>Laws introducing the most dramatic overhaul of welfare entitlements....
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>This combined with "Industrial Relations" reform by the Liberals will turn up
>the heat on the class struggle. "IR" reform means that you need to sign an
>individual workplace agreement with your employer. You can refuse, of course,
>but then you're confronted with the now torn, tearing saftey net.
If you refuse, you will be cut off the dole. The dole is conditional on accepting any job offer, so long as the job pays award wages. With award wages being replaced by the new minimal conditions, the dole will then become conditional on accepting any job, even one that with sub-standard conditions.
So the conjunction of these two changes are no co-incidence.
Bill Bartlett Bracknell Tas