Belly, the evidence is in the fact that, when the world, us included, started to stumble, labor decided to take an axe to IR and make employing people harder, rather than easier.

They decided that hospitality workers were being poorly treated, and decided to impose penalty rates on weekends, their busiest trading time.

Of cause this resulted in the loss of many part time jobs, jobs that were in many cases filled by mothers, who chose to work on Sunday, so dad could have some one on one with the kids.

Nowadays, you order your Sunday coffee from some kid who firstly doesn't drink coffee, and secondly doesn't care what it tastes like.

The sad part of all this is that the majority of these workers were happy with their arrangements, now they have the best award rates , with no jobs, or little hours.

Then there was the removal of the two hour shift, many of which were taken by school kids, as they finished school at 3, then worked till 5/5.30. Suited the kids, suited the employers, but not labor.

Of cause they realized they had stuffed up, and reintroduced these shifts.

If you recall I told you this would happen, way back when Julia was chaffing at the bit to chop at IR, but, as usual, I was shot down.

I also warned we would suffer from labor, and look where we have got ourselves to, IN LESS THAN FIVE YEARS.

Just think, had the independents, or wannabe independents gone the other way, there's a real chance our borders would be safe by now and we would be billions of dollars better off.

As for CN, he is only trying to fix the labor mess, brought about by years of gross incompetence.

They are a joke! Full stop!

Lexii, Given we have had years of Wayne Swan, ramming down our necks that we have FULL EMPLOYMENT NOW, where do you propose these workers will come from and, if they draw them from existing jobs, where do the replacement workers come from, as we are FULLY EMPLOYED,APPARENTLY!

Lexi,
The problem is that few, not even journalists, have any faith left in what the government says. It is all spin. The announcement is more important than actually doing it. Take the NDIS, for example, it was announced and they had no idea how to finance it. Giving all those with disabiliies a false sense of expectation.

The NBN is another, it was going to be the be all and end all in communication yet it is grossly over budget and very few are taking it up. So another very costly failure.

So our expectations of this new, you beaut, job creation scheme will fall far short as well.

From Rudds first massive immigration numbers announcement, then the scrapping of border control measures, to the present, everything has been abandoned or badly managed. All at incredible cost to us.

You cannoty blame people for not joyously receiving yet another government announcement.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/national/greens-pull-their-string-on-gillard-puppet-show/story-fndo317g-1226582359454
Lexi A week is a long time in politics.
The span of my life much longer.
The link demands attention.
It is some thing I have warned of from a month after Gillards installation.
Not its truths hidden in its contents, but in the fact it has already taken place, in 1975.
Just as you see in this link, some truth,in this case the basics are true, helped by Labors own actions, an arrogance is there, the thought we would not under stand or mind, the takeover of our party.
See in 1975, we, as we do now, fueled the spleen, the near hate, and in feeding public opinion with such?
It will work.
We doom our selves by thinking every one thinks as we do.
I am blacker than black, because I love my union, enough to remind it, they did wrong, and plan to reward them selves for doing it, by after our loss, placing talented bright and a good leader, after washing his hands, Bill Shorten on Gillards throne.
Power brokers in control during the smash, and rewarded and fixing their control in new Labor forever?
Most voters buy with the paper every thing including how to vote they do not think like us, and the storm of such press story's, as it came in 1975 is coming and will work, we are in for sad times.

Lexi look too at our tormentors/fellow posters here.
Rechtubs view, fixed unmovable, that it was Labor, not the whole community that wanted the end of workchoices.
If not for workchoices John Howard would still be Prime Minister, assisted as usual by his good wife, the unelected shadow PM.
Without worckchoices Labor would never have turned Howard battlers back to Labor.
KNOW Rechtub, two thirds of Liberals front bench today, did not like work choices, Abbott has pledged not to revive it.
Lexi, without Kevin Rudd even with work choices Howard , driven by his over controlling wife, would still be prime Minister.
Walk in to a workmens lunch shed, hear them talk, understand they think for them selves and I am hearing their view still in the street, it hurts.

Dear Rehctub,

You ask, "where will the workers come from?"

Perhaps from all the job cuts Liberal and
Coalition Governments are currently making.

Dear Banjo,

I'm not blaming people. As I stated earlier -
It's the media. And in mediascape - as we all
know - polls will
always trump policy every time.

Dear Belly,

You really need to get away from reading the tabloid press.
Instead of reading "The Herald Sun," try "New Madilda,"
instead.

cont'd ...

Dear Belly,

The following may be of interest:

http://newmatilda.com/2013/02/18/coalitions-hypocrite-economics