“Before Albanese gets himself kicked out of office, he seems determined to ruin the business world with his gender equality targets which are on the agenda for the first week of Parliament”. (Anon)

It's a genuinely anonymous comment from the Flat White section of Spectator Australia. Subscribe if you want to read the full article.

It seems that Albanese has come up with a “ridiculously insulting gender law”.

Employers with 500 or more employees will have to pick “three Woke-style targets”, one of which is the gender profile of the workforce. ‘Anonymous’ slips in the fact that no mention is made about whether or not men who identify as women will count as women.

If naughty employers of 500 or more people do not obey the Albanese diktat - i.e they continue to hire on merit and suitability, not gender, within three years - the government will publicly name and shame them, and cut off any grants they might be entitled to.

Albanese the blackmailer lives.

‘Anonymous’ describes this dangerous, meddling nonsense as “we care about women when it is politically convenient”, or “women are useful tools in our election agenda”.

I am able to advise that Flat White's is editor is a woman

Apart from the inefficiency of DEI (now a thing of the past in the U.S) compared with merit, governments have no business dictating to private enterprise, particularly as they are not very good at their own job of running the country.

The only connection between business and government should be consumer protection legislation.

Yes I agree with you.
They've got no business involving themselves in the running of businesses when they can't do either that or run the country properly themselves.

Some of these old school branch managers are still working for Schwab, haven't knelt or pledged allegiance to Trump yet.

Musk has pronounced war on USAID and the deep state, it's a revolution of sorts.
I know Trump has revoked a heap of security clearances like Clapper, Brennan and Bolton.

What's the problem - just never have more than 499 employees!

Being named and shamed by government - Isn't that an honour to be shunned by these bastards?

And not receiving government grants - Isn't it shameful to accept them?
Didn't you just say, Ttbn, that "The only connection between business and government should be consumer protection legislation" (I personally think that even that is too much)?

Thomas Jefferson wrote, “Government exists for the interests of the governed, not for the governors.” That doesn't seem to be the case now.

ttbn,

Did Jefferson apply that principle to the 600 slaves he owned? Me thinks not. History reports Jefferson was a particularly brutal owner, not sparing the lash when it came to truculent black men and women!