The wages war rages on with more good material from the suddenly less Fake Left over the weekend. Mike Seccombe at The Saturday Paper:
Back then Tony Abbott’s chosen employment spokesman, Eric Abetz, led the scare campaign, doing his very best to talk up the threat of an economy-wrecking wages breakout. He was never clearer than on January 28, 2014, four months after the Coalition won, in a speech to the right-wing Sydney Institute, where he specifically demanded that employers suppress wages.
Abetz spoke of how frustrating he found it, in opposition and now in government, to watch “weak-kneed employers caving in to unreasonable union demands”. He told employers to “just say no” to wage rises.
