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 Home Campaigns Your Rights At Work News
Government ads heavily criticised in the High Court30 August 2005High Court judges have delivered a stinging attack on the Federal Government's taxpayer-funded ads about its proposed changes to work laws, saying they were like Soviet propaganda. Justice Michael Kirby said the Government's advertisements were like "the press in Bulgaria and Romania used to be, full of the merits of the great party leaders". Justice Michael McHugh said the Government's argument that the advertisements related to higher pay and productivity seemed "divorced from reality". The ACTU and Labor have initiated a High Court challenge to the $20 million campaign on the grounds that the expenditure was never approved by parliament. The Government claims that the single line it included in the budget covering "higher productivity, higher pay workplaces" is enough to cover it for spending as much as it likes of taxpayer funds on the ads. HSU national secretary Craig Thomson said the waste of taxpayers' money on the ads was a disgrace. "We don't even have the detail of the cuts to workers rights before parliament and already they have spent $5 million in taxpayer funds trying to fool people into believing they will be better off," he explained. The case is continuing. Contact Details Health Services Union of Australia hsu@hsu.net.au |
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