"Thanks for the Christmas
presents Mr Howard! Our lives
will be unbearable"
Million Mothers March started on Friday 2 December 2005 at 12 noon on Parliament lawn, Canberra.
More people - including mothers, fathers and children - continued the next day with Manuka Mums opposed to IR
laws
and we will keep going until we can see a future where fairness, freedom and "for all Australians" means caring and
compassion for each other - not callous competition.
10 years ago the Million Man March of protest and unity converged on Washington DC.
Now it’s the turn of all Australians who don’t accept the Howard’s government’s proposed laws on Workplace
Relations, Welfare and Terrorism to show our faces and our feelings.
Why Mothers? Many of us are mothers. Most of us had mothers. Mothers will be disproportionately damaged by
the Welfare and Workplace changes. But not only mothers. Millions of people in Australia will be adversely
affected by these unmandated inhumane laws.
And with the Terrorism sedition provisions you will lose the right to even read about it
- let alone speak about it!
Mothers, fathers, kids, people will have to work in even more substandard conditions and for even less money.
Individual workers will lose their rights to get together and act for each other.
The Government is pushing all of these changes through by Christmas.
What a wonderful selection of presents for mothers, children, and people who are
disabled, pensioners, workers, or unemployed!
Unwrap the packaging and what do you get? All this legislation has horrible consequences – not unforeseen either.
Anyone can see the disadvantages sole parents and their children will suffer under the wicked Welfare to Woe
package. It won't just mean losing out on payments. People will lose current benefits such as health care cards,
transport concessions, and access to public housing. Parents in particular -will end up being minus almost everything
except the kids they are trying to look after!
Anyone who has a heart – anyone who had a mother or has been a child – anyone who is half way human
– join us and each other to restart Australia's heart!
If you want to help or discuss this idea, please contact Ariel by email at mongrielle@bigpond.com
or phone 0411 852 452
Million Mothers March begins with one step...and one mum!
revised 6 December 2005
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