Tanya Plibersek has revealed a startling inability to explain how Labor’s highly irregular economic policy of using taxpayer dollars to top up private sector wages would work. When asked three times on AM this morning about ‘knock on’ state tax liabilities, which may threaten the viability of thousands of child care centres, the Labor Deputy…
DetailsLabor’s highly irregular plan to spend taxpayer dollars topping up private sector wages is not only an unprecedented intervention into Australia’s wages market, it has major implications for the future of many smaller childcare centres. While Labor’s scheme would not change anything about the way a centre is run, it would impose big new payroll…
DetailsSubjects: Bill Shorten’s tax blunder; Industrial relations; US-China trade tensions; Section 44 EO&E………………………………………………………… TOM CONNELL: Campaign spokesperson and the Trade Minister as well, thanks for your time. SIMON BIRMINGHAM: G’day Tom, good to be with you. TOM CONNELL: Just to start off, in one of your old areas, child care. Now Labor’s used essentially your…
DetailsBill Shorten misled the listeners of Jonesy and Amanda twice in his radio interview this morning about how Labor will hit Australia’s retirees with higher taxes. When asked “will that money be coming from self-funded retirees?” Mr Shorten first said: “No … the income that people get in retirement from their dividends or their shares…
DetailsA week after Labor announced its unprecedented intervention into the wages market Shadow Treasurer Chris Bowen still couldn’t tell Australians how many child care workers would be affected. When pushed on how many of the 195,000 workers would miss out Mr Bowen squibbed on a response at the National Press Club today. …
DetailsBill Shorten today confirmed that he was aware of Luke Creasey’s social media post about disbelieving rape victims at the time he held a press conference standing by his candidate for Melbourne. As Emily Maguire from the Domestic Violence Resource Centre said this week: “Many women who are sexually assaulted don’t report it to police,…
DetailsJoint release with Federal Member for Leichardt Warren Entsch Visitors to Far North Queensland will soon be able to walk or cycle a stunning new coastal and hinterland route from Palm Cove to Port Douglas, thanks to an $8 million investment from the Coalition Government. Federal Tourism Minister Simon Birmingham said the Wangetti Trail, once…
DetailsBill Shorten is failing to apply the standards he demands of others by refusing to disendorse his candidate for the seat of Melbourne, Luke Creasey. Mr Creasey’s offensive social media posts have demonstrated that he is completely unfit to hold public office with his actions described by White Ribbon as “abusive, hateful and disrespectful.” Chief…
DetailsTwo hours ago we said that Bill Shorten had backflipped on the number of childcare workers who would benefit from his unprecedented intervention into the Australian wages market. Well, it seems he has since backflipped on that backflip. At his press conference in Tasmania, the Leader of the Opposition claimed that he “would like to…
DetailsBill Shorten has shown yet again he is just making it up as he goes along when it comes to his policies. Today the Leader of the Opposition claimed that 140,000 child care workers would benefit from his policy even though there are 195,000 of them across the country. But the 140,000 workers referenced by…
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