Archive for March 3rd, 2015
Fight for our rights March 4
Posted by John, March 3rd, 2015 - under Resistance, Union rights, Unions.
Tags: Fighting back
Comments: none
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The McClure review: welfare on the cheap.
Posted by John, March 3rd, 2015 - under McClure review, Social services, Welfare payments, Welfare reform.
Comments: 4
Simone White in Red Flag reports on the McClure welfare review and concludes it is all about welfare on the cheap. Here is part of what she says:
The McClure review of the welfare system, commissioned by the government and last week handed down to social services minister Scott Morrison, provides the architecture for a very lean and very mean welfare system. “A new system for better-employment and social outcomes” would more aptly be named, “Sink or swim: a guide to how you don’t deserve a life jacket”.
Labor’s ‘crackdown’ on tax avoidance: Shorten fiddles and revenue burns
Posted by John, March 3rd, 2015 - under Tax, Tax avoidance.
Tags: ALP, Australian Labor Party, Big business, Bill Shorten
Comments: 3
Labor’s tax avoidance crack down statement was the old pea and thimble trick. It wants to give the impression of doing something about big business tax avoidance (always a popular issue among ordinary workers) without really frightening the big business horses. Pathetic is the word that comes to mind.