Extreme and sloppy legislation

By: willy*bach (Registered ) on 15-10-2007 06:33

Doug Steley's story cannot be unique. There must be thousands of stories like his. I feel for your frustration. You did what was right and got shabby treatment. Joe Hockey is just like the rest of the Howard gang, although he was not that bad till they told him to get tougher. 
 
The whole Work Choices debacle is a case of sloppy, ideologically driven and extreme legislation rushed through the parliament without proper review. This was made possible by the Howard government gaining control of the Senate and then abusing its proper function as a House of review. 
 
The bombardment of advertising to persuade us that the Work Choices legislation is working is an example of abuse of office and theft of public funds. This is just one more reason to throw the Howard stooges out of public life. 
 
I do not have much faith in the Labor Party to address these wrongs in full. They will not be able to while they still have a hostile Senate, until July 2008. If there are lots of Greens Senators Kevin Rudd will have to deliver a set of workplace rules that is safe and fair. Unfortunately Labor will retain some of the worst of Worst Choices. 
 
I would assume that Labor would get in easily and vote Green. It would make the Labor Party wake up and realise that their very average IR policies are not any way good enough to protect workers' rights. 
 
Willy Bach 
Greens candidate for Griffith

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