Happy New Year dear readers. I would offer you wishes that 2025 is better than 2024, but I am not going to hold my breath. The year has barely started and the political and ignorant BS has begun. This does not bode well.
Reported only a few hours ago in the AFR:
Journalist John Kehoe wrote:
Labor has used the first day of the election year to launch an assault on business and the Coalition over workplace rules, accusing them of wanting to maximise profits and pay workers less.
Of course Labor would do this. They need to distract from the extent the government is ripping of Australians - not to maximise profits but to maximise government and pay workers less.
Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations Murray Watt talked up the Albanese government’s new laws that criminalise deliberate wage theft by employers, and hit out at business and the Coalition for opposing a series of Labor’s workplace relations changes over the past two years.
Conveniently omited by class clown Watt is that the biggest system of wage theft in Australia is