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POLITICALUPDATE<br />
NEW SALESMAN<br />
SAME POLICIES<br />
Turnbull stabs Abbott in the back but<br />
nothing changes for Australian workers.<br />
When Malcolm Turnbull knifed Tony Abbott in the<br />
Liberal Party leadership coup in September, the<br />
nation breathed a sigh of relief and looked forward<br />
to a more sensible and reasonable policy direction<br />
from the Government. But as the excitement settled<br />
it became crystal clear that the only thing that was<br />
changing down in Canberra was the frontman.<br />
To get the votes he needed to win, Turnbull<br />
sealed backroom deals by promising to keep their<br />
embarrassing climate change policy and the publicly<br />
unpopular same sex marriage position.<br />
He tiptoed around these policy backflips during<br />
his leadership honeymoon but now that he’s got his<br />
feet under the desk he’s showing in a number of other<br />
areas that the policy unfairness everyone hated about<br />
the Abbott Government hasn’t changed a single bit.<br />
Australian workers are realising that no matter where<br />
they look, the Turnbull Government is planning to<br />
make their lives harder.<br />
The disgraced and discredited Union Royal Commission<br />
has been allowed to limp along to its preplanned conclusion so<br />
the Government and its big business donors can attack Union<br />
Jobs and Union Pay across the country.<br />
The secret Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) and China Free<br />
Trade Agreement deals will open the gates to allow hundreds<br />
of thousands of underpaid and under skilled foreign workers<br />
to flood the local jobs market. The inevitable flow on effect<br />
of this underpaid workforce will be downward pressure on<br />
everyone’s pay as local companies try to compete.<br />
The plan to abolish penalty rates earned by those who<br />
work through the night and on weekends is becoming a huge<br />
concern for many Australian families that rely on this precious<br />
income. The economic lie about job creation used to justify<br />
this plan is as discredited as it is inaccurate.<br />
Lifting and expanding the GST grab is another Turnbull<br />
favourite that will impact the poor much harder than the<br />
AUSTRALIAN WORKERS ARE REALISING<br />
THAT NO MATTER WHERE THEY LOOK, THE<br />
TURNBULL GOVERNMENT IS PLANNING TO<br />
MAKE THEIR LIVES HARDER.<br />
rich, and if this sounds as unfair as a Joe Hockey budget it’s<br />
because that’s exactly what it is.<br />
Despite some early grandstanding the Turnbull Government<br />
is also showing it has lost none of Abbott’s appetite for<br />
Americanising our health and education systems, so that only<br />
those with money can stay healthy and get educated.<br />
Is this what we want for our country?<br />
Australia is a rich and secure country that can afford to<br />
employ people in safe jobs, pay decent wages and pay for the<br />
health and education of its people.<br />
Our way of life is worth protecting.<br />
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<strong>TWU</strong>NEWS SUMMER <strong>2015</strong> | 5
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