Tuesday, December 2, 2008

ABCC Rally Call reveals ALP's phoney approach to civil liberties

Hypocrisy of Australian Labor Party on Display

The Desert Rat notes the bare-faced hypocrisy of the ALP's call to members to a community rally outside State Parliament yesterday to protest against the draconian powers of the Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC) - John Howard's building industry watchdog.

The special powers of the ABCC are mild compared to those available to under WA's Crime and Corruption Commission Act to pursue Brian Burke and Julian Grill.

It is ironic that the ALP can be so offended by the powers of the ABCC but is prepared to support and sponsor even worse legislation in the form of the CCC Act in Western Australia.

Once our State ALP acted under fairly consistently policy, then it drifted into undisciplined pragmatism; now its just brazen expediency on regular display.

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