Archive for 'Jenny Macklin'
How the poor are shunted into deeper poverty just for political capital
Posted by John, January 3rd, 2013 - under Jenny Macklin, Labor Party, Neoliberalism, Single mothers, Single parent payment, The Age, The dole.
Tags: Australian Labor Party
Comments: 27
Yours truly in today’s The Age on Jenny Macklin, the dole and driving single Mums into more poverty. I argue we need to fight industrially against the neoliberal Labor Party to end this sort of systemic misogyny. Here are a few snippets: ‘The rich are getting richer and we are not bothering to fight […]
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I could live on $6321 a week
Posted by John, January 2nd, 2013 - under Inequality, Jenny Macklin, Newstart allowance, OECD, Poverty, Single mothers, Single parent payment, The dole.
Tags: ACOSS
Comments: 8
The shift of wealth to the rich over the last few decades and increasing poverty has been in part because we workers haven’t fought back. The time has come to tell the very very well paid Jenny Macklin and the ruling class she represents that the poverty she and the rest of the Gillard Labor government create through their deliberate policies has to end now. That can only come about through a massive societal and industrial campaign to prioritise the poor and working class over the rich and business.