Archive for February 26th, 2015
The attack on penalty rates
Posted by John, February 26th, 2015 - under minimum wages, Penalty rates, Productivity Commission, The minimum wage.
Tags: Eric Abetz
Comments: 5
Alex McAuley in Red Flag discuses the attempts of the government and the bosses to further cut, or even abolish, penalty rates. This drive won’t go away despite the ongoing crises in the Abbott government seeing the Employment Minister, Senator Abetz, divorce the government from the Productivity Committee inquiry and from implementing any recommendations about either penalty rates or the minimum wage before or after the 2016 election. They know as well as anyone that embracing cuts to the minimum wage and penalty rates would destroy completely their very slim chances of re-election. If, god forbid, they were re-elected they could then change their minds and implement the recommendations to cut the minimum wage and get rid of penalty rates. A government saying one thing before an election and doing something different after. Hard to believe eh?
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Has Tony Abbott attempted to pervert the course of a police investigation?
Posted by John, February 26th, 2015 - under Justice, Tony Abbott.
Tags: Gillian Triggs, Human rights, Human Rights Commission
Comments: 1
Given that the AFP is investigating whether Gillian Triggs was asked to resign and if an inducement was offered to get her to do so, isn’t Tony Abbott’s categorical and unequivocal statement that ‘she was not asked to resign and no inducement has been offered’ itself possibly an attempt to influence and perhaps pervert the course of the investigation? Will he too be investigated?