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Henry Review ignores Tasmania

“It’s typical of Labor’s lazy Federal representation that the Henry Tax Review all but ignored Tasmania,” says Senator Eric Abetz.

“Out of 13 focus groups, none were held in Tasmania.”

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Taxpayers lose millions because of Julia Gillard's failure to stop opportunistic union strikes

“In December last year I asked if Julia Gillard was incapable of reaching the same conclusion as striking postal workers who eventually called off their strike because it was deemed inappropriate opportunistic behaviour at Christmas time”.

“There was stony silence from the Deputy Prime Minister at the time and now it has been revealed that the strike action by the CEPU, which Julia Gillard refused to condemn, has cost the Australian Taxpayer 2.3 million dollars in lost revenue”.

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Budget writes off over 75,000 unemployed Australians

Labor’s all spin and no substance budget has delivered a slap in the face to more than 75000 unemployed Australians.

Wayne Swan’s breathless announcement in last night’s no frills budget stating that unemployment rates will fall under Labor by 2012 to ‘so called’ full employment of 4.75% falls way short of the mark.

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Labor's $10,000,000.00 Gift to Union Mates

Labor’s big taxing, big spending budget has been given the ‘big tick’ by unions and it is no surprise why.

Buried in Labor’s budget papers is a $10 million dollar “grant” to a so-called “Trade Union Education Foundation” to fund union bosses and their efforts to campaign for Labor at the forthcoming election.

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Budget Confirms Modern Award Mess

Labor’s big taxing; big spending budget provides an embarrassing confirmation that Julia Gillard’s so called “Modern Award” laws are a mess of confusion and uncertainty.

Budget documents have revealed that over $85 million dollars will need to be spent to try and cover up the modern award mess caused by Labor’s ‘Fair Work’ laws.

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Tasmania: Nothing Asked For, Nothing Delivered

TASMANIA has been left off the map in the Rudd Government’s last Budget before the election, the Tasmanian Liberal Senate Team said tonight.

“Once again Labor has shown contempt for Tasmanian voters, again failing to allocate meaningful, additional funding to the State,” Senator Eric Abetz, speaking on behalf of the Tasmanian Liberal Senate Team, said.

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Julia Raises White Flag on Take Home Pay

The fact that Ms Gillard has been forced to introduce regulations to protect workers’ take home pay is a clear admission of failure of her modern award process which has left tens of thousands of Australian workers worse off.

This is in direct breach of her election promise that no Australian worker would be worse off.

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Labor ignores Working Families

The Government has been forced to admit that it didn’t even bother to consult with the Office of Work & Family before implementing its so-called ‘modern awards’.

Responding to questions I asked in Senate Estimates, The Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet has now revealed that, “The office of Work and Family did not provide any input to Fair Work Australia in relation to the development of modern awards”.

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Senator Abetz wins Senate Leadership

Tasmanian Liberal Senator and Deputy Opposition Leader Senator Eric Abetz has been elected unopposed by his Liberal colleagues to replace outgoing Liberal Senate Leader Nick Minchin at a Party room meeting held in Canberra today.

Nick Minchin’s decision to retire was regretted but understood by all his colleagues.

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Eric Abetz
Senator the Hon.
Eric Abetz

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Senator the Hon. Richard Colbeck

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Stephen Parry
Senator Stephen Parry

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Senator Guy Barnett

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Senator David Bushby