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	Lateline - 12/10/2004: Labor must consider future direction, says Tanner
		LINDSAY TANNER: Well, there's no guarantee that that would be the case anyway, but it's not ultimately about the 1 million Australians or thereabouts who own shares in Telstra, although their interests need to be respected.
		LINDSAY TANNER: It's not going to be easy, but being in the Labor Party we've had a bit of experience of that in the past unfortunately, so we're a pretty resilient outfit.
		LINDSAY TANNER: I believe very strongly that we have to be the party of competition, the open international economy integrating into the world economy with an appropriate industrial relations framework and safety net, and the party of productivity, the party of economic growth, the party of ensuring that people get economic opportunity.
	www.abc.net.au /lateline/content/2004/s1218646.htm (1729 words)

	Lindsay Tanner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lindsay James Tanner (born 24 April 1956), Australian politician, has been a Labor member of the Australian House of Representatives since March 1993, representing the Division of Melbourne, Victoria.
		Tanner has been a prominent member of the party's Socialist Left faction, and is often referred to in the media as the "social conscience" of the Labor Party.
		In October 2004, in the aftermath of Labor's loss in the federal election, Tanner was thought to be a candidate for the position of Shadow Treasurer, vacated by Simon Crean.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lindsay_Tanner (421 words)

	Interview with Shadow Community Relations Minister
		Lindsay Tanner: Not necessarily legislate directly, but the thing that people have to understand when they rant about the nanny state and governments interfering in personal lives is that governments are there already.
		Lindsay Tanner: There are a number of themes I will be pursuing, the first of which will be the issue of mentoring.
		Lindsay Tanner: It does have to invest somewhere, but where it should be investing is in its primary activities, its primary responsibilities, which is where it makes its money.
	www.seven.com.au /sundaysunrise/politics_040222_tanner (2417 words)

	Tanner underplays negative aspects of globalising capitalism
		Lindsay’s book is well researched and referenced and contains proposals about a number of progressive attitudes and policy initiatives.
		Lindsay sees "derivatives" only as good because they "spread risk" among speculators, not recognising the far greater risk that they help spread to millions of people.
		I likewise think that Lindsay is altogether too kind to the intentions and likely consequences, should it succeed, of the thrust to the Multilateral Agreement on Investment, which would strengthen the power of capital over nations and national governments, without any offsetting increments to the power of the people.
	www.search.org.au /reviews/tanner.html (558 words)

	Lateline - 30/11/2005: Labor maintains pressure over RBA appointment
		LINDSAY TANNER: I'd have reservations about heading down that path but, clearly, we're going to have to have a look at the process of appointing members of the Reserve Bank board.
		LINDSAY TANNER: Well, you might recall, of course, that it was that Government which also privatised the Qantas Board and no longer had the capacity to appoint members of the Qantas Board.
		LINDSAY TANNER: Well, it has been suggested that Ron Walker may well be appointed and he, of course, is the ultimate Liberal Party mate.
	www.abc.net.au /lateline/content/2005/s1520356.htm (1209 words)

	Lindsay Tanner:
		Shadow Communications Minister Lindsay Tanner has spent the last 20 years working within the political sphere, but it was at the age of 22 that he first came to the attention of Australia penning a book on the environmental degradation.
		LINDSAY TANNER: Not totally, because sometimes there are happy coincidences where I can attend things like community festivals where there are lots of things for kids.
		LINDSAY TANNER: Well, it is difficult, but it's important to understand that of course it's not only politicians.
	www.abc.net.au /gnt/people/Transcripts/s952991.htm (1343 words)

	Polemica: From the building society to the learning society... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The gist of Tanner's speech was thus that incerasingly, government's role is to ensure that all people in society have the best possible social opportunities to make the most of life through education.
		Tanner likened government's future role as to that of the coach of a football team.
		Tanner is to be praised for presenting his worldview in a way that I think made quite a strong impression on many of the right-wing econocrats present.
	www.wsacaucus.org /archives/2006/03/lindsay_tanner.html (655 words)

