Janet Albrechsten has been doing her homework finding that the academic who wrote the Australia@Work report as about as red as you can get. In the wake of the last Howard Victory in 2004 he had a personal crisis. Let's hope he has a complete organ failure after the next one. He told a crowd of lefties in a public forum in Surry Hills (figures) at that time about how cool Mao was and a bunch of other crazy stuff.
He is now crying foul saying that people should read his report rather than attack him personally. C'mon, man. Who has time for that? Nobody except pollies and other acedemics. The broader public is entitiled to make a perfectly reasonable assessment of his aims in writing the report from other remarks he has made in public. Especially when they are so inflamatory. This guy is biased. very biased.
Good thing for us in the general public that other academics have read the report and are scathing about its conclusion that workers on AWAs earn 100 a week less than those on union collective agreements. This article in the Australian yesterday shows just how far the commie was willing to go to mislead people. He failed to take into account that AWAs are more popular in the private sector than the public, and in certain industries and job types. Basically they have concluded that cleaning staff on AWAs earn less than teachers on unions agreements - or something like that. It says nothing at all about AWAs.
AWAs and their flexibiltiy have contibuted directly to the increase in jobs in Australia because small business is the engine of jobs growth. Small-time bosses almost always work harder than their staff and they need to be able to negotiate with individual employees over the rates of pay. That's a fair go. Why should small business be forced to deal with big unions?
Every business starts out small. Every small business starts out with an idea. A culture that encourages small business is a country that encourages innovation and enterprise. The ALP/ACTU is firmly opposed to allowing people the freedom to act on their own ideas. For as long as the unions run this country it won't be worth the hassle. If you want a future of ideas, optimism and confidence Vote Liberal.
Props to Janet aswell for her recent peice on Rudd as 'girly-boy'. The more women kicking butt on the conservative front the more the phoney image of Rudd will fade.
