Ex-PM Paul Keating has re-joined the political debate this week calling PM JoHo a "pre-copernican obscurantist". I nearly fell over in my rush to consult the dictionary.
Oh yes, JoHo, you deliberately vague flat-earther.
This, on ABC yesterday -
"The right to collectively organise pay and conditions of work is a basic civil right, it's the thing that cuts out the template on a democratic nation."
"When you say to people, 'you can't get together at work, you can't organise your conditions', you're back to the earlier part of the industrial revolution, and that's where Howard belongs."
"He's a pre-Copernican obscurantist. That's where he belongs, but let's not have all these turkeys in the business community saying, 'well isn't this shocking'."
"I mean, we've got a profit share in GDP today, like you couldn't jump over, that's why the stock market's so high, out of the last Labor government's IR policies."
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I am a little bit in love with Paul Keating, I think.
I've always been bamboozled by the success of conservative union bashing. Don't we all need unions? Why is it okay for professionals to have an 'association', and businesses to form a collective to promote their interests but not okay for those who are most powerless in our society to have an organisation designed to protect their rights?
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