	Lindsay Tanner drifts further into a policy void
		Mr Tanner's musings on social engineering are no substitute for the hard yards of policy analysis and development - areas in which he is clearly uninterested, judging from his abysmal performance as Labor's communications spokesman.
		Mr Tanner spent years flirting with a single policy - structural separation of Telstra - but was too lazy to do the detailed work required to support this radical proposal.
		Mr Tanner's claims that "relationships should move to the front of our thinking in politics and public policy" should prompt him to do more work on his relationship with Simon Crean, which has been in famously poor shape for many months.
	www.dcita.gov.au /Article/0,,0_4-2_4008-4_116682,00.html (370 words)

	Political Corrections with Margo Kingston - The Northern Rivers Echo Newspaper, Lismore
		The ALP's Lindsay Tanner delivered a speech to Parliament on the issue last week trying to get some decent grounds rules for the debate to follow.
		Tanner advises us all not to let proponents of Australia going nuclear railroad the debate by forcing the no advocates to defend their position.
		For example, Lindsay pointed out that there is some tension, to say the least, between Australia going nuclear and maintaining its brown coal exports.
	www.echonews.com /1126/politics.html (890 words)

	Interview: Lindsay Tanner
		LINDSAY TANNER: I think my concerns have actually been vindicated, that the tone of the discussion about whether we should try and appeal more to this group, or try and distance ourselves from that group, or have better advertising, or candidates making better phone calls.
		LINDSAY TANNER: I think for example the idea that Simon Crean put forward of a future fund and dealing with the looming problem of the aging population, the pressure on the federal budget was contradicted by Medicare Gold, which would add a very substantial burden to future federal budgets.
		LINDSAY TANNER: Laurie, I intend to talk about issues as a member of the Federal Parliamentary Labor Party I'm entitled to put a point of view, particularly on behalf of my electorate, and also in areas that I'm interested in.
	sunday.ninemsn.com.au /sunday/political_transcripts/article_1697.asp?s=1 (3366 words)

	Review of Lindsay Tanner's Open Australia, by Andy Blunden
		Before accepting nomination for the safe ALP seat of Melbourne, Lindsay Tanner built one of the biggest, liveliest and most open and democratic trade union rank-and-file groups in the country.
		Unfortunately, the book is less coherent than it could be, because, as a serving ALP politician, Tanner feels obliged to make his points, not only by contrast to an “old” view (supported by no-one) but also in opposition to positions of factional and party opponents, even when his own policy is indistinguishable.
		Lindsay Tanner has chosen instead to be an advocate for globalised capitalism, to persuade us that There Is No Alternative, and that what is good for business is good for government, good for unions and good for everyone.
	home.mira.net /~andy/works/tanner.htm (1452 words)

	Green Left - Reinventing the Labor Party
		Tanner's treatment of history is no better than his handling of the present.
		What Tanner attempts to do here is to blame the social movements of the '60s for many of the problems created by capitalism in the '90s.
		Tanner does his best to insist that “more competitive” doesn't mean just lower wages and more down-sizing by writing profusely about the importance of education, but it's not very convincing -- he is constrained, after all, by what the last ALP government did to make tertiary education less accessible.
	www.greenleft.org.au /back/1999/350/350p21.htm (1548 words)

	Australian Labor Party: Lindsay Tanner - Member for Melbourne
		From 1982 to 1985, Lindsay was an articled clerk and solicitor with Holding Redlich.
		In 1993, Lindsay was elected Member for Melbourne.
		Lindsay was re-elected to the Shadow Ministry on 22 November 2001.
	www.alp.org.au /people/vic/tanner_lindsay.php (328 words)

	Henry Thornton - Labor`s flawed fightback
		Tanner writes as a man who as an employer has had to sack people, cop unfair dismissal claims and negotiate wages and conditions with his staff.
		Tanner makes the case for "some balance and fairness in the employment relationship." This is something we would all agree with, certainly John Howard would agree with it.
		Tanner makes another point in his article, one that in my mind is far more powerful.
	www.henrythornton.com /article.asp?article_id=3437 (788 words)

