WorkChoices
Thanks, Tony!
Update: Other bloggers are joining in. This is from Rooster (who points out that the Government’s ads stole their orange colour from the Rights at Work campaign):
And this is from Weezil (who says “John HoWARd’s idea of workplace ‘flexibility’ involves you, the worker, being able to assume the position”):
This one’s from Sub Junctive:
Update: A comrade sent through a couple more parodies (pdf).
If you see any more, point ‘em out. I’ll collate them in this post.
Rooster has come up with a gem at the Temporary Pen – http://mushroomandrooster.blogspot.com/2005/10/john-howards-new-bumper-sticker.html
I’m learning to play the flute right now.
I think we could really develop this theme.
I’m still thinking over ideas. “Agree or Starve” isn’t catchy, we need something catchy.
You know I was working on a piece that parodied the IR reforms that ended with the line “And choice. Choice now means yer fucked.”
This is far more clever.
Ah, I love a good parody…
http://subjunction.blogspot.com/2005/10/why-would-you-work-in-australia.html
The last one looks like a GTA screencap. Am I right?
I rather like “Agree Or Starve,” Stuart.
I just go for the plain yet easy to spread: “WorkChoices = No Choices”.
I am thinking about leaving the Country just to get away from the ads.
Guess what? The ALP prefers No Choice, too.
I am running with this sign at the local markets…
Howard Government presents
WORKCHOICES
Underpaid or Unemployed
WorkChoices Means NoChoices
A few of us are running with NoChoice locally. “Sign or Starve” might be catchy.
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So, who’s making the bumper stickers?
PLEASE make stickers! I’d even buy a t-shirt.
Its kind of odd, because I haven’t seen any of the actual government propoganda, just the parodies – which seems quite appropriate really.
I am terrified of returning to OZ now. I always suspected that things could get wore, but Howard is just so good at exceeding my expectations…
a rope that is only flexible at one end is called a whip
your a bunch of fucking losers
Thanks, df. You’ve convinced me.
[Alright, deleted and banned. Get fucked you moron. ---RC.]
Howard and his cabinet and Ministers have at their core the ability to Dissemble, Deceive and Deny.
The latest attack on a fair, just and equitable Australian society are these so called workchoices to implement the misnamed Industrial Reforms. Howard has been intent on destroying a worker’s ability to bargain effectively and is either so far out of touch with reality and the workplace or is duplicitous in his comments when stating it is unlawful to force an individual onto an agreement. When an employer has a standard template for employees to sign, which has been designed, structured and written by that employee then there has been no negotiation. This will not happen under Howard’s Way – He cannot be serious. This is ideology gone mad with power.
Howard’s government has an outstanding record in deception and denial. Some of the more blatant examples have been Tampa, children overboard, Siev X, ‘the Pacific Solution’, unemployment rates. Of course there has alsobeen the catch-cry ‘there is no better friend to the working men and women of Australia than this government’. This is where the spin doctoring occurrs. I would also take issue with those who say the complaints about the GST have proven false and that no-one cares about the GST now. What arrant nonsene – why does Costello want even more GST? Why has he attempted to hold the states to ransom?
the Howard government has suggested that in meeting the economic challenges of competing in the region against India, China, Indonesia that Australians will have to be effective economically and that wages will be ‘part of the mix’. Now let me think, if a Chinese textile worker gets 90cents an hour and an Australian textile worker receives $18.00 an hour, then either the work goes o/s or the Austra;lian worker receives less. Well done Howard.
This government has the ability to keep saying things until it is generally accepted as true. Just because one syas something repeatedly doesn’t make it true. Remeber Bill Clinton? “I did not have sex with that woman’? and then there was the debate about what constitutes sex. Howard and his ministers use the same method. Dissemle. Deceive. Deny
you fucking commies you have no idea what your beliefs actually do to a society. It is so hypocritical to dump on the very system that provides you with enough wealth and freedom to be able to sit on your high horses and criticise it.
Theres no way regular people in Australia will be exploited now, or ever. The ones who get exploited are the ones living ‘off the grid’ in brothels or other underground industries. So fight for them and stop wasting your energy trying to convince the country that they are oppressed, poor and in need of salvation from a defuct ideology
That was a very poor argument.
The system that is being dismantled is the system that provided us with wealth and freedom.
[Don't you read? You've been banned. I don't want your offensive rubbish here, so get the hint and go away. ---RC.]
so can i have my say yet…….
(it will be non-offensive)
WORKCHOICES: Buckley’s and none
Take your pick
u all suck
david your silly