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‘Diverse range of opinions’ on Voice in regional communities: Dutton
Peter Dutton did not mention the Uluru Statement from the Heart in his budget reply speech, as opposed to the treasurer, Jim Chalmers, who began his speech Tuesday night backing it.
I was up in Alice Springs last week and Thursday Island the week before, so we’ve been speaking with local elders and women in particular in many of those communities.
I’m listening to their voices at the moment and having an understanding of what they believe the Voice is about and what they want from a Voice and in fact whether or not they support a Voice.
There is a lot more to do to provide support and to remove some of the barriers for [women] go back into work. If you’re a family with three young kids in childcare, you’ve probably got for your, for one of the partners to return to work – normally to the mother in a relationship – you end up having to earn probably, you have to gross about $120,000 a year before you’re at a break even point.
Yes, I think that’s reasonable. And we’ve just got to be careful about what’s happening in the industrial relations space at the moment, because if we price ourselves out of competitive market, where we’re up against other countries that don’t have industrial relations system that Labor’s about to introduce this as a throwback to the 1980s.
One of the things we don’t do well in the Liberal party is we don’t market well what we did. We’re good at governing and we often clean up Labor’s messes … but we don’t market well enough what we did.
Continue reading…In his Boyer lecture, Pearson said Australia’s ‘terrible ideology of the denial of recognition’ needs to end. Follow the day’s news live‘Diverse range of opinions’ on Voice in regional communities: DuttonPeter Dutton did not mention the Uluru Statement from the Heart in his budget reply speech, as opposed to the treasurer, Jim Chalmers, who began his speech Tuesday night backing it.I was up in Alice Springs last week and Thursday Island the week before, so we’ve been speaking with local elders and women in particular in many of those communities.I’m listening to their voices at the moment and having an understanding of what they believe the Voice is about and what they want from a Voice and in fact whether or not they support a Voice.There is a lot more to do to provide support and to remove some of the barriers for [women] go back into work. If you’re a family with three young kids in childcare, you’ve probably got for your, for one of the partners to return to work – normally to the mother in a relationship – you end up having to earn probably, you have to gross about $120,000 a year before you’re at a break even point.Yes, I think that’s reasonable. And we’ve just got to be careful about what’s happening in the industrial relations space at the moment, because if we price ourselves out of competitive market, where we’re up against other countries that don’t have industrial relations system that Labor’s about to introduce this as a throwback to the 1980s.One of the things we don’t do well in the Liberal party is we don’t market well what we did. We’re good at governing and we often clean up Labor’s messes … but we don’t market well enough what we did. Continue reading…