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Election review finds unions had wrong slogan for right message

The Guardian

· www.theguardian.com

Guardian Australia report on the ACTU's secretive review of its 2019 federal election campaign, finding the union movement had the right policy ideas but the wrong slogan.

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Quoted from this source 6 passages

  • “arguing that changes to labour law will be a decades-long project and could not have been achieved in one electoral cycle regardless of the outcome”

  • “the 2019 campaign talked about "the right issues at the right time" but questioned whether Change the Rules was "a vague solution"”

  • “it concluded that the slogan calling for broad systemic change was not sharp enough to cut through in the election campaign”

  • “criticised the campaign as "nebulous" and lamented that targeting blue-ribbon seats was a "hubristic vanity project"”

  • “the charge that it failed to eject the Morrison government despite spending between $17m and $25m”

  • “it had the right policy ideas but the wrong slogan”

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