RObert;
Abbott reference to Bernie Banton suggesting the the man dying of Mesothelioma was somehow using his disease to gain sympathy for his cause.
Abbott, Ruddick, Andrews, Howard, Bishop, all displayed lack of empathy for others and a driving need to crush unions, as if all union members were criminals and communists who had to be smashed.
My experience of unions has been over all positive, most members were just good people with like interest who joined together to protect those interests, only to find that a class of people who saw themselves as natural rulers saw Unions, the members as some terrible threat.
I noted earlier how individual contracts meant that one's injury or death would not be counted as workplace stats, so Abbott's employer mates had less of an insurance bill.
these and many more are the reason why I see these people as 'just another set of politicians'.
Cheers

Abbott, Ruddick, Andrews, Howard, Bishop, all displayed lack of empathy for others and a driving need to crush unions, as if all union members were criminals and communists who had to be smashed.

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you forgot Mal Brough [pronounced Bruff as in Gruff] and his policy [with Howard and Hockey] to label CSA payers [all of them] as "deadbeat dads" [another lousy amurukin pronk] and "chase deadbeats to their graves".

That one took the cake

JJ Ward, you seem not to know that the subbie structure in the construction industry was fully in place by the time Work Choices and Abbott came along. This started in the mid '80's after the demise of the BLF and the introduction of compulsory Super.
Additionally, you practise what you criticise in Abbott. Politicising this in this manner is hypocritical.

the bottom line is it matters not what abbott does or thinks as he has always been the junior partner in the Abbott & Costello mash, righ back to the Bob Ellis an Danial DNA matters.

IF Abbott makes it [and seems not] there would be an "unfortunate death" of an ALP member and a by election where [just like my mate Wozza Entsch up here in FNQ] Capt Smirk would suddenly come out of the woodwork and get elected and within 2 weeks be the PM

THAT dear friends is Our Worst Nightmare