HELP OUR WORKERS
I am writing to you to voice my concern about the cuts to penalty rates.
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I live in an area where there are many low paid retail and hospitality workers and it seems to me that they always bear the brunt of any attacks on wages and conditions.
This doesn't seem to be very fair at all.
These people are lucky to take home on average six hundred dollars a week.
If I've understood this properly they will be taking a pay cut of quite a few thousand dollars per year.
This decision needs to be revisited with a view to overturning it.
I hope that you can at least start the discussion and help our decent local workers.
Chris Poleson, Ambarvale
HUNTING FOR A REACTION MAYBE?
It is inspiring to see the mixture of outrage, disbelief and laughter filling the media since PETA sent our request to the iconic Australian band Hunters and Collectors asking them to change their name.
PETA will be shedding “True Tears of Joy" if the band agrees to make a point about the appalling and gratuitous annual slaughter of some 300,000 peaceful water birds that is about to recommence in Victoria and Tasmania.
Of course, the Hunters and Collectors are not themselves out there with high powered rifles and a taste for blood, but when hugely popular bands are "Talking to a Stranger" it is easy for people to get the wrong idea, and think that because the music is great, the words in the band's name must also be admirable.
An "Easy" change of name won't put the band "Back on the Breadline", but may well make some fans think about the fate of animals who, going peacefully about their business, are blasted from the sky by hunters, just for some sort of twisted fun.
People love to laugh at PETA and our media releases, and we encourage everyone to do so.
We're laughing too.
Laughing at the absurdly disproportionate outrage of some commentators who took the story a little too seriously, and of course at the fact that this simple request is still, days later, getting people laughing, shouting, commenting and most of all thinking about the exploitation of animals.
Any response is better than to "Turn a Blind Eye".
"When the River Runs Dry", PETA will still be there, fighting with weapons of laughter and tears against animal abuse.
Ashley Fruno, Associate Director of Campaigns, PETA Australia
ON THE HUNT FOR POLITICAL CORRECTNESS
Given that rock group Hunters and Collectors is squarely in the sights of the wacky Greens in relation to a name change the question now begs what do they have in mind for Sydney suburb of Hunters Hill?
D J Preece, Balgownie
ARE YOU BUYERS TRYING HARD ENOUGH?
While it is extremely difficult for young buyers to get into the property market, are they trying hard enough?
We’re all investors in the long run and while our own block of dirt and then the house eventually being built on it when we could afford it was a huge struggle, I do wonder would young buyers be prepared to go through that today?
Ok, so it was different back in the sixties when you could get away with living in a temporary dwelling for five years.
So much of the young buyer’s wage today seems to be spent on the best and latest technology, entertainment, cars, boats and travel and some of it while still living with Mum & Dad.
It does make you wonder if they’re saving enough for the deposit to actually get into the property market.
Brian Johnson, Gymea