G'day John,

It’s been a busy two weeks in the Senate – I am looking forward
to getting back to God’s country for a week!

Senator Pocock and I have been working together to get four
pieces of the government’s industrial relations bill through
parliament. The government calls this bill “Closing Loopholes’ –
it’s what they call an omnibus bill – which basically means that
they stuff every workplace change they want to make into one
bill.

This one is 278 pages long!

There are good bits; like not making federal first responders
prove they have PTSD, stopping discrimination against victims of
family violence, bringing silica in line with asbestos, and
making sure that workers get redundancy when the large business
they are working is going out of business. Nobody in Canberra
disagrees with these changes, so we split them out of the big
bill and we got them passed through the senate, but the
government is being stubborn and won’t put them through the lower
house – I’ll keep pushing, it’s not over yet!

There are other good bits of the bill, but a lot of is pretty
complicated, and I am really worried about pushing a big bill
like this when our economy is in trouble.

For people like me, politicians on a very good salary, the
cost-of-living crisis can just be a headline. But I know for many
Tasmanians and Australians it’s a daily struggle and I think
there is a hell of a lot more that all levels of government could
do to help struggling families.

I spend a lot of time thinking about where else our state
government could find more money, so I asked the parliamentary
library to do some digging and what do you know? They’ve spent
over $81 million on consultants like PWC! I think that’s rubbish,
and probably more about government spin than it is about making
the lives of everyday Tasmanians better.

I hope you’re all OK, I know it’s going to be a tough Christmas
for a lot of people.

If you’re doing it tough and don’t know where to turn, our Burnie
office can direct you to services that could help. Send us an
email or drop by.

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Finally, my re-election is coming up and I've been hearing on the
grape vine that the majors are going to spend big in Tassie to
try and knock me out. I guess they're sick of having someone
around who tells it like it is.

If you've got a few spare dollars (and only if you do!), can you
chip in to my re-election fund
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without working together.

Jacqui

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