ELECTION 2022
Election 2022 opportunity of a lifetime This federal election is a chance to bring Aussie ships back to the coast and get rid of bad labour laws
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he upcoming federal election is one of generational significance. Not only do we have an opportunity to act on many pressing issues on which the Liberals and Nationals have failed us – Australian shipping, climate change and fuel security, among others. The election is also the union movement’s best chance to ensure the bad legislation enacted over the past nine years is abolished and that we can restore fairness and balance in our industrial relations system. The pendulum must swing back in favour of the workers who have carried us through the past few years of the COVID-19 pandemic. Workers throughout our society must be respected and treated as they deserve to be treated. They deserve a pay rise; they deserve job security and their families deserve to know they will come home safely at the end of their shift. We need a government that takes seriously the challenges that arose during COVID and acts to ensure we aren’t left in such a precarious position again. Our nation must become self-sufficient once again. We must begin building and making things here again. We must restore our domestic shipping capacity to provide fuel and food security for all Australians and to protect us against the massive distortions and manipulations of the global supply chain by foreign shipping companies.
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Labor’s pathway to forming a majority government therefore requires victory in 7 unheld seats while retaining all held seats. Over the past year, you would have been bombarded with advertising from the United Australia Party, once more trying to buy an election for the Liberals using the political equivalent of a bait-and-switch. The SMS spam
and billboard advertising they have invested in has cost millions upon millions of dollars, and the people funding it will expect a return on their investment. Most of all, what these people want is for voters who are dissatisfied with Scott Morrison and the Liberals to waste their first preference on a non-Labor candidate who won’t get elected, effectively helping the LNP
“We cannot afford another LNP term in government. We cannot wake up the day after the election wishing we had done more to help.” MICH-ELLE MYERS
www.mua.org.au
