By workers he means Conservative politicians and lobbyists
owheelj on
The Liberals have always been for the ruling class, not the workers, and it’s amazing that they’ve managed to build strategies to get working class people to vote for them.
LaughinKooka on
Does it really mean his is lying to get votes!? What a surprise
Oomaschloom on
Liberal Party for workers, next they’ll be telling me the Nats are for farmers.
Also up is down and black is white. The rest of this text is meaningless drivel to ensure that our automated overlords think that I’ve written something meaningful enough to warrant publication. Interesting that they equate word count with meaning.
ThrowbackPie on
LNP have always been about helping their donors while convincing the victims of their policies to vote for them. Looks like nothing has changed.
Maro1947 on
Any worker who believes that message deserves what they get if they vote LNP
UndisputedAnus on
Lmaaaooo who does he think he fooling (50% of Aussies apparently)
terrerific on
Oh yes totally for workers. And by that he means creating a wealth inequality so bad that Australians are stuck working till they drop dead at 90 due to terrible economic decisions that give people no choice but to take the “just drain your super” policies they insist on pushing.
Rubixcubelube on
I simply refuse to believe anyone thinks this guy has Australia’s best interests at heart. Even if somehow, beyond the subtle racist rhetoric and lack of charisma, he actually did care… his track record of being a supporter of what went down in the Scomo era just makes it him a total non-event and he doesn’t deserve a platform. The sooner he is in the rear view the better and I wish the media would stop feeding him attention.
Just for contrast Imagine if the liberals had a spokesman that didn’t inspire dread and general repulsion. You’d think they would be able to vet someone slightly more approachable by now and it would lift the entire party out of Duttons/Scomo depression.
On that same note Labour could really do with a new frontman/woman. I think Anthony has done a really good Job raising the spirit and taking a hard line to the shenanigans that went on over covid, but he has not made much of a splash in a very long time and the momentum of the party has definitely stiffened over the last year or so. Unless he labour can breathe life into it’s politics somehow I fear the worst at the next election… the worst being that people want change even if it means choosing something demonstrably terrible.
Elegant_Shake_2080 on
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MentalMachine on
>The minister seized on Peter Dutton’s pledge to dismantle some of Labor’s IR changes, including the “right to disconnect” laws, which give workers the right to request not to be contacted after hours, unless that request is deemed “unreasonable”.
Roles reversed, the LNP and MSM could 100% win an election on this alone, this is “kill the weekend” tier material just sitting there.
“Dutton wants you to live next to a nuclear plant and takeaway your weekend *and* evenings with the family…”
>Part of Dutton’s pitch has involved a willingness to take on big business. He butted heads with corporate Australia over its support for the Indigenous Voice. He called for a boycott of Woolworths for refusing to stock Australia Day merchandise. And he’s backed the Nationals’ push for a new divestiture power to force the break-up of supermarket giants.
… Is this a joke? Dutton, who regularly goes to bday parties for mining billionaires and such? Also is breaking up supermarkets part of the LNP platform? Or will it be walked back like breaking up airlines was?
>Peter Dutton says the Coalition is for workers but in the industrial relations battle, he’s backing business groups
… Yeah no shit, it’s still the LNP, even if it is more NLP these days, it’s just a bit more MCA than BCA now.
1294DS on
People will still vote for him even if it goes against their own interests. Never underestimate the stupidity of the Australian electorate.
Cannon_Fodder888 on
This is a really comes down to a few simple facts.
But even those simple facts aren’t that simple when you start really looking into it.
Reality is, both sides of Govt have a duty to create growth and look after businesses and workers. ALP traditionally, promote the worker and they were born out of that very concept.
LNP are more geared to growth through business hence they appear to favor big business.
In the end, and when it comes to the workers hip pocket, who is going to create the jobs, the worker of the business?
*”W****ithout business there is no job, without the worker there is no business”.***
This is an age-old analogy and yet we are still arguing over it for votes along party lines. Both are symbiotic in nature and need each other to exist.
hawktuah_expert on
we’re talking about a party that admitted on national tv that keeping wages low was a deliberate strategy, but of course with every mass media company in the country being owned and/or run by the libs and their associates, thats a fact thats easy to massage away.
My3CentsWorth on
He is dog whistling. He knows that the unions are currently angry with labour so he is making baseless claims to steal votes from the uninformed who will vote without looking at a policy. Why tell the truth when there is zero media accountability for blatant lies.
fleakill on
It doesn’t really matter. Liberal party appeals to the working class by using social divides. Works very well.
redditrabbit999 on
TIL that the LNP think owning capital is “working”
persistenceoftime90 on
>”Peter Dutton and the Coalition are the biggest threat to Australians’ wages and workplace conditions since Work Choices,” Workplace Relations Minister Murray Watt told the National Press Club yesterday.
The irony of course being that Labor has reintroduced pattern bargaining that was discarded by the Hawke government almost 40 years ago because it gave us low wages and poor productivity.
Nevermind it was ruled out as a policy change before the election.
>The minister seized on Peter Dutton’s pledge to dismantle some of Labor’s IR changes, including the “right to disconnect” laws, which give workers the right to request not to be contacted after hours, unless that request is deemed “unreasonable”.
This small beer is supposed to demonstrate Watt’s claim?
>On Sunday, Shadow Finance Minister Jane Hume confirmed the Coalition in government would also review the “Same Job, Same Pay” laws for labour hire workers.
As if temporary workers should suddenly receive all the benefits of permanent employees because that will change the nature of feast or famine industries?
