Blood on the docks

The MUA has stepped up it's payback against the Howard admistration by requesting confidential cabinet information about the Patrick Stevedores dispute in the 90's that significantly reduced their power on the docks. They allege charges of conspiracy against former Howard ministers.

One sentence in this article grabbed my attention most:

The quest for all Coalition government documentation on the waterfront dispute not protected by 30-year cabinet-in-confidence rules was unsuccessfully pursued when Labor was in Opposition by its former transport spokesman Lindsay
Tanner on the MUA's behalf.

My italics. I told you Tanner was up to his neck in it. He's a thick as thieves with the MUA, in a sense that is all but literal. Together they are conspiring to rip the Australian people off by restricting foreign cabotage and allowing pattern bargaining, which i recently went into.

This is more proof, if any were needed, that in his own garbled terminology Spanner is a 'producerist' with regard to the supply of wharfie labour , and by his own logic the economic enemy of this country.

In my terminology he's a hypocrite.