Dan Repacholi is smiling. He’s posting victory messages. He’s celebrating what he calls a “win” for workers under Labor’s new Same Job, Same Pay laws. But here’s the truth: while Dan Repacholi celebrates in the Hunter, your electricity bill just went up.
This is the problem with politicians who don’t understand economics—or worse, don’t care. They govern based on slogans, not outcomes. And when you scratch beneath the surface of this policy, you realise it’s not about fairness. It’s about power. Union power. Political power. The power to punish private industry and reward Labor’s backers.
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