Sunday preselection snippets

Further dispatches to keep the ball rolling until the glorious day when paged comments return:

• Nicole Hasham of the Illawarra Mercury reports on possible successor to Liberal MP Joanna Gash in the southern NSW seat of Gilmore. The front-runner is said to be Shoalhaven deputy mayor Andrew Guile, a one-time staffer to Gash who is evidently not on good terms with his former employer. According to the report, the South Coast Register published a letter from Gash in August which criticised Guile for sharing a $1080 meal with other councillors at a Sydney restaurants at which various preselections were said to be discussed, including her own. Also named as a possible contender is Gash’s “close Liberal associate” Clive Brooks, who “owns South Nowra business Great Southern Motorcycles”.

• The Daily Telegraph reports Craig Laundy, “general manager of his father Arthur’s $500 million hotel empire”, has Tony Abbott’s backing for preselection in the central western Sydney seat of Reid. According to the report, “a senior Liberal source said Mr Laundy had been to see Mr Abbott, party president Arthur Sinodinos, state director Mark Neeham and moderate faction leader Michael Photios about his run for the seat”. He may face opposition in the shape of Dai Le, ABC Radio National producer and two-time state candidate for Cabramatta.

• Christian Kerr and Lauren Wilson of The Australian report that some in the Nationals camp hope the party might be able to poach the New South Wales seat of Hume from the Liberals if Alby Schultz retires as expected at the next election, by fielding Senator Fiona Nash as their candidate. One virtue of the plan is said to be that Nash is seen as “a possible party leader, a more stable alternative to (Barnaby) Joyce”.

• Similarly, the WA Nationals are said to be hopeful of winning Durack if the current Liberal member Barry Haase does not contest the next election, “as many predict”.

Author: William Bowe

William Bowe is a Perth-based election analyst and occasional teacher of political science. His blog, The Poll Bludger, has existed in one form or another since 2004, and is one of the most heavily trafficked websites on Australian politics.

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  2. Methinks tough guy is starting to realise just how powerful social media can be.
    [keegansard Keegan Sard
    I have learnt a lot from this experience and i will tone down my rhetoric and focus more on facts. ]
    All too late though.
    [@Dan_Gulberry Citizen Dan
    @keegansard Way too late for that. You’re now famous. ]

  5. [

    gordongrahamGordon Graham

    Ian Hanke of the HR Nicholls society blasts Tony Abbott in the AFR for not advocating a deregulatory IR agenda … it begins! #auspol

    1 minute agoFavoriteRetweetReply]

  6. [LNPInsider LNP Insider
    by StGusface
    If you are disgusted by @keegansard let his employer know – publicworks.qld.gov.au/contacts/Pages… address to Director-General Natalie MacDonald]

    For those who think inciting people to bash unionists and calling dark-skinned members of the CHOGM meetings “coons” is completely unacceptable.

  9. Well, one thing that can be said for FWA is that they will put the time in at short notice when needed. I’d think their productivity is higher than Qantas managements.

  12. [Daily Telegraph reporting “All it would have taken to avoid lockout was for Gillard to declare all industrial action illegal”.]

    Also known as the Soviet solution to workplace management.

  13. [The media will eventually portray this as not as Qantas versus the FWA, but as Business versus Gillard (who created the FWA).

    If this takes, then any failing of the FWA will be a direct failing of Gillard, or at least represented as such.

    This could morph into a direct attack on the Prime Minister and her capabilities.

    Just watch it unfold.]

    Makes you wonder why parts of media are so obsessed with bringing her down, doesn’t it? 😉

  15. I do not know who or which Keegan Sard this is on Twitter. I assume there may be more than one on the planet so I actually wrong to target any particular Keegan Sards employer. Thy social media debates should stay on social media, lest someone serve thee the same dinner,

  21. oops – bit late now! Oh well, it’s hardly a common name and my comment was not impolite. (Didn’t mention moron in email. 🙂 )

  24. As much as I dislike the comments made by Keegan Sard on Twitter, I think it is quite wrong to ask people to try to get someone’s employment ceased because of a comment on Twitter, unless it is directly related to that employment.

    This is sounding an episode of Gunsmoke with the mob outside the Marshall’s office wanting to take matters into their own hands.

  25. [Puff, the Magic Dragon.

    Posted Monday, October 31, 2011 at 12:51 am | Permalink

    As much as I dislike the comments made by Keegan Sard on Twitter, I think it is quite wrong to ask people to try to get someone’s employment ceased because of a comment on Twitter, unless it is directly related to that employment.

    This is sounding an episode of Gunsmoke with the mob outside the Marshall’s office wanting to take matters into their own hands.
    ]

    He made comments which weere Racisty and incitement to Violence.

    and thus against tghe law.

  30. Frank,
    Then that is for the law to address, not for people here to take retributive action by trying to get some-one sacked. I find the comments abhorrent but unless he holds an office that is concerned with those issues, so is targetting a person’s employment. If he is the local council’s social inclusion officer, then there is a case, but if he paints the park benches, it is not relevant.

  33. [Puff, the Magic Dragon.

    Posted Monday, October 31, 2011 at 12:59 am | Permalink

    Frank,
    Then that is for the law to address, not for people here to take retributive action by trying to get some-one sacked. I find the comments abhorrent but unless he holds an office that is concerned with those issues, so is targetting a person’s employment. If he is the local council’s social inclusion officer, then there is a case, but if he paints the park benches, it is not relevant.
    ]

    Bulldust.

