Lets understand business, or more specifically a certain grouping of big business in Australia. Essentially they are commercial prostitutes. They are simply looking to cut a deal, any deal and at any price to advance their commercial interests. This fact of behaviour is well known to the Left, to unions and to the Labor Party. What these modern Left groups offer to the commercial 'prostitute' business sector is deals, deals that will give the members of that business sector a leg up over competitors. In playing this deal-making game the Left etc effectively implement a form of socialism. Its not socialism where the state owns the means of production. But its a situation where the Left etc Establishment, micro manage the 'prostitute' business sector therefore 'managing' the economy and society to their own liking. Its a form of monopoly delivery to those businesses that toe the line. Who wins? The insiders! Who loses? Everyone else. Has Dutton woken up to this? Perhaps John Roskam, you are indicating that he has.
Great comment, Ken - you have nailed the true nature of how modern ‘Marxist-Socialism’ now manifests. For the Green-Left it is all about control - control of all society, not just the economy. The boards of directors of the big corporates in Australia appear to be people without any ethical underpinnings. Their Australia Day behaviour Is contemptible. They seem to be prepared to make any sort of Faustian bargain with the Green-Left to advance their predatory business models. A pox on all their houses!
Reading all this makes me wonder whether we can't set up a stall or two selling Australia Day merchandise outside Woolies stores for all those shoppers denied the ability to get the gear because of the silly virtue signalling top managers at monopoly supermarket chain. I can hear the loud hailer now enticing best buys for the "little guy" in Aussie thongs and T-shirts. Supermarket executives pay extra.!Great pictures for the media and gets the message across.
Being passive and mild about the culture war has gotten us to precisely where we are. Its time to take the gloves off. Every company that dares to wade into lefto-wokist agendas needs to be Bud-Lighted. The first few times will show the rest. I cant believe what I am seeing - Aus was pretty muscularly patriotic when I came here in 1988 from commie-land. A generation of self-haters was brought up since. Look up John Birmingham's views about Aus day, I used to think he was the good Aussie larrikin not a useful idiot.
Excellent points raised. I remember seeing posters Woolworths produced in 1988 for the Bicentenary celebrations with the Australian Flag and Australian history very proudly displayed (you can still find them online). How our corporate culture has declined!
Excellent article. This paragraph speaks volumes about the delusional lunacy of the virtue signallers and the woke mindset. It also made my day.
‘We laughed at The North Face clothing company when it was criticised by the boss of an oil company who was refused permission to put his firm's logo on North Face jackets, because North Face didn't want to be associated with 'fossil fuels'. He wrote to The North Face and told them something they may not have known - 'your jackets are made from oil and gas products.'
Further to my earlier comment about setting up stalls for Aussie day merch outside Woolies stores, I also like the idea of a special Woolworths shareholder discount for Aussie Day merch for anyone who is a Woolworths shareholder, or who owns Woolworths indirectly by having the misfortune to be a member of an industry super fund.
With respect you really need to have somebody review your work before publication. There are just too many words missing & other silly mistakes. Otherwise I agree with everything you said.
Woolies and Qantas need to make changes to their respective boards. It’s an old fashion notion but I thought boards made decisions in the best interests of the company they direct.
Thanks for the overview. And though my English grammar and typos are much worse than yours, it pains me when academics find their only contribution to communicating ideally in their eyes, which says a lot for the nitpickers.
Back to the subject, I agree big business, the dear old directors suddenly Don't want their fellows associated and family to think they are not woke or care for the world. Many of us care for the world, but the woke are so sleepy they ignore that wind solar are not going to fill the energy any time soon. and so it goes on, big business supporting the yes campaign, and and staying on side with that wish. Albo contribution to price gouching eats into free market but he say nothing about Farmers our suppliers who have been screwed big time by all major groups .
Albo has to be careful on profit for if it is taken, and you have 30% tax revenue reduction, and God willing your pay might not be in the ban next week. That political tax deduction so many work people should be cranky about as its $45k less tax the Aust gets.These are facts of more importance to the country, but they show T he woke have no idea where Australians in come arrives from.
If Aust Day awards were put in hands of local MHR then we might see a return on our investment and bring people closer to Feds who we feed/.
