andie74,
you have made some very good points re the "bigger picture".
The casualisation of the workforce is part of john howard's long term political agenda and will see the average worker's conditions and living standards decline in Australia as we have never seen before.
Minimum wages, no loadings or penalty payments etc, etc.
It is an out and out attack on the middle class the results of which will leave us with a US style social structure.
We will end up with the society we deserve unless those with so much to lose wake up and smell the coffee...........................
Jettlager