  34. Frank,
    It may be bulldust to you but not to me. If he was sacked because of the emails he would have every right to go for unfair dismissal. I do not know what the outcome might be, but he could mount a case for it. Fight the battles in the social media, not in some-one’s employment, especially when no-one can be certain of whom anyone on Twitter really is.

  35. [Puff, the Magic Dragon.

    Posted Monday, October 31, 2011 at 1:09 am | Permalink

    Frank,
    It may be bulldust to you but not to me. If he was sacked because of the emails he would have every right to go for unfair dismissal. I do not know what the outcome might be, but he could mount a case for it. Fight the battles in the social media, not in some-one’s employment, especially when no-one can be certain of whom anyone on Twitter really is.
    ]
    Twitter is no different tob email.

    He has to go.

  36. [Fight the battles in the social media, not in some-one’s employment, especially when no-one can be certain of whom anyone on Twitter really is.]

    If you can’t be certain of who anyone on Twitter really is, how do you then propose to fight your battles there?

  37. [

    esseeeayeennSéan Hawkes

    So Alan Joyce tried to phone @JuliaGillard during CHOGM and wondered why she wouldn’t answer? Disingenuousness, thou name art Joyce. #qantas

    6 minutes agoFavoriteRetweetReply]

  38. On an admittedly incomplete reading of events, it seems to me the application by the Government on Friday to FWA for suspension orders to be granted seems to have had quite a bit to do with the decision to lock out workers. Qantas obviously do not want a suspension. They want termination of industrial action. If they don’t get termination, they are essentially saying Qantas will be closed. Since no court will compel a corporation to carry on business against its will, Qantas are really saying “Allow us to re-structure our workforce without the threat of industrial action, or we will close.”

    This raises legal questions about the limits to the exercise of industrial power by unions and about the discretion of business owners in the engagement, payment and deployment of their labour force. The competitive landscape also reflects the development of enterprise bargaining rather than economy-wide or occupation-wide collective bargaining. Qantas is at a cost disadvantage compared with other carriers with whom it has to compete. If all other carriers were paying the same as Qantas, presumably they would not face the same pressures on their margins.

    It also says a lot about what an absolutely lousy business aviation can be and what the management dynamics are. Airlines operate in environments in which they have very little control over the factors that influence their viability. Workforce management – especially the performance, costs and motivation of the employees – has to be one the very few things they could hope to actively manage. In a service industry, successful labour force management and the development of a positive workplace culture are critical to organizational performance. And yet, workforce management is obviously all at cross-purposes inside Qantas.

    That is to say, the brand is not sustainable within the status quo. No wonder things are falling apart.

  39. Just to make it clear, I am not pro-Qantas. I could not care less about them and avoid them wherever possible because of their arrogant mistreatment of their customers.

  40. Frank,
    Actually, no he doesn’t have to go by your pronouncement. If everyone who posted inappropriate stuff on social media, even abhorrent views, lost their jobs there would be a lot of people out of work in this country.

    Targetting employment like that is wrong, unless it is directly relevant to the office held.

  41. [Puff, the Magic Dragon.

    Posted Monday, October 31, 2011 at 1:21 am | Permalink

    Frank,
    Actually, no he doesn’t have to go by your pronouncement. If everyone who posted inappropriate stuff on social media, even abhorrent views, lost their jobs there would be a lot of people out of work in this country.

    Targetting employment like that is wrong, unless it is directly relevant to the office held.
    ]

    Defend the indefensible.

  43. [Targetting employment like that is wrong, unless it is directly relevant to the office held.]

    Inciting violence and making racist slurs online is directly relevant to any employer.

  46. Ahh the bright minds of Occupy “Whatever”

    [Imlay1992Imlay

    if FWA halts TWU strike against qantas without pay negotiations itll be a direct hit to workers rights & democracy #auspol #occupymelbourne

    1 minute agoFavoriteRetweetReply]

  47. [Puff, the Magic Dragon.
    Posted Monday, October 31, 2011 at 1:21 am | Permalink

    Frank,
    Actually, no he doesn’t have to go by your pronouncement. If everyone who posted inappropriate stuff on social media, even abhorrent views, lost their jobs there would be a lot of people out of work in this country.

    Targetting employment like that is wrong, unless it is directly relevant to the office held.]

    With you 100%, puff

  49. [briefly

    Posted Monday, October 31, 2011 at 1:28 am | Permalink

    Puff, the Magic Dragon.
    Posted Monday, October 31, 2011 at 1:21 am | Permalink

    Frank,
    Actually, no he doesn’t have to go by your pronouncement. If everyone who posted inappropriate stuff on social media, even abhorrent views, lost their jobs there would be a lot of people out of work in this country.

    Targetting employment like that is wrong, unless it is directly relevant to the office held.

    With you 100%, puff
    ]
    Enjoy being in the minority 🙂

  50. [Puff, the Magic Dragon.

    Posted Monday, October 31, 2011 at 1:29 am | Permalink

    Dan,
    To the police.

    Drake,
    Depends on the job.

    Frank.
    You have no idea what I am talking about
    ]

    Neither do you it seems.

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