Senator Eric Abetz

When Robert Menzies founded our great party, he was concerned with what he described as the forgotten people – those people that had become voiceless at the hands of the Labor Government that dealt in the big picture, and forgot the people and communities that actually made up the big picture.

Now some 65 years later, it seems Labor of the 21^st century has learnt nothing.

Labor is still stuck in their ideology of Government knowing best - that Government is the centre of everything and no doubt that is why Labor leaders have such inflated egos because they foolishly see themselves as being at the centre of all things important.

“Union demands for business to make up the shortfall in compensation for Labor’s Carbon Tax will cost even more Australian jobs,” Senator Abetz said today.

“Taxpayers are already fronting up $8 Billion in compensation for Labor’s job destroying Carbon Tax but union bosses say that’s not enough.”

Federal Labor has reached a new low. Having promised so much and delivered so little, its backflip to run an unconscionable taxpayer-funded misinformation campaign is another example in the long list of broken Labor promises. To add insult to injury and like with so much else they do, Labor has not only embarked on a $38 million taxpayer-funded propaganda campaign but also rushed it and not consulted. Remember throughout all this that Mr Rudd gave this solemn commitment: government advertising was a cancer on the body politic of Australia that needed surgical removal.

So rushed was its desire for a taxpayer-funded campaign, Labor—through its Special Minister of State—crashed through and ignored its very own pathetically weak guidelines by invoking emergency powers. That is bad enough in itself. But—oh, what a tangled web we weave—having disingenuously claimed urgency and emergency, Labor then withheld this decision wilfully and deliberately from the parliament in an attempt to avoid the scrutiny of Senate estimates process.

The Green-Labor Alliance has this week rushed through three bills which are singularly designed to help out the union bosses to the detriment of individual workers and independent contractors.

• The abolition of the Australian Building and Construction Commission for the militant CFMEU;
• Changing the Fair Work Act for the Textile, Clothing and Footwear union; and
• The so-called 'safe rates' bill for the TWU.