Adding Insult to Injury

[izmeina]

Yesss. Izzie so so hates Aussie Rules football and most sports in general. But that is one serious advantage as the cartoon so perfectly puts it. The ma has used the Lair as a warehouse for excess bits of stuff including a television that can only pick up SBS. Not being a TV person, it stays off for months on end. But the ma rather likes the goggle box so the Izzie does get to see bits and pieces on our weekly visits. In the last few weeks, simply cannot get over the almost total saturation of those infernal govt adverts. Bad enough having to look at junk but knowing that your taxes paid for it is even more of an insult. And then the buggers are tossing it in the mailbox too.
The latest instalment is the seriously sad little pamphlet "Climate Clever" Most amusing indeed especially since the Izzie so very vividly remembers one parliament Question Time when the Prime Mendacious constantly denied the existence of this very campaign. (The leader of the opposition way back in April had managed to get his paws on the crappy and ever so corny "Climate Clever" title)

Most strange. Left Oz last year on September 20 with the general government attitude of dismissal to the whole environmental thing. Came back only 8 weeks later to discover that green was the new Black. Even the Lying
Rodent was paying lip service to the whole climate change thing which he had been totally dismissing until consulting Sybil's Opinion Polls.

Oh and most amused to see the latest university study raining on the Rats' parade. It's pretty obvious that the whole structure of individual workplace 'agreements' would disadvantage those with the least bargaining power and when a study comes along and proves this point the rat and his minions are only too quick to cry foul. The academics concerned are most peeved indeed at the questions cast on their credentials and are threatening to sue for defamation. Let the lawyers loose. It could be most embarrassing indeed.
The Iz is ever so reminded of an amazing exhibition seen many moons ago featuring various posters from the 1933 elections in Germany. A certain party had one set of posters featuring big bad hooknosed cigar smoking capitalists and promising the working class protection from these evil creatures. But there was also another set appealing to small business owners and promising protection from the evil communist hook nosed bolsheviks. Talk about having it both ways.
The truth is out. The voters' suspicions have been confirmed - an industrial relations regime that takes from the have-nots and gives to the have-lots. And the Rat is most peeved indeed.

He never uttered a squeak about this grand plan in his 2004 election campaign and there's an awful lot of voters who have not quite forgotten and forgiven this particular brand of evil sneakiness. Those petty appeals to the hip pocket in 2004 have rather backfired when lots of voters whose workplace arrangements have left less in the wallet courtesy of Serfchoice will be out for payback time.

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