	Polemica: Upcoming event: Lindsay Tanner on The Role of the State in the 21st Century (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Tanner is left-wing factionally speaking of course, but I think you have a point there.
		Posted by: mitchell at February 28, 2006 10:39 PM dont kid yourself that Tanner is a leftie (its such a tored old way of looking at the political world).
		I was Pres of the Kensington Branch in 2000 when he Tanner presented his answer to the continual question of what is different between Libs and Labs - it was his obsfucation, and total inability to offer anything more than some hazy definitiion of community that finally convinced me that the ALP was stuffed.
	www.wsacaucus.org /archives/2006/02/upcoming_event.html (397 words)

	ARPA: Man discovers the obvious!
		Tanner can also be criticised for oversimplifying the problems of the current zeitgeist of self-interest.
		Rights movements are not innocent of individual self-serving, but Tanner ignores their major push from the 60s for strongly collective solutions—perhaps sometimes misplaced—for the woes of society, not just of individual lives.
		Tanner frames his experiences and concerns carefully to avoid a gender conflict model, but it feels as though gender conflict is just below the surface.
	www.australianreview.net /digest/2003/10/cox.html (1923 words)

	Meeting with Lindsay Tanner, shadow minister for communications — Friends of the ABC
		Our first question to Lindsay Tanner was directed at the level of support for public broadcasting generally, and for the ABC in particular, which the ALP had outlined before the last election.
		Lindsay Tanner threw out a challenge to Friends of the ABC to identify the sorts of improvements which extra funding would make possible.
		Perhaps next time we meet, FABC should be tackling Lindsay Tanner on what proposals he has developed to strengthen the ABC's capacity to survive the digital age.
	friendsoftheabc.org /tannermeet.htm (554 words)

	Fictionwise eBooks: Heart of Gold by Rebecca Goings
		Lindsay wasn't about to make her affections known, as she firmly believed a man should first ask permission from her father to court her, and she desperately wanted Bryson to ask on his own.
		Lindsay's waist length chocolate brown hair was simply pulled back from her face by a yellow ribbon that matched her light and airy yellow dress.
		Lindsay was nineteen years old, almost twenty, and never once had she been courted by a man. She was beginning to think she never would be.
	www.fictionwise.com /ebooks/eBook34890.htm (2063 words)

	Lindsay Tanner on the role and tasks of the state at Larvatus Prodeo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Lindsay Tanner on the role and tasks of the state at Larvatus Prodeo
		Lindsay Tanner on the role and tasks of the state
		Tanner has some good stuff in his lecture about such things as the craziness of much regulation (using the example of the reams of paper we now get from banks and financial institutions) and the facilitation of learning.
	larvatusprodeo.net /2006/03/09/lindsay-tanner-on-the-role-and-tasks-of-the-state (1638 words)

	Tanner: Globalization
		Tanner is yet another 'intellectual' who has uncritically accepted, learned by heart and now constantly recites the litany of globalist dogma: globalization is inevitable; any alternative is nostalgia; governments must re-define their role as 'facilitators', the nation state is gone; and Australia needs significantly higher migration.
		Tanner would do well to open his mind and see that his 'inevitable' globalization is nothing of the sort.
		Commenting on the social revolution of the sixties Tanner wrote: "It is time for those of us who fought, and mostly won, the liberation battles of the 60s and 70s to confront the many negative social consequences that have flowed from the immense social upheavals of that period.
	www.gwb.com.au /gwb/news/feitz/f1302.htm (2214 words)

	Green Left - Issues: What's `new' in Labor's policy debate?
		Lindsay Tanner, member for Melbourne, confirmed this in 1995 when he said, “The right has absorbed the left's social agenda and the left is gradually absorbing the right's economic agenda”.
		Tanner has argued that some government entities should be privatised if their “products are not used by everyone”.
		While Tanner and Latham are in different factions of the ALP, and while their argumentation on some issues may differ, in the end they both agree that governments must implement neo-liberal austerity to keep Australia “competitive” within the globalised economy.
	www.greenleft.org.au /back/1998/343/343p9.htm (1570 words)

