Penalty rate cut shows nothing has changed
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Opinion: Penalty rate cut shows nothing has changed

Eric Hughes, HuntingdaleComment News

PAYING a penalty.

This action by the Liberal Party on penalty rates is exactly the same thing Mr Abbott and Mr Hockey did to the pensioners when they said we had to do the heavy lifting by tying the pension rises to the CPI, where our increase was $4.90 per fortnight .

Of course this was to help with the tax relief of 1.5 per cent for those poor millionaires. Nothing has changed .

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ERIC HUGHES, Huntingdale.