Devorppa

Devorppa, 15 days ago to auspol

Greg Jericho provides a plain speaking assessment of the ‘Labor’ government’s priorities - which appears to be doing anything but to help the unemployed. What he calls the Budget Commandment: “Everything is affordable if we choose to care about it”. It is worth the read.

The current ‘Labor’ government talks a big game about the Hawke/Keating legacy, but has not followed in their footsteps in helping those unlucky Australians who need the most help.

What is the actual point of having a Labor government?

#auspol

https://www.theguardian.com/business/grogonomics/2024/may/02/the-federal-budget-reveals-what-governments-actually-care-about-and-labor-has-chosen-to-keep-jobseekers-in-poverty

Devorppa, 1 month ago to australia

The French parliament has passed legislation that will enable the Government to set a floor price for farmers products, which is reviewable every four months.

The change will guarantee a minimum rate of return for French farmers.

It seems to me that if we are ever going to break the monopoly power of #Woolworths and #Coles in #Australia, then this is the sort of forward thinking approach needed by the #Albanese Government.

They would, of course, just have to locate their collective back bone again (last seen when they changed the Stage 3 tax cuts, but misplaced soon afterwards) and stop being a largely pointless waste of space.

#auspol

https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2024/04/05/l-assemblee-nationale-approuve-la-mise-en-place-de-prix-planchers-pour-les-agriculteurs_6226017_823448.html

Devorppa, 3 months ago to auspol

David Littleproud pretends that he represents rural farming communities.*

Rural communities include some of the poorest communities in the nation

One might have thought that Littleproud would be ecstatic that the redistributed Stage 3 tax cuts will benefit the people he pretends to represent and not the ‘latter sipping elites in the cities’ But apparently not.

• The Nationals actually represent big mining and don’t give a tinkers cuss for rural communities.

#auspol

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/jan/29/david-littleproud-accuses-labor-of-class-warfare-over-stage-three-tax-changes-saying-190000-is-not-a-lot

Devorppa, 3 months ago to australia

I see that #Australia’s most despised former Prime Minister has finally, after almost two years, found himself a job in the USA … largely because no one in Australia was willing to take the reputational risk of employing him.

Good luck to you SlowMo, bugger off to America and don’t come back … unless it is on a boat …

#auspol

Devorppa, 8 months ago to auspol

I notice a lot of Australia’s major listed companies have lifted their annual profits or posted record profits - Woolworths and Qantas come to mind. That means that they didn’t just make the same obscene amount of profit as last year - they made more.

So every dollar you spend at Woolworths, remember the food is costing you more because they are making a record profit … in the middle of a cost of living crisis. They are screwing you for something you need to keep living - food.

All this goes to prove that we are in a Profit Price Spiral and not a wage price spiral.

Worker deserve decent pay rises that match inflation. Wages are not driving inflation.

Join a Union and get organised

#auspol