#BudgetReply
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"...[In] the policy Taylor announced. He announced a blanket exclusion of permanent residents from the major welfare programs of the Commonwealth. He did it on national television. He did it with the explicit framing that non-citizens are a fiscal problem to be solved. And he did it in a country where roughly one in six residents is a non-citizen, and a much larger share than that lives in a household with at least one non-citizen sitting at the dinner table."
The #LNP Leadership has fallen into the eroneous idea that voters and their votes can be reckoned as 'tokens', accounting numbers to be debated about and used to come up with targeted policies that will stop the #BleedinoOfVoters to #PHON. This is good analysis, worth the read:
https://redbridgeintel.substack.com/p/the-second-last-budget-reply-delivered