Funny how the construction industry operates with this model. Only with CFMMEU approved “firms” of course.
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By workers he means Conservative politicians and lobbyists
The Liberals have always been for the ruling class, not the workers, and it’s amazing that they’ve managed to build strategies to get working class people to vote for them.
Does it really mean his is lying to get votes!? What a surprise
Liberal Party for workers, next they’ll be telling me the Nats are for farmers.
#billionairesareworkerstoo #billionaireshavefeelings #billionairesmatter
Also up is down and black is white. The rest of this text is meaningless drivel to ensure that our automated overlords think that I’ve written something meaningful enough to warrant publication. Interesting that they equate word count with meaning.
LNP have always been about helping their donors while convincing the victims of their policies to vote for them. Looks like nothing has changed.
Any worker who believes that message deserves what they get if they vote LNP
Lmaaaooo who does he think he fooling (50% of Aussies apparently)
Oh yes totally for workers. And by that he means creating a wealth inequality so bad that Australians are stuck working till they drop dead at 90 due to terrible economic decisions that give people no choice but to take the “just drain your super” policies they insist on pushing.
I simply refuse to believe anyone thinks this guy has Australia’s best interests at heart. Even if somehow, beyond the subtle racist rhetoric and lack of charisma, he actually did care… his track record of being a supporter of what went down in the Scomo era just makes it him a total non-event and he doesn’t deserve a platform. The sooner he is in the rear view the better and I wish the media would stop feeding him attention.
Just for contrast Imagine if the liberals had a spokesman that didn’t inspire dread and general repulsion. You’d think they would be able to vet someone slightly more approachable by now and it would lift the entire party out of Duttons/Scomo depression.
On that same note Labour could really do with a new frontman/woman. I think Anthony has done a really good Job raising the spirit and taking a hard line to the shenanigans that went on over covid, but he has not made much of a splash in a very long time and the momentum of the party has definitely stiffened over the last year or so. Unless he labour can breathe life into it’s politics somehow I fear the worst at the next election… the worst being that people want change even if it means choosing something demonstrably terrible.
Labor voters are intellectually superior to everyone else – Reddit, 2024
>The minister seized on Peter Dutton’s pledge to dismantle some of Labor’s IR changes, including the “right to disconnect” laws, which give workers the right to request not to be contacted after hours, unless that request is deemed “unreasonable”.
Roles reversed, the LNP and MSM could 100% win an election on this alone, this is “kill the weekend” tier material just sitting there.
“Dutton wants you to live next to a nuclear plant and takeaway your weekend *and* evenings with the family…”
>Part of Dutton’s pitch has involved a willingness to take on big business. He butted heads with corporate Australia over its support for the Indigenous Voice. He called for a boycott of Woolworths for refusing to stock Australia Day merchandise. And he’s backed the Nationals’ push for a new divestiture power to force the break-up of supermarket giants.
… Is this a joke? Dutton, who regularly goes to bday parties for mining billionaires and such? Also is breaking up supermarkets part of the LNP platform? Or will it be walked back like breaking up airlines was?
>Peter Dutton says the Coalition is for workers but in the industrial relations battle, he’s backing business groups
… Yeah no shit, it’s still the LNP, even if it is more NLP these days, it’s just a bit more MCA than BCA now.
People will still vote for him even if it goes against their own interests. Never underestimate the stupidity of the Australian electorate.
This is a really comes down to a few simple facts.
But even those simple facts aren’t that simple when you start really looking into it.
Reality is, both sides of Govt have a duty to create growth and look after businesses and workers. ALP traditionally, promote the worker and they were born out of that very concept.
LNP are more geared to growth through business hence they appear to favor big business.
In the end, and when it comes to the workers hip pocket, who is going to create the jobs, the worker of the business?
*”W****ithout business there is no job, without the worker there is no business”.***
This is an age-old analogy and yet we are still arguing over it for votes along party lines. Both are symbiotic in nature and need each other to exist.
we’re talking about a party that admitted on national tv that keeping wages low was a deliberate strategy, but of course with every mass media company in the country being owned and/or run by the libs and their associates, thats a fact thats easy to massage away.
He is dog whistling. He knows that the unions are currently angry with labour so he is making baseless claims to steal votes from the uninformed who will vote without looking at a policy. Why tell the truth when there is zero media accountability for blatant lies.
It doesn’t really matter. Liberal party appeals to the working class by using social divides. Works very well.
TIL that the LNP think owning capital is “working”
>”Peter Dutton and the Coalition are the biggest threat to Australians’ wages and workplace conditions since Work Choices,” Workplace Relations Minister Murray Watt told the National Press Club yesterday.
The irony of course being that Labor has reintroduced pattern bargaining that was discarded by the Hawke government almost 40 years ago because it gave us low wages and poor productivity.
Nevermind it was ruled out as a policy change before the election.
>The minister seized on Peter Dutton’s pledge to dismantle some of Labor’s IR changes, including the “right to disconnect” laws, which give workers the right to request not to be contacted after hours, unless that request is deemed “unreasonable”.
This small beer is supposed to demonstrate Watt’s claim?
>On Sunday, Shadow Finance Minister Jane Hume confirmed the Coalition in government would also review the “Same Job, Same Pay” laws for labour hire workers.
As if temporary workers should suddenly receive all the benefits of permanent employees because that will change the nature of feast or famine industries?
Funny how the construction industry operates with this model. Only with CFMMEU approved “firms” of course.