Ah.......how nice it is to have QF longhaul's number one hater join in the debate on casualisation.
The concept of which was "sold" by the business community to the broader community as a way for them to balance the peaks and troughs in the business cycle by having a proportion of their workforce employed under these "flexible" arrangements.
The changes balert is referring to don't relate to the rest of the world of course but rather john howards changes to the rules re these arrangements.
It wasn't too many years ago [5 or 6] where casual employees HAD to be offered a full time position if their casual employment lasted beyond 12 months as clearly there were positions for full time staff available.
These rules protected the workforce by preventing business from using [the original concept of] casualisation as a way of avoiding paying proper and decent wages and conditions in this country.
john howards changes saw and end to these protections, the results of which have seen businesses like qantas move to casualise massive proportions of their workforce.
The ONLY way to get a qantas flight attendant job is under these arrangements [unless you are prepared to leave the country]
The net effect [beyond ever increasing company profits] of these arrangements is to create a class of people unable to effectively participate in our society.
Banks won't lend to them for cars or houses because they lack security of income. I can't imagine what it must be like to bring up a family under these arrangements.............
Australia was once a fair country where the community universally recognised that as a nation we were wealthy enough for ALL to have a degree of quality of life, even if it was nothing beyond a car, a house and a holiday once a year.
You aren't right about much balert but you are right about the times are a changing.
The electorate ARE a wake up to the lies, deceptions and societal changes that have occured over the last 10 years and the lying little toad in canberra is looking decidedly uncomfortable.
A large percentage of the voting public have children AND serious concerns about the society these children will inherit.