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Issue No. 276 | 12 August 2005 |
The Power of One
Interview: On Holiday Unions: One Day Longer Industrial: Never Mind the Bollocks Politics: Spun Out Economics: If the Grog Don't Get You .... History: Taking a Stand International: The Split Legal: Pushing the Friendship Poetry: Simple Subtractions Review: Sydney Trashed
Sick Days Get Hadgkiss Sniffing Fun Guy Skips Work, Docks Staff Nurse Launches Neighbourhood Alert Feds: Inconsistency �Not Inconsistent� PacNat Troops Won't Be Railroaded
Parliament The Soapbox The Locker Room International Postcard
Govt Has No Case Logon to IR Ears and Minds Howard on the Couch Which Bank? Kevin the Tool Man Tom On Safety
Labor Council of NSW |
Letters to the Editor Kevin the Tool Man
Please make Kevin Andrews Tool of the Week This poorly disguised fascist has set new heights in the pursuit of hypocrisy. Hiding behind a mild exterior, one need not look far (his own department) to find the reality of his Industrial Relations agenda is merely a return to the laissez faire policy of uncontrolled capitalism that enslaved working Australians to a substandard existence. By forcing his department's staff onto individual contracts with reduced awards and less security he has shown the Australian public the cruel inequitable reality of his legislation that is set to destroy all fairness in the system that our workers have spent over 100 years fighting to be established. His argument, that Australia needs to innovate to compete with the international market, ridicules the statistics that show unemployment at a 28-year low, record job opportunities and sustained economic growth. Is he talking about the same country? Although his proposals have come under sustained attack from academics nationwide and every other political party (including Nationals senator Barnaby Joyce who, lets hope, takes a moral stand for rural Australia and its workers), Kevin continues to service the lower back region of the prime minister's person in his merciless destruction of job security and the family unit. He has tried to come across as a good 'Christian', however this has severely backfired since every major church in Australia has openly condemned the IR proposals as flawed. His only supporters are the very businesses that hope to exploit and undermine the 85 per cent plus of Australians that will be affected. Sadly however this absolute tool has only been able to progress his neo-fascist ideology because of the widespread political apathy and ignorance of the Australian electorate that elected this neo-conservative regime. Next time, hopefully, those of us that have a soul will realise that all that the (extremely UN)liberal party brings to this country is injustice, inequality and immorality. Please make this tool a TOOL OF THE WEEK (if you have already do it again, you know you want to)! Daniel Sharp NSW
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