Labors racist ad

 

If you were watching the 6pm news last night, you may have seen the debut of Labor’s new ad campaign that will target marginal electorates and “mix patriotism and protectionism”.

The ad says Labor will “put Australians first” when it comes to jobs and procurement.

And it shows opposition leader Bill Shorten standing next to a group of ~everyday Aussies~.

But people couldn’t help noticing one thing about the ad…

Yep,  all the people chosen to represent Australians appear to be white.

It did not go unnoticed on social media.

Plenty of people thought the ad was just flat out racist.

Telegraph 

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by The Australian Financial Review

They can't have imagined how it turned out this way, but the Labor Party is backing a position on the China-Australia FTA that is a straight up racist form of protectionism – if not in intent, then certainly in effect.

Labor's line – that we are for free trade agreements except when we are against them – proposes singling out China among our other trade treaty partners, for special, unfavourable treatment on so-called "labour market testing". This practice, where jobs have to be advertised in Australia before foreign labour can be employed, was abolished in 2001 because, according to the Migration Council Australia, it was ineffective. Reintroduced by Gillard Labor in 2013, it applies to a minimal range of professions under 457 visas.

Labor's ChAFTA proposal would extend testing to areas not covered by other FTAs, including one Labor concluded with Chile in 2009. Of the proposals put by Labor, Trade Minister Andrew Robb said: "There is nothing that I have seen that is not China specific." This xenophobic policy, which the unions, led by the CFMEU, are vociferously pushing, wants to ensure market testing, as well as introducing an extra testing regime for – again Chinese – workers that might come to work in the trades.

The campaign has nothing to do with protecting Australian jobs, but with preserving union privilege. Australian unions have a monopoly on labour in some sectors – such as on thug-ridden large construction sites. 

 

They have past form on this, with a "yellow peril" campaign directed at potential Chinese investment in NSW power assets during the March state election campaign. Bill Shorten's support is a payoff to the unions who helped him defeat the party's progressive left at their July conference, backing an Abbott-style stop-the-boats policy. The campaign features newspaper ads, TV ads with foreboding music and a worried family discussing how Chinese will take their jobs. There are robocalls in at least 20 electorates. With a rumoured war chest of more than $12 million to fight with such unsavoury tactics, the unions have extracted a high price from Mr Shorten for their support.



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