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May 19th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Victoria’s Labor Party will host 100 open community forums across the state in the next 18 months as it tries to convince voters that, unlike the Liberal government, “Labor cares”.
Opposition Leader Daniel Andrews told Labor’s state conference on Saturday that Ted Baillieu’s first 18 months in government had pulled Victoria backwards, and that the premier’s only strength was blaming others.
The party faithful guffawed at the conference in Melbourne when Mr Andrews likened Mr Baillieu’s efforts to that of a school student with a late assignment excuse: “I’m very sorry, but the dog ate my leadership.”
Mr Andrews said the government’s recent budget made a mockery of its promise a year ago to create 110,000 new jobs over two years, with none created this financial year and just 7,000 earmarked for 2012/13.
He said 49,000 jobs had been lost since the government took office in 2010, and youth unemployment was running at a 14-year high of more than 22 per cent. He also slammed the cutting of 4200 public sector jobs.
“Mr Baillieu is the only one who thinks the answer to a jobs crisis is to sack people,” Mr Andrews said.
Mr Andrews also savaged the government’s hospital waiting-list performance, the scrapping of the small start bonus and maintenance allowances for schools, as well as its big cuts to TAFE funding. He called on Education Minister Peter Hall to resign.
Mr Andrews vowed a Labor government would scrap the “anti-worker, anti-union” Construction Code Compliance Unit and reintroduce free whooping cough vaccinations for all parents of newborn babies, which the Liberal government recently cut.
He also promised the Australian Nursing Federation, whose Victorian president Lisa Fitzpatrick was in the audience, that under his leadership, the union would never again have to negotiate to protect nurse-to-patient ratios, as it did in a long and bitter dispute with the current government.
Mr Andrews said 100 “Labor Cares” forums would be held across Victoria in the lead-up to the 2014 election. Two have been held already in Ballarat and Bendigo.
Mr Andrews said the party wants to engage directly with residents and listen to their concerns, with “no stage management” and “no spin”.
“We have to show Victorians … that unlike Ted Baillieu we are on their side,” he told party delegates.
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