I’ve commented
before on the Labor Party’s move to bring forward the time by which single
parents will be shunted on to the pittance known as the dole.
And,
okay, it’s a done deed and I’m almost ready to roll over on the issue. I would
even go so far as to say the Labor Party’s slogan of “learn or earn” reflects a
good idea in principle but even the principle has been abused by this latest
appalling con.
Today,
the Honorable Jenny Macklin Minister for Families – gosh I feel like I’m channelling
Orwell here – stated distinctly and clearly that she could live on the dole. It
rolled off her tongue and onto Sky News footage with barely a second’s thought
on her part.
Macklin’s
office has now released a transcript of the interview in which the words “I
could” have been replaced by the word “inaudible”. Perhaps someone in her
office has realised this was a transparently idiotic statement that should be
buried as quickly as possible. Perhaps they have no contacts at Sky News. Or perhaps
they simply don’t have an online subscription to a newspaper and are therefore
unable to check what she said.
The
traditional costume for Speaker in Australia
 |
| Archie Cameron, Spkr 1950-1956 |
The wig
might be gone, but the place is still knee deep in horseshit.
Granted,
Macklin is not exactly Stalin, but when did re-writing history become okay?
