When is A Job Not A Job?
Have you heard the joke about Abbott’s Green Army?
Answer: They’ll be working for half the minimum wage, but to make
up for that they’ll be exempt from Commonwealth workplace laws,
including the Work Health and Safety Act, the Fair Work Act and the
Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Act.
Relax! It only applies to people who are betwee the ages of 17-24.
It’s not like the Abbott government expects older people to be part of
this government initiative. It’s just a way of showing everyone that the
Age of Enlightment is over.
And it hasn’t come in yet. When it comes to politics, governments
often float an idea and when the opponents campaign against it, they
bring in a less objectionable form of the idea, and while this doesn’t
mean that everybody’s happy, it does take the wind out of the sails of
the protests. “No, we were never intending to include human babies
in our live meat export – that was just hysterical nonsense from the
loony left – we’re only going to remove restrictions on live animal
exports and ban graphic film of animal slaughter, because only a truly
sick individual would want to see animals being slaughtered.” Mind
you, in the Abbott government’s case, quite a few of their decisions
have been worse than the ones they’ve floated. For example, there was
the idea that ministers would be prevented from speaking their mind by
Abbott’s office, but, in fact, Christopher Pyne was allowed to share his
thoughts.
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