In my view of the world, UCCs are fundamentally bandaids that do not solve the underlying issues. Where we have chronic care, they are missing in action.
Under these changes, businesses with enterprise agreements could be given preference for government contracts, grants and procurement opportunities. That has nothing to do with delivering value for taxpayers.
Under Labor, health labelling has been undermined, point-of-sale controls have been undermined, legal retailers have been undercut, revenue has been lost, organised crime has thrived and Australians are paying the price.
When hospitals and aged-care providers cannot recruit permanent doctors, nurses, midwives, allied health workers and aged-care staff, they are forced into a desperate cycle of locums and agency nurses at enormous cost.
So I say to this government: listen to Vince. Listen to the young Australians asking, 'Why bother?' Scrap this tax, stop punishing effort and restore hope.
Labor have done more than rewrite the electoral playbook—they have thrown it out, burnt it on a pyre of all their other broken promises.
This government continues to invest in its pet projects that are not fit for purpose in the regions, like urgent care clinics.
Amid Treasury's fairytales and fantasy stories told in the budget papers on estimates and assumptions—under the thumb of the Treasurer—are unbelievable revenue projections from these tax measures.
Right now more than 230,000 Australians are waiting for aged-care services. The average wait time is 12 months, and 5,000 people have died while on that waiting list.
