Fran Kelly on #insiders dissing Labor for not junking stage 3 tax cuts yet. Did we hear her criticising this when LNP legislating this in the first place? #auspol
What a pity Howard and Costello pissed away the mining boom and failed to invest in a future fund. We could be using that money to fund these productivity measures like universal childcare. #insiders
I’m confused about the anti-union sentiment. The purpose of unions is to give employees a voice and protect workers. Why do ppl assume employers will look after workers? They don’t. #insiders
That's correct
Australians don't realise how serious this is
Scott Morrison has regulated that the GG's pet project will receive $4 million - every year!
There is no end date in the document
So it could cost taxpayers $40 million, $80 million - nobody knows
#GGGate#Insiders
It turns out that the 18 million is just the start of the rip off as they get 4 million in perpetuity. This is getting bigger every day the theft of tax payers money.
#insiders How on earth did we get to a position where people talk about the ‘right to strike’ as if it is outlandish ? It is a right recognised in international rights legislation. People who advocate against it should have to justify undermining human rights #auspol
Speers uses the term that disabled people could be 'put to work'. Surely he means offered jobs, rather than inferring that the disabled are a commodity to be used at will? #insiders#DisabilityTwitter#wordsmatter
While Alan Joyce has been CEO at Qantas they have gotten govt handouts. They have lost over $3 billion and he has been paid over $104 million. Workers and productivity are not the problems.
#insiders
Scrapping Scott Morrison’s stage 3 tax cuts will be good for the economy, good for women and good for productivity growth. Breaking bad promises is good economic management #auspol#insiders
Andrew Forrest: "Women are the unsung giants which we are not utilising in the economy."
Which is why he designed the Cashless Debit Card which penalised poor women, made so many homeless, forced to live in poverty and in violent relationships.
#insiders
CHANNEL 9's TV, print and radio boycott of the bombshell pentecostal Victorian Liberal branch stacking story enters its 4th day today. A representative of Channel 9, which is chaired by Peter Costello, has dodged questions on the matter. #insiders
needs to understand that strikes are a last resort. I was a full time union official for 27 years and the bulk of my work was negotiating, not managing strikes!
#insiders
David Speers says let's look at what's making news and refers to stories in:
The Age, the Sun Herald, the Sunday Age and ABC online
What a shame he couldn't include the
Australia has no problem training tens of thousands of oversees students as engineers, economists & scientists each year in our publicly owned unis…but our privatised VET sector struggles to train Australian cooks, hairdressers & welders. Neoliberalism failed #insiders#auspol
Karen Middleton on the GG's $18 million grant: "There's not a lot of information which is public" of the organisation behind this - no staff, no workplan, no website.
It has to be DITCHED.
#insiders
Australia has record low unemployment and just had a record fall in real wages - how can anyone suggest the current system will ever deliver sustained real wage increases? We have to increase bargaining power of workers as wages will never accidentally surge #insiders#auspol