fordy on 06 September 2012
| Gamerace said: My the press like to take her out of context. I don't think she's saying Australians should work for $2 a day, she's merely pointing out that they don't live in a vacuum. It's a global economy. All our telecommunications and many other jobs have all moved to Indian and the Philippians because it's much cheaper to hire people there. Most of our manufacturing industry has left our country to go to countries with cheap labour and poor regulations. It seems Australian has lost some great mining opportunities because it's not profitable enough to be there. So she's right to question it. However, she seriously needs to hire handers so she's not being crucified every week. |
The problem is that she thinks she's above the law. We could tell that when she was arranging to import workers who could work in her mines and not be subject to minimum wage laws. Other miners have to abide by it, so why does she think she doesn't have to? How about instead of trying to find shady ways around the rules, take a bit of a pay cut yourself. Did she think the gravy train of barely regulated mining was going to last forever?
Oh, and if she's so envious of African workers wages, nobody is stopping her from going to Africa and leaving the valuable minerals of Australia to the Australian people. You want our minerals, you play by the rules.
