In their rush to appease big tech billionaires and open up Australia as a destination for hyperscale data centres, Labor governments at all levels have demonstrated how little respect they have for the people living in their so-called “safe seats”.
Australians lose more money to gambling than any other nation on earth, per capita. That an industry can prey on some of the most vulnerable people in society should be a national scandal.
The government thinks that discussions with the National Tertiary Education Union are "very good". That's because it looks like NTEU officials are prepared to sacrifice their members’ livelihoods for nebulous and unenforceable undertakings about job numbers.