A new light on the hill | The Australian
In Saturday’s Australian Tim Soutphommasane had a long piece on where Rudd and Labor stand in ideological terms. Part way through reading it I started to notice that there was a lot missing from his account of the ALP’s current relationship with its traditional ideology. What was missing was any references to workers, and account of unions and the ALP’s relationship with unions, there was no critque of capitalism, no sense of the employment relationship as a source of inequality or exploitation. In fact, anything that might distinguish Labor from its opponents seemed to have been airbrushed out.
