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Who needs elections when you’ve got the AWU?

26 Nov 05:55am

Filed under: Elections, Mike Rann, Paul Howes, Wayne Hanson

Elections are an expensive business. The last federal poll cost $170 million. That’s a lot of school books and hospital supplies. But if the cost of elections troubles you, despair not as relief is at hand.

This is Wayne Hanson and he'd really like a new Premier. Photo: Lindsay Moller

Who needs elections anyway when you’ve got the Australian Workers Union?

For the second time in six months this union is kindly offering to step in on behalf of the voters – or more accurately, instead of the voters – to take over the hiring and firing a democratically elected government leader.

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hot tub political machine says:

01:09pm | 29/11/10

Exactly acotrel. I think the level of naievety about how both Labor and Liberal are funded by “groups” or “unions” or “chambers of commerce” or whatever you want to call these collectives is so absurd it must be contrived. This all boils down to “shock horror” - like minded people… Read more »
Woza says:

10:14am | 28/11/10

HAHA! Seriously? Wow, I must have been in Bizarro Australia where all the adds I saw were funded by Liberal showing union thugs leaning on dressmakers…..... Read more »

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