Barnaby Joyce got jumped on earlier in the week when he told The Australian: “I really am struggling now to work out how Labor’s stance is that different from WorkChoices”. But why aren’t his other comments from the same story being examined more closely? Christian Kerr investigates.
Lock stock and barrel
IR policy gives the lie to Rudd’s economic credibility
Crikey / Thursday, 9 August 2007
In Kevin Rudd’s “me too” scramble to replicate every conservative economic thing that John Howard is, there’s one glaring difference, the threat of wage-induced inflation. Even though Rudd would not wish wage-induced inflation onto the Australian community his undertaking to destroy WorkChoices ”lock stock and barrel” would most likely ignite that inflationary flame.
