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Salient. Official Newspaper of the Victoria University Students' Association. Vol 44 No. 11. June 2 1981

Political Point Scoring

Political Point Scoring

Equally, indirect tax changes are reflected in changing consumer prices, and hence are allowed for in the method. Any attempt to get agreement for the FoL and CSU to take account of tax cuts would, therefore, do no more than require them to continue with the method of approach that they have adopted consistently during the last four years.

It is interesting to note that in the past it has been the Government and the Employers' Federation that have attempted to play down the value of disposable incomes in the determination of money wage rates.

One can only conclude that once again the unions are being strung along for the purposes of political point scoring, or that the Government is trying to use them as the scapegoats for its own inability to come to terms with the problem of tax reform and wage-policy reform.

Rebecca Hamid