Labor mulls wage rises for only the poorest

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.