Minimum Wage
Is there something getting into the water at conservative fundraisers?
In the past week we have been treated to leading Liberal-National donor and supporter Clive Palmer accusing the CIA of bankrolling the Rockefeller Foundation to donate to Greenpeace’s legal challenges against his coal mining operations.
Just days later, apparently sensing that “crazy” is the new black, former Federal Liberal MP Ross Cameron waded back into the public debate, to label the minimum wage as a “virus” designed and cultivated to keep people out of work.
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Each year the debate over the minimum wage seems to be dominated by people who’ll never have to live on it: economists, politicians, business lobbyists, and, I have to be honest, union
leaders.
We can all forget that a dollar means different things to different people. That for one of the 1.4 million Australians on a low wage an few extra dollars a week can be the money that keeps the lights on, pays the rent or buys new shoes for a fast-growing child.
Last week the ACTU lodged its minimum wage claim - $28 extra per week for a full time worker.It’s not a big ask when you think of the rise in electricity prices, fuel costs, rents and other expenses.
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The real workers says:
@ JT Thanks for your opinion, but we DID take responsibility. We had children young and decided at 27 to go back to uni. I studied media and my wife education. Your disdain for the artists of the world does you no favours as a person either. Never watched tv… Read more »
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ZSRenn says:
@ Get it rite Here is a story for you that says Interest Rates will rise it is only a matter of time as to when http://mozo.com.au/interest-rates/articles/it-s-a-case-of-when-not-if-interest-rates-rise-experts-say/800314491 Perhaps you might get it rite @ Ptom perhaps you might look at this link which gives CEO’s a $211,000 Average income. http://www.payscale.com/research/AU/Job=Chief_Executive_Officer_(CEO)/Salary… Read more »
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