Australian national cabinet exploits pandemic for economic restructuring
By Mike Head
22 August 2020
Despite continuing COVID-19 deaths, especially in Australias chronically-underfunded aged care facilities, yesterdays meeting of the bipartisan ruling national cabinet focused on further reopening the economy for the benefit of corporate profit.
The federal, state and territory government leaders paid lip service to the aged care catastrophe, which had claimed 302 lives by today, and to the hundreds of infections daily in the state of Victoria.
However, the cabinets priority was clearly to exploit worsening unemployment and financial distress facing working people to ram through the further restructuring economic and workplace relations…
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