Adam speaking against a bill to drug test people on income support
What do you do if you’re a government who’s in trouble in the polls? What do you do if you’re on the way out, you’ve been caught out looking after your big corporate mates at the expense of everyone else and you’re pressing ahead saying, ‘Let’s give tens of billions of dollars worth of tax cuts to the big banks at the same time as they’re being hauled before the Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry and potentially facing criminal actions’? What do you do if you’re a government who’s sitting watching pollution go up at a time when we have a record heatwave in the Northern Hemisphere and everyone’s telling us we need to make sure that we don’t leave a planet and an Australia for our kids that are worse than the ones that we inherited? What do you do if you’re a government under whose watch youth unemployment and underemployment have reached crisis levels so that we’re at the point now where just on one in three young people in this country either hasn’t got a job or hasn’t got enough hours of work? What do you do if you’re this Liberal government? You find someone else to go and beat up on—preferably someone who isn’t going to be in a position to defend themselves. If you’re this Liberal government, you don’t go after the crooks in the corporations, you don’t go after the big banks and you don’t go after the big polluters—you go after the people who are doing it tough and who are trying to find a job and can’t get one. And you blame those people, if you’re the Liberals, for not finding jobs that just aren’t there.
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