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BUDGET FAILS TO DELIVER FOR WORKING FAMILIES
9 May 2007
South Australian working families will have very little to celebrate from the Howard government's 12th budget.
SA Unions Secretary, Janet Giles says the budget was a classic slight-of-hand, with the tax cut already lost to the new IR laws.
"This tax cut won't compensate for the job insecurity and loss of income resulting from the IR changes", Ms Giles says.
"Furthermore, South Australian workers are on lower wages than those elsewhere in Australia, so their tax cut will be proportionally less than elsewhere."
"The IR changes have cut take home pay by scrapping penalty rates, overtime payments, and leave loadings. The impact of these losses is chronic, and will not be recompensed by a once-off tax cut."
"Tax cuts have already been outstripped by income losses - this is nothing more than a cynical attempt to bribe voters."
"This is a budget which will be welcomed by the big end of town but which fails to assist working families struggling with lower incomes, higher interest rates, escalating fuel prices and climbing cost of living", she says.
"The only way to help working families is to restore fairness and balance to the IR system", Ms Giles says.
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