billy blog ... some alternative economic thinking

Today I listened to a most extraordinary interview on the ABC AM program with the Federal Workplace Relations Minister, Kevin Andrews. Transcript here. The topic was the Government's pending industrial relations changes and the minister was responding to the accusations from the Salvation Army that the legislation would be unethical. The Minister said in part when he was challenged about this:

... the most fundamental ethic is to ensure everyone who wants a job can get one. Unemployment is an evil. I  More ...