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		SHADOW FINANCE MINISTER LINDSAY TANNER: What I'm focused on and what we all should be focused on is building the strongest possible policy alternative and making sure that we're going to build a better country.
		Well, Mr Tanner, Labor's outraged as are the major papers and yet all the opinion polls have John Howard streets ahead of Kim Beazley.
		LINDSAY TANNER: The opinion polls actually show Labor in front, Paul, and I think this issue is having some impact, but ultimately there's a core principle involved here.
	www.ten.com.au /library/documents/MTP160465.doc (3625 words)

	Lindsay Tanner Proposes Reforms To The ALP [February 5, 2002]
		Tanner argues that the ALP's internal culture is characterised by "Byzantine structures, unfamiliar jargon, exclusionary attitudes and an atmosphere of secrecy".
		Tanner argues that Australian society "has fragmented beyond recognition, trade union membership has shrunk, political issues have become more complex and specialised, more serious political alternatives are competing with Labor, and volunteer political activity has to compete with an infinitely wider range of choices for use of discretionary time."
		Tanner argues that "given the tiny pool from whence they emerge, the overall level of quality of our candidates is surprisingly high." Nevertheless, he acknowledges the problem of a "narrowing of occupational background and life experience of Labor MPs".
	www.australianpolitics.com /news/2002/02-02-05a.shtml (854 words)

	Disambiguation Blog: Lindsay Tanner: Societies of Control (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		This is not from an academic essay but a speech delivered by Australian Labor Party Shadow Minister for Finance, Lindsay Tanner.
		Tanner said something very intersting when interviewed for the ABC's current affairs show Lateline after the speech.
		It was if Tanner had read Deleuze's "Postscript on Societies of Control" and condensed part of it into an example of the Australian situation.
	glenfuller.blogspot.com /2006/03/lindsay-tanner-societies-of-control.html (1004 words)

	Meeting with Lindsay Tanner — Friends of the ABC
		As both Lindsay Tanner and Mark Latham have made statements during this year to the effect that the ALP will significantly increase funding to the ABC, the question is when will the increase be announced?
		Tanner explained that the timing of the announcement is not his province, and that it has been complicated by the implications of the passage of the US Free Trade Agreement legislation.
		Tanner's media statements about the pre-election monitoring of ABC coverage, and about the restricted access to ABC archival material, and noted that he tied both issues to a politicised Board.
	friendsoftheabc.org /tannermeet (500 words)

	Labor to close loophole on cash for comment - National - www.smh.com.au
		The Opposition's communications spokesman, Lindsay Tanner, yesterday pledged to close the loophole allowing such deals and also said he would prohibit Telstra from engaging radio personalities in such undeclared advertising.
		Mr Tanner yesterday said a Labor government would put a stop to the cash-for-comment arrangements proposed by Telstra to station 2GB because it had the potential to undermine democracy.
		Describing Jones as "a puffed-up, two-bit bully", Mr Tanner called on elected politicians to take a stand against the broadcaster, whom he suspected was a "substantial influence in political debate in Sydney".
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2004/05/02/1083436476658.html (589 words)

	Lindsay Tanner MP - Federal Member for Melbourne Electorate
		Lindsay is currently the Shadow Minister for Finance.
		Medibank Private - Julia Gillard and Lindsay Tanner, Media Release - This is a sell out by the Howard Government of Medibank Private members and all Australians.
		Lindsay questions John Howard on the remuneration package of Telstra CEO Mr Trujillo during question time Monday the 9th of October.
	www.lindsaytanner.com (333 words)

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		LINDSAY TANNER: Paul, if you've been in Opposition for a fair while, as we have, you get to a point where you no longer have former senior ministers in leadership roles in your party, and that's just a product of being in Opposition for quite a time.
		LINDSAY TANNER: We believe it's bad for competition in telecommunications and in media, for Telstra to be part-owner of Foxtel, and the ACCC agrees with us.
		Lindsay Tanner is also called "the shadow minister for hugs and kisses".
	www.ten.com.au /library/documents/MTP11040.doc (3768 words)

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