Media Room
Harkins caught out by his own deception - need for full AEC investigation Wednesday, 14 April 2010 12:51
Tasmanian Liberal Senator Eric Abetz has renewed calls for The Australian Electoral Commission to investigate the circumstances surrounding the withdrawal from the seat of Franklin by Tasmanian union leader Kevin Harkins. Mr Harkins has now revealed to the ABC’s 730 Report last night he was encouraged by Prime Minister Rudd’s former Chief of Staff, David Epstein in 2007 that he should stand down and that at a secret meeting later he was told if he agreed to stand aside he would be given a free run at the next preselection without any “blockers or veto or interference”.
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Gillard concedes workers are worse offThursday, 08 April 2010 10:59
Julia Gillard’s warning to nursing home operators in NSW and Queensland not to cut nurses pay under Labor’s modern award system is an admission by the Deputy Prime Minister that workers ARE worse off under her new award system. Julia Gillard and Kevin Rudd ensured that no worker would be worse off under Labor’s new award system but clearly this is not the case and is yet another in a long list of Labor’s broken promises.
Labor's bureaucracy gone madThursday, 01 April 2010 11:14
Retailers who are struggling to cope with the introduction of Julia Gillard’s complex modern awards scheme now face the prospect of being unfairly targeted by the Fair Work Ombudsman. Why is the Ombudsman subjecting retailers to a substantive audit of pay scales, penalty rates and leave loading allowances, at a time when the retail award is still being worked out by Fair Work Australia?
Julia Gillard - Showboating in the WestWednesday, 31 March 2010 17:15
Julia Gillard’s showboating in the West in hardhats and vests with policy on the run won’t fix Labor’s industrial relations mess. Clearly Ms Gillard’s industrial laws are not working as evidenced by today’s decision by Qantas engineers to initiate unjustifiable work bans over Easter designed to cause inconvenience to airline passengers, a similar action to that taken by unions in the lead up to last years Christmas holiday period.
Julia Gillard - "the rules are the rules", so why are you changing them?Monday, 29 March 2010 16:35
Julia Gillard can’t have it both ways. On the one hand she wants to do away with the Australian Building and Construction Commission, replacing it with an authority with watered down powers and on the other, she warns militant unionists to abide by the laws saying “the rules are the rules”. Well they are Ms Gillard, or at least until you tried to change them, a move that the Senate is thankfully blocking.
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Abetz to run for Senate LeadershipThursday, 25 March 2010 09:28
Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Senate, Senator Eric Abetz has today indicated that he will be a candidate for the leadership of the Liberal Party in the Senate. “Senator Nick Minchin has been an outstanding leader of the Coalition in the Senate and he will be very much missed.”
Minchin's Contribution InspirationalWednesday, 24 March 2010 16:01
Nick Minchin’s contribution to Australian public life, South Australia and the cause of Liberalism has been nothing short of inspirational. He provided discipline, rigour and statesmanship to the issues of the day.
ABCC - Another Broken Core CommitmentWednesday, 17 March 2010 15:16
Labor’s hypocrisy knows no bounds. Just last week Julia Gillard was going to great lengths to try and convince us that the reason Labor’s proposed legislation to abolish the Australian Building and Construction Commission has not been enacted is due to “obstructionist factors” by the Senate.
Greens - Back with the Fairies at the bottom of the Garden with Forestry "Policy"Wednesday, 10 March 2010 12:37
“The Greens anti-forestry policy announced yesterday will devastate regional communities, social networks, jobs and families in a clear felling of a vital Tasmanian Sector,” Senator Eric Abetz said today. Mr McKim’s failure to condemn the hijacking of trucks and sabotage as witnessed in Triabunna together with Mr Burling as his running mate in Franklin highlights how the Greens deliberately create division and then feed off it for purely partisan purposes.
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