Lets understand business, or more specifically a certain grouping of big business in Australia. Essentially they are commercial prostitutes. They are simply looking to cut a deal, any deal and at any price to advance their commercial interests. This fact of behaviour is well known to the Left, to unions and to the Labor Party. What these modern Left groups offer to the commercial 'prostitute' business sector is deals, deals that will give the members of that business sector a leg up over competitors. In playing this deal-making game the Left etc effectively implement a form of socialism. Its not socialism where the state owns the means of production. But its a situation where the Left etc Establishment, micro manage the 'prostitute' business sector therefore 'managing' the economy and society to their own liking. Its a form of monopoly delivery to those businesses that toe the line. Who wins? The insiders! Who loses? Everyone else. Has Dutton woken up to this? Perhaps John Roskam, you are indicating that he has.
Great comment, Ken - you have nailed the true nature of how modern ‘Marxist-Socialism’ now manifests. For the Green-Left it is all about control - control of all society, not just the economy. The boards of directors of the big corporates in Australia appear to be people without any ethical underpinnings. Their Australia Day behaviour Is contemptible. They seem to be prepared to make any sort of Faustian bargain with the Green-Left to advance their predatory business models. A pox on all their houses!
Reading all this makes me wonder whether we can't set up a stall or two selling Australia Day merchandise outside Woolies stores for all those shoppers denied the ability to get the gear because of the silly virtue signalling top managers at monopoly supermarket chain. I can hear the loud hailer now enticing best buys for the "little guy" in Aussie thongs and T-shirts. Supermarket executives pay extra.!Great pictures for the media and gets the message across.
Being passive and mild about the culture war has gotten us to precisely where we are. Its time to take the gloves off. Every company that dares to wade into lefto-wokist agendas needs to be Bud-Lighted. The first few times will show the rest. I cant believe what I am seeing - Aus was pretty muscularly patriotic when I came here in 1988 from commie-land. A generation of self-haters was brought up since. Look up John Birmingham's views about Aus day, I used to think he was the good Aussie larrikin not a useful idiot.
Excellent points raised. I remember seeing posters Woolworths produced in 1988 for the Bicentenary celebrations with the Australian Flag and Australian history very proudly displayed (you can still find them online). How our corporate culture has declined!
Excellent article. This paragraph speaks volumes about the delusional lunacy of the virtue signallers and the woke mindset. It also made my day.
‘We laughed at The North Face clothing company when it was criticised by the boss of an oil company who was refused permission to put his firm's logo on North Face jackets, because North Face didn't want to be associated with 'fossil fuels'. He wrote to The North Face and told them something they may not have known - 'your jackets are made from oil and gas products.'
Further to my earlier comment about setting up stalls for Aussie day merch outside Woolies stores, I also like the idea of a special Woolworths shareholder discount for Aussie Day merch for anyone who is a Woolworths shareholder, or who owns Woolworths indirectly by having the misfortune to be a member of an industry super fund.
John,
With respect you really need to have somebody review your work before publication. There are just too many words missing & other silly mistakes. Otherwise I agree with everything you said.
Woolies and Qantas need to make changes to their respective boards. It’s an old fashion notion but I thought boards made decisions in the best interests of the company they direct.
Thanks for the overview. And though my English grammar and typos are much worse than yours, it pains me when academics find their only contribution to communicating ideally in their eyes, which says a lot for the nitpickers.
Back to the subject, I agree big business, the dear old directors suddenly Don't want their fellows associated and family to think they are not woke or care for the world. Many of us care for the world, but the woke are so sleepy they ignore that wind solar are not going to fill the energy any time soon. and so it goes on, big business supporting the yes campaign, and and staying on side with that wish. Albo contribution to price gouching eats into free market but he say nothing about Farmers our suppliers who have been screwed big time by all major groups .
Albo has to be careful on profit for if it is taken, and you have 30% tax revenue reduction, and God willing your pay might not be in the ban next week. That political tax deduction so many work people should be cranky about as its $45k less tax the Aust gets.These are facts of more importance to the country, but they show T he woke have no idea where Australians in come arrives from.
If Aust Day awards were put in hands of local MHR then we might see a return on our investment and bring people closer to Feds who we feed/.
Thanks Grammarly, Jeff I hope you get my drift ,