Unions and the ALP: dysfunctional or recoverable?

I wrote a piece on this subject for ABC Unleashed, published on thursday. The text is available here. I also wrote a paper for last year's Australian Political Science Association on the unions-ALP relationship using some of the research for my phd (due for submission in August). That paper is available here. You can also read my review of Rodney Cavalier's Power Politics here.

More recently I have done two pieces for the conversation looking at Paul Howes in the context of a changing unions-ALP relationship - here and here.