Incoming Nationals’ leader Michael McCormack must put working people in regional areas first if he wants to restore the party’s damaged standing with voters, ACTU Secretary Sally McManus has said.
She called on the new leader of the ailing junior coalition partner to prioritise youth unemployment, the temporary visa crisis, damaging trade deals, low wages, coercive work-for-welfare schemes in indigenous communities and the hollowing-out of the VET sector.
At the 2016 Federal Election the party received less than five percent of the primary vote, and it has been diminished in the eyes of voters by the Barnaby Joyce scandal.
Quotes attributable to ACTU Secretary Sally McManus:
She called on the new leader of the ailing junior coalition partner to prioritise youth unemployment, the temporary visa crisis, damaging trade deals, low wages, coercive work-for-welfare schemes in indigenous communities and the hollowing-out of the VET sector.
At the 2016 Federal Election the party received less than five percent of the primary vote, and it has been diminished in the eyes of voters by the Barnaby Joyce scandal.
Quotes attributable to ACTU Secretary Sally McManus:
- “Mr McCormack must put working people in the regions first if he’s going to be a good, effective leader for his party.”
- “Young people in regional areas can’t get a start, while one in ten people in our workforce are on temporary visas. TAFE has been gutted and real jobs have been replaced by $4 per hour internships.
- “People who want to work are forced into unfair work-for-welfare arrangements because the Turnbull/Joyce government killed real work opportunities.
- “Rather than being content to sign off on policies that shift money out of regional communities and into big business bank accounts, Mr McCormack has a chance to stand up for working people in regional Australia.
- “He must take that chance.”
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