Our appalling government has cancelled overnight outstanding claims to get equal pay for low-paid women — Government’s political gamble backfires as backlash to pay equity reform grows:
Hundreds of people turned out … to protest the government’s fast-tracked changes to pay equity laws. … Many protesters expressed outrage not just at the substance of the legislation but its speed – introduced on Tuesday morning, passed by Wednesday night.
They're unravelling our democracy and our country strand by painful strand.