Senator Kate Lundy and Peter Conway, second ACT ALP Senate Candidate, today launched the ACT Labor Senate Campaign by highlighting how the Liberal Government will take their extreme Work Choices legislation even further.
John Howard has conceded he would “finetune” his laws after the next election saying earlier this year”We don’t have any changes in mind except any finetuning that might arise in the operation of the law.” (29/8/07 doorstop)
When John Howard says he will “finetune”, does he mean removing the so-called fairness tests, awards, penalty rates, overtime and holiday leave loading?
The Coalition cannot be believed on industrial relations. Mr Howard’s Finance Minister Nick Minchin told the H.R.Nicholls Society in 2006 that he wanted “another wave of industrial relations reforms”.
Mr Minchin said: “There is much more to do and I pray that we remain in Government and effect further change, but I do ask for your forgiveness – that change has not been as rapid as you would have liked….This is evolution, not revolution, and there is still a long way to go . . . awards, the IR Commission, all the rest of it.”
In the ACT, voters have the opportunity to end the Coalition’s absolute control in the Senate so that John Howard and Peter Costello can’t take their extreme Work Choices legislation even further.
Contact: Rachel Allen – 6230 0411 or 0418 488 295
