The letter from Erich

On Thursday the 6th of March the above undated letter arrived at the Chudleigh store from the Tasmanian Liberal Senator Erich Abetz. A Liberal pre-election bribe it rephrases previous pledges in favour of the employer rather than the worker and, being undated, Abetz could claim that it was sent after the election. Abetz has a track record regarding dates and documents; that is how he entered parliament.

In the Federal pre-election Liberal policy announcement made in August 2013 by Abbott the following was promoted:

….provide a one off payment of $3250 to any Tasmanian business that hires an unemployed job seeker who has been on Newstart Allowance for six months……..The minimum period of continuous employment required to qualify for the payment will be six months……….applies to only the first 2000.

This should be compared with the Abetz letter which fails to mention the requirements as above of: six months on Newstart….continuous employment…. and the first 2000.

Abetz is the master of the slick and this brought forward scheme becomes the perfect scam when redrafted as:

The Government has announced the early commencement of the Tasmanian Jobs Programme which offers additional incentives of $3250 to assist you to grow your business by employing eligible Tasmanian job seekers……..Media Release Senator the Hon. Eric Abetz Tasmanian jobs programme starts six months early.

By bringing the scam forward by six months Abetz promotes the state Liberals at no cost to their bottom line and deliberately before the State election. It is now written as being for the benefit of the employer, a probable swinging Liberal voter with no mention of the unemployed, a probable Labor voter.

Abetz the master of the MIS scam is off and running again.

Will a Greens Senator in the Senate raise the subject of Erich’s land deals on the Channel Highway and his subsequent Capital Gains tax implications and the payment thereof, a matter detailed here on Tasmanian Times: here

The Senate is not a gentleman’s club for it is no longer inhabited by the Honourable.

• Should you be forced to vote if you can neither read nor write?

I consider this to be an extremely important matter.

A report by the Australian Bureau of Statistics for 2011/2012 shows that half of all Tasmanians aged between 15 to 74 are functionally illiterate.

And more than half are functionally innumerate – meaning they don’t have the skills needed to get by in the modern world, like filling out forms or reading the instructions on their prescriptions’.

And this is the 21st century!

I ask therefore: Should they be forced to vote?