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The system that is being dismantled is the system that provided us with wealth and freedom.

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

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