One of my sisters is a legal secretary. Soon at her work they might have to start clocking on and off everyday because of new Workchoices laws or something. But it's not everyone, just the 'blue collar' workers, while the lawyers won't have to. Obviously I have to rethink my definition of blue collar, because I always assumed secretaries for some reason were white collar. I was wrong then.
Now, I've never been interested in politics, but I'm starting to actually care. I don't mind whether the liberals or labor are in power, as long as they take turns running the country so that there's a nice balance. For example, if the liberals start making insipid moves towards the privatisation of tertiary education, four years later, labour can come back in and turn it around or at least slow it down for a while. And making such a distinction between lawyers and their secretaries is just not on, I work in admin and I already know how much it sucks to think that you could easily be doing the job of the person you're doing menial tasks for, and to further such a distinction is totally against everything I was raised to believe in. Hence the begging of the question:
What is happening to this country? Even I, who has never payed attention, am starting to 'get' it.

Speaking of my sister, she has applied for a two year stint in a law firm in the Cayman islands. I am totally excited for her, because she hasn't travelled in ages and has been wanting to do it but has never saved up the cash. She's got an interview with the HR manager on Wednesday.  ¶ 12:15