VSU - Possible temporary reprieve
Today's newspapers have mentioned that Senator Barnaby Joyce of Queensland intends to cross the floor in regard to the Howard Government's Voluntary Student Unionism (VSU) laws unless there was some kind of compromise to ensure that essential services such as sporting facilities and childcare were maintained. It was also raised that legislation to deprive the student body of their political voice may not come into effect next year, in effect giving the students a one year reprieve.
I remain skeptical, although Senator Joyce did cross the floor last night, the first government senator to do so since the 80s. After all, he's still a card-carrying member of Evil and like Telstra, it could be easy for Howard, Sophie P et al to stitch up a crummy deal that would see the VSU legislation passed virtually intact. It does seem like the Reactionary Forces do want the IR "reforms" as a priority rather than VSU though, so there is a chance that compulsory student unionism may survive in 2006.
On the other hand, it would be wrong for any of us to go off our guard just because we might be handed this temporary stay of disembowelment. We must continue to lobby Senator Joyce to support the existing system to the fullest extent possible; while he is a foul and beastly dinosaur when it comes to social issues, we cannot afford to let our own ideologies and dogma get in the way of negotiating with the tiger for our very lives. We are on hard times and unpalatable liaisons are a fact of life.
posted by Max Soy @ 5:30 AM
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