Malcolm Turnbull is in campaign mode, which in ‘Liberal speak’ means that the scare campaigns begin. As expected, this election would see a scare campaign against the unions. On script, yesterday the headline boomed ‘Unions threaten the nation’s economic future, says Malcolm Turnbull‘ who himself goes on to say that:
“We can not allow Shorten, Labor and their union backers to stand in the way of advancing this nation’s long-term and economic future”.
Yes, damn horrible things those nasty unions. Trying to ruin all those great social, moral and economic initiatives the government has implemented. But try as they may, the unions cannot destroy everything. For (a brief) example, the unions cannot or will not:
- provide you with one of the worst broadband plans in the world
- axe the Safe Schools program
- spend billions of dollars locking up children in detention centres
- spend a half a billion dollars on a same-sex marriage plebiscite
- spend hundreds of billions of dollars on jet fighters whose efficiency is under question
- bring in $100,000 university degrees
- cause the temperatures to rise by 2 degrees by the end of the century
- peddle around the country promoting a book at the taxpayer’s expense
- take helicopter rides at the taxpayer’s expense to attend a picnic
- slash billions of dollars from hospital funding
- slash billions of dollars from education
- increase the gap between the rich and the poor
- do away with penalty rates
- destroy Medicare
- sack scientists
- attempt to destroy the ABC
- implement economic policies that could lead us into a recession should the next expected GFC hit
- allow the richest people or largest companies to pay zero tax
- will not abuse 457 visa holders
- will not give billions of dollars to the mining industry in ridiculous rebates
And unions will not axe:
- the Social Inclusion Board
- the National Housing Supply Council
- the Prime Minister’s Council on Homelessness
- the National Policy Commission on Indigenous Housing
- the National Children and Family Roundtable
- the Advisory Panel on Positive Ageing
- the Immigration Health Advisory Group
Why? Because they’ve already been axed. Who axed them? The current government.
And neither will unions defund:
- the Refugee Council of Australia
- the Australian Youth Affairs Council
- the Alcohol and Drug Council of Australia
- the National Congress of Australia’s First Peoples
- the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Services
Why? Because they’ve already been defunded. Who defunded them? The current government.
Here is Turnbull’s quote again:
“We can not allow Shorten, Labor and their union backers to stand in the way of advancing this nation’s long-term and economic future”.
Now ask yourself “who is really standing in the way of advancing this nation’s long-term and economic future?”
