1. No worker’s personal time should be exploited to the point where their private lives are critically impacted. But are we really saying answering the odd email or taking a call from your boss on the weekend or getting up early to message a colleague or client on the east coast to allow for the time difference does that? As I read through some of the right to disconnect cheerleading this week (hello Adam Bandt) I found myself asking, is this the way we drive our country forward? Is this the spirit with which we built our great nation? Is this the attitude which has meant good people can work hard and get ahead? No it is not. Not in WA, that’s for sure. Hard work and common sense have been the cornerstones of our prosperous communities. Let’s not surrender those qualities which have set us apart.
2. Purely as an observation, I thought Peter Dutton’s decision to go after what he called “the culture that’s so far left at the ABC” during an interview with Sarah Ferguson on Wednesday night’s 7.30 program was bold. As a study in tactics, clearly the Opposition Leader has decided the best form of defence in that regard is to attack.
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