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Workers across the country have come out to display warning signs for the Morrison Government: all 15,000 of them.
With flatlining wages, the rising cost of living pressures, and an uneven economic recovery from the pandemic, what does the 2022 Federal Budget mean for you?
Funny that. After nine years of keeping wage growth low, the Coalition Government have suddenly realised that people with empty pockets aren’t so easily convinced with their economic wand-waving and empty gestures.
Remember that brief period in 2020 when early childhood education and childcare centres were made free for working parents? That scheme lasted three months before it was taken away again. So what happened?
We have had nine years of wage stagnation under successive Coalition Government, and we are already struggling to keep up with the cost of living. So when ACTU Secretary Sally McManus posed this question on Twitter on Thursday, the responses were eye-opening.
Australian workers don’t need a pay out, they need a pay rise, something that this government has steadfastly refused to make happen over the last nine years.
