The 12th general elections has just been concluded (March8 2008). The overwhelming support for the opposition seem to suggest that the ethnic model of politics of the ruling front since independence has come to an end. A new political model is emerging.

Making sense of being a Malaysian and an Indian Malaysian.

The social agenda of Malaysian national policies since the New Economic Policy bear implicit as well as direct references to creating a ‘caring society’. For labour, however, the situation appears to show a movement away from a caring society to ‘high social risk society’, and an unjust one.