Our current UK governments role model: Irrespective of the financial impacts of the amnesty for tax-cheats, the moral contradictions of the Abbott government are appalling. Abbott has declared of his welfare review that “finally those who deserve welfare will get welfare”, but who he believes is deserving and who the Australian people identify as such are likely to be starkly different things. Only yesterday brought news that the government wants the most vulnerable workers in the Australian economy –intellectually disabled employees in managed workshops – to waive their legal rights to a wage claim in return for a one-off payment of backpay. These workers, who are pressured to sign away their legal rights, are currently paid around $1.77 an hour. That Abbott’s government and the likes of Hockey are willing to exploit these people and bellow about “debt crises” at the same time as considering the write-off of billions of tax dollars as a rich indulgence exposes the true character of the new Coalition government.
Posted on: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 02:58:24 +0000
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