TONY ABBOTT CONTEMPT and DECEIT: Orwell and the PPL: The mothers who miss out

Orwell and the PPL: The mothers who miss out

Bob Ellis 21 June 2014, 9:30am 16

Children Discrimination Politics Women

All babies are born equal, but some are more equal than others, writes Bob Ellis.

LET US NOW LIST the women who won’t get PPL in the next five years.

Those giving birth today. Those already pregnant who will give birth
this calendar year. Those not yet pregnant who will give birth next
financial year.

Those who run with their husbands a small business, and pay company
tax, and do not pay themselves a big wage. Those who married a farmer,
and work round the clock, and are not paid a wage for it.

Those who work now in a factory, if that factory closes by Christmas.
Those who work three days a week as a waitress, when the cafe closes in
a country town whose manufacturing industries are going offshore.

Those who are usherettes in a small art cinema in a provincial city,
now closing for want to customers. Those who worked as nannies, for
couples now leaving town.

If they do not have a job in the fifth month of pregnancy, they get
nothing. If they apply for a job in that month, they will not get it.

And the women, about six million of them, over forty-five, who have
had their last child. And the women, over thirty-five, another million,
who have by choice not had a third baby, or a fourth. They get nothing
at all. Though they have borne three babies and raised them, they get
nothing at all, retrospectively, for their trouble.

Some of these women are jealous of those Packer, Elliott, Rinehart or
Turnbull women who will get fifty thousand for having a baby while on
leave from a job their father gave them, or arranged for them. They will
resent the new Orwellian rule that all babies are born equal, but some
are more equal than others.

Once you add in women from certain cultures who have seven children
and do not have an official job outside the family dwelling, this adds
up to about twelve million women who will not get the PPL and will not
like paying for a doctor’s visit they for thirty years weren’t charged
for. Or losing sixteen hundred a year in schoolkids’ money Shorten gave
them and Abbott is taking away.

Though these things are apparent to anyone who can add, they are not to Hockey, Andrews, Pyne or Abbott.

Abbott sticking with PPL policy: Scheme a matter of justice

They see this enrichment of the fertile wealthy and punishment of the
infertile old, and the unemployed, and those who cannot, because of a
resident mother-in-law, or a disabled uncle or autistic child, afford a
third child, or a second, or, because of large rents, a first, in a town
where Holden has been told to go away and Toyota has gone away too and
all the adjacent component small businesses have gone bust.

Hockey has called ‘entitlement’ the wages Shorten argued for a carer of a disabled son and got and Andrews has taken away.

The interlinking of these things, not apparent to Hockey, who is not
intelligent, has caused a rage in five million women and a despair in a
million more, who will never vote Liberal again.

Which means this is a lame-duck Government already.

It will not get this Budget through — and Abbott, nailed to the mast
of his PPL, which no National and few Liberals want, must resign, or
should resign because of it soon. Or call a double dissolution, or the GG call one for him, on the advice of the Leader of the Opposition, as Kerr did in 1975.

The average of all the polls this last week
shows the Coalition losing thirty-six seats. These will include Barton,
Petrie, Eden-Monaro, Dobell, Capricornia, Reid, O’Connor, Lyons,
Solomon, Banks, Hindmarsh, Page, Braddon, Gilmore, Lindsay, Robertson,
Deakin, Bonner, Corangamite, Durack, La Trobe, Bass, Brisbane, Ford,
Macquarie, Hasluck, Dunkley, Herbert, Mallee, Flynn, Swan, Dickson,
Longman, Boothby, Casey and Cowan. How can they be therefore said to
have a mandate for anything at all?

This is a terrible situation and in many countries leads to an army coup.

This bunch of ratbags should spare us that, but it is possible some of them are talking about it.

They are awful people, and we should be done with them.

A petition of three million signatures demanding a double dissolution might help, or might not.

Speed the day.

Bill Shorten - Matter of Public Importance - Thursday, 5 June 2014