"The Coalition is very committed to doing the absolute least required"
Government shows commitment to reducing waste by developing environmental policy on back of envelope
Is Australia any different? Only in that our labour shortages are presently more patchy. The Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry called for the numbers of skilled migrants to be doubled to 200,000 people a year. And a terrifying ABC piece recently celebrated the introduction of a Hunger Games employment paradigm for local strawberry picking. Ten strawberry pickers were to be given a one in a hundred chance of winning a $100,000 bonus in a lottery if they signed on to the job. Employers could have, of course, just paid those people an extra $1,000. I guess they didn’t want the employees to share collective confidence in their own labour value.
That would rather cause the whole rotten system to come crashing down, wouldn’t it? And that – as the neoliberals and employers know – is the truth that lies beneath.
So what jobs did JobKeeper actually save and what jobs did JobMaker really create if there is that much desperation coming out of the pandemic? We know they casualised the labor force gave workers the opportunity of 3 jobs that made them poorer and still unable to pay their bills. It's what Gower referred to when she said " We need to harness the proles".
This nation's future might better be harnessed by a restructuring of our corporate systems from adversarial to cooperative, progressive and looking for beneficial outcomes for everyone and not just billionaires CEOs and their shareholders who largely account for 1% of Australia.
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