Like the former US president, Australia’s opposition leader has honed his skills by exploiting identity politics
‘Like Trump, Dutton is a false prophet: his policy platform of getting tough on immigration … and standing up for the little guy is riddled with holes.’‘Like Trump, Dutton is a false prophet: his policy platform of getting tough on immigration … and standing up for the little guy is riddled with holes.
Will Dutton’s Trump shtick work? Findings in his week’s Guardian Essential Report shows Australians are feeling significantly more positively towards Trump than at the chaotic end of his presidency.and minor party voters Trump is more favourable than Kamala Harris. Also striking is the strong support for Trump among those who self-identify as struggling financially and those who are now union members.
It is here that allegations of underworld infiltration of the CFMEU is manna from heaven for Dutton and potentially devastating for the Albanese government.The Dutton line, gleefully amplified across most media, is that the CFMEU is a feature not a bug of organised labour and that unions do not really represent the interests of workers any more.
While the temptation for Labor is to shut the CFMEU allegations down and move the focus away from unions on to less contested ground, this is precisely what it should not do. The government’s active support of a $100-a-week increase to the minimum wage in just over two years, the broader measures to improve pay for aged care and early learning workers and the introduction of rights for labour hire and gig workers, have all contributed to getting flatlining wages moving gain.
A final question shows that, in an era where the major parties have both been dragged to the centre, Labor retains a strong advantage on improving workers’ rights and supporting higher wages and conditions.Granted we are not in the halcyon days of worker consciousness, with just 12.5% union density, down from more than 50% at the beginning of the 1980s. But even on the issue of union corruption, people trust Labor over the Coalition.
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