

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What George said

Another smart, sensible column from Mr Megalogenis, the theme of which is:
Beware leaders promising jobs.

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