A senior Queensland Opposition MP has been referred to a powerful parliamentary ethics committee after refusing to withdraw an accusation a minister had incited violence against her.
The emergence of Gary “Blocker” Bullock as Labor’s most influential unionist is a story of the rise of the left and the decline of the once-mighty AWU.
The Queensland turmoil has laid bare the reality that the ruling class and its political servants in the Labor governments could not survive without the union bureaucrats who pull the strings behind the scenes, no less committed to the capitalist and militarist agenda.
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