Category: Paul Howes

21 Nov

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Taken at face value, Labor is in a lot of trouble

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It was difficult to know how to approach Paul Howes’ Confessions Of A Faceless Man, his public “diary” of the 2010 election campaign. Was it to be a tell-all insider’s account delivering anecdotes that journalistic efforts would miss? Was it to be a re-evaluation of the problems the first-term federal government got itself into, a thoughtful […]

Filed under: ALP, democracy, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, Paul Howes, trade unions

29 Jul

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Red baiting back in fashion

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The NSW Senate race has produced a sideline of media commentary attacking Lee Rhiannon, the lead Greens candidate and until recently a NSW Upper House MP. Most of it has been along the lines of the socialist menace lurking beneath the apparently acceptable green exterior of the party.

Filed under: Bob Brown, Greens, Lee Rhiannon, Marxism, Paul Howes, Stalinism