The CFMEU (Qld) has announced a formal withdrawal from the Left faction of the Queensland Labor Party. The Construction division secretary, Michael Ravbar, announced the news this morning in a statement saying… “more effective advocates for workers as a voice totally independent of a faction that has lost touch with its core values. The leadership…
It seems such a highly improbable event amidst the current economic climate and governmental responses to the pandemic, but federal Labor is actively talking about splitting over climate change policy. The issue, which helped cost Labor elections in 2016 and 2019 – and that for all intents and purposes cost them the 2013 election – remains a source of intractable policy division inside Labor ranks. On the one side, climate change is a matter of policy dogma and perhaps (as Kevin Rudd famously declared in 2007 the “greatest moral challenge of our generation”). It is an article of faith among…
by Chris McCormack Health workers comprise 14 per cent of covid19 cases Forty-five per cent of doctors have limited or no access to N95 masks Conflicting government advice on level of PPE required If one is to believe the official statistics for covid19 infections in Victoria, the burgeoning number of active cases among healthcare workers, 1079 (around 14 per cent) of total active cases at the time of writing, is cause for concern. Could the lack of P2/N95 respirator masks that health workers require be playing a part in the high rate of infection? Surgical masks do not filter out…
