John Howard's proposed industrial laws would hit battlers and destroy the Australian ideal of a "fair go", former prime ministers Paul Keating and Bob Hawke said yesterday. Bob Hawke said the changes would slash minimum wages and working conditions.
"The whole concept of the Australian fair go was that you had a decent system, which meant that as part of growth the lower socio-economic classes got their share," he said.
Paul Keating accused Mr Howard of dropping a past guise as a "wolf in sheep's clothing" to reveal himself as "a wolf in wolf's clothing". "He now intends that his blue-collar battler friends should have it in the neck."
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