Australian Left Review

Article Title

Briefings: Inside Left: Higher Logic

Authors

David Burchell

Abstract

Now that the privatisation issue has been (perhaps temporarily) withdrawn from the market, the chief item of controversy at the Federal ALP Conference in early June is clearly going to be the government's latest whizz-bang product - the socalled "graduate tax" on tertiary education graduates. And while it's not an issue likely to have the labour movement rank-and-file in the same happy state of cross-factional unity as privatisation, it may yet prove to be a serious liability for both party and government.