Abstract:
What with all the bleating and whining coming from teachers and health-workers and the like, you’d think they are the only ones suffering as a result of the change of government in Victoria. Yet if the concept of solidarity still has any meaning, surely we should spare a thought for those whose fall has been greater, whose degradation has been more abasing. School cleaners who have had their incomes amended by a paltry fifty per cent should count themselves lucky in comparison with the new poor who are emerging from the wreckage of a decade of Labor rule.
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