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Dear Australian government
You're doing lots of good things at the moment - apologising to Aborigines, dismantling the stupid industrial relations laws, admitting that certain ministers have too much power. I appreciate it, I really do.
But, for the love of god, can you stop employing the term "working families" when you want to get all inclusive-languagey on us? I work. I don't have a family (ie. children), and I never will. I'm also old-fashioned enough to dislike the term "family" when used to refer to (generally married) childless couples. Plenty of people, who work and pay taxes, are single. Plenty of people, who are contributing members of society, are unable to work, for various reasons. Some of those (*koff*) layabouts aren't in "families" either.
So can we stop using the stupid bloody term? It's not inclusive, actually. Even if it did apply to me (and everyone else), it sounds as patronising as fuck. It's just as bad as the previous lot talking about "middle Australia", and that's saying something.
But, for the love of god, can you stop employing the term "working families" when you want to get all inclusive-languagey on us? I work. I don't have a family (ie. children), and I never will. I'm also old-fashioned enough to dislike the term "family" when used to refer to (generally married) childless couples. Plenty of people, who work and pay taxes, are single. Plenty of people, who are contributing members of society, are unable to work, for various reasons. Some of those (*koff*) layabouts aren't in "families" either.
So can we stop using the stupid bloody term? It's not inclusive, actually. Even if it did apply to me (and everyone else), it sounds as patronising as fuck. It's just as bad as the previous lot talking about "middle Australia", and that's saying something.