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The tax cuts promised by John Howard & Peter Costello will not compensate working families for the Work Choices IR laws and the costs of losing the protection of union-negotiated agreements. Previously confidential Department of Employment and Workplace Relations documents leaked to the media have shown that a further 1.5 million workers will be forced onto AWAs if it is re-elected. It is very likely that Victorian health workers will be included in this group.
When the Medicare Agreement comes up for re-negotiation next year, it is almost certain that a re-elected Liberal Government would impose AWAs on all health workers as a condition of funding, in the same way that it did in higher education in the last funding round. The $20 a week tax cut for average workers promised by the Liberals is nowhere near enough to cover the $106.00 pw loss in pay from Work Choices & the increases in housing, petrol, childcare, health and food costs. There have been five interest rate rises since the last election and mortgage repayments are up an average of $65 a week. There is no way the Liberals’ promised tax cuts can cover working families’ rising living costs as well as the impact of Work Choices.
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