ALP back-pedals on workers' rights
Since Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard took the leadership of the Australian Labor Party on 4 December 2006, the ALP's website has been changed to remove any upfront commitment to repeal John Howard's anti-worker laws. Under Labor's previous leader, Kim Beazley, the ALP's commitments were vague, but at least the ALP website featured, on its front page, a picture of Beazley tearing up the Howard legislation, and it was easy to find on it speeches by ALP leaders promising the repeal the legislation, even if they were evasive about the ALP's alternatives. All that has gone. There is no link from the...