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Labor will go to the next election with a plan to crack down on rolling contracts that leave workers uncertain whether they will keep their jobs, in a policy leader Anthony Albanese will unveil in Queensland this week.
The Opposition Leader will deliver a speech on industrial relations on Wednesday with three other major themes: addressing casualisation, giving more rights to gig economy workers at companies like Uber, and ensuring labour hire workers are paid at least as much as direct employees working alongside them.
Laborâs Anthony Albanese and Kristina Keneally will line up to deliver a one-two punch this week.
Australian Labor Party and unions pretend to oppose corporate offensive on workers’ jobs, pay and conditions
Desperate to halt the collapse of what remains of their working class support, the Australian Labor Party and its associated trade union bureaucrats are trying to portray themselves as workers’ champions in the face of the intensifying government-corporate assault on working conditions.
Having policed every attack on workers’ jobs, wages and basic rights for decades, and joined hands even more closely with the employers and the Liberal-National Coalition government since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, they are terrified of the prospect of rank-and-file opposition, such as that by the Coles warehouse workers at Smeaton Grange in southwest Sydney.
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Prayers and polity as Parliament keeps the faith
Politicians rely more than most on the assurance of things hoped for and the conviction of things not seen.
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Faith is an immutable characteristic of politics, if not of Australian society at large. It is always on show at the start of a new parliamentary year – striking some as an anachronism from a less secular age.
But politicians rely more than most on the assurance of things hoped for and the conviction of things not seen.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison greets Richard Marles and Anthony Albanese at a church service on Tuesday.