After this Saturday when the last few rusted-on Labor voters have disappeared down the Ruddhole, Australia should be a much better place to live and do business in.
Not that I agree with everything the Liberals are proposing. Take paid parental leave: six full months payable at full pay, up to $150,000 a year, plus superannuation contributions! Image the number of female employees having their salaries bumped up just before they go on maternity leave! Australia will be a country of $150,000-a-year check-out girls!
And the rip-off won't stop there: the same paid parental leave will be paid to the non-working wives of self-employed people, if they 'contribute' something to the business. From 1 July 2015, every plumber's wife will become a highly-paid finance manager as she settles the monthly bills or a human resources manager as she cuts sandwiches and fills his thermos.
Of course, as always, the Public Service is already one step ahead of private enterprise: they've just introduced twenty extra leave days a year on full pay for domestic violence. Not a bad trade-off for a bit of a shiner!
Question: How many public servants work in Canberra?
Answer: About half. The other half are having an argument with their better half.
