This budget is a welcome change from the do-nothing outings of recent years.
But still the government that declines to tax fossil fuels in any kind of reasonable way, & continues to pour billions into the threadbare protection racket known as Aukus, cannot find funds to provide disabled, unemployed, underemployed, & old folx who depend on benefits for their livelihoods, with a livable income. Or safe homes. Or to fund public education to an adequate standard. Or public health.
Instead we remain entangled in a media schoolyard game where the fatuous spinners of bullshirt 🤡🎪🎡are accorded airtime as ‘the opposition’, while the real opposition - the Greens & independents who could actually hold Labor to account - are sidelined.
If we taxed our rentier classes equitably we could provide equitably for all. If not now, when?
I’ll always preference increment over insult but we can do so much better.
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