He’s been getting a free ride from the ABC since May ‘22.
I’ll be that one pedantic bore and point out that giving CEOs a tax cut while refusing to raise the Newstart rate ain’t entirely egalitarian.
(Yes, I know it’s not JUST CEOs. But they do benefit)
This is Australian living for young professionals.
Working 45 hours a week plus to go home and live in 24 square metres of space.
■■■■ me.
Probably at 300-500 a week.
Nice country we have eh?
Oh and these salubrious dog boxes sit under the flight 
path in Albos electorate
Last night’s 7pm news on ABC-TV was like a Liberal Fan Club report.
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The Australian is a very serious newspaper.
For some the reason they didn’t plot the bottom result the same way…
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Dan Tehan was at the cricket Grand Final in Warrnambool yesterday.
One of the two teams had Tehan as their #1 member and senior guys from there (Northern Raiders in Purnim) reckon the Libs are filling their dacks and only realised how much trouble they were in a month ago. Stacks of orange kelpies around town supporting Alex Dyson, the independent, over Tehan and endless anti-Dyson clips on Youtube.
All those upfront discounts on the solar panels, to make them viable, are paid for by an additional amount in everyone else’s electricity bills.
It’s called “Renewable Energy Certificates”…in effect, everyone left on the grid, subsidises the people that get solar panels.
I think Dutton’s xenophobic dual citizenship thought bubble backfired on him as preferred leader.
That might work in electorates with lower dual citizens than others.
But otherwise it’s pretty offensive right across cross sections of the community.
Terrible messaging
I also doubt trumps popularity here big time
The hysterical anti-Dyson pamphlets (no doubt you’re copping them as well) attest to that.
NZ is about the only neighbour in the Indo Pacific region which permits dual citizenship.
Apart from Lebanon, NZ , US , Canada and Europe would probably account for most of our dual citizens , with the UK dominating.
They are making some really malignant attacks on the Teal who won Curtin (otherwise Lib heartland in WA) at the last election.
If you’ve ever used one, Urgent Care Clinics are gold policy.
Had to grab my kid from Kinder for a massive head clash, walk in and out of urgent care clinic in 15 mins. Alternative is Emergency Dept.
The more of these the better.
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Yep…I sliced a finger open about a year ago…rang my GP…no appointments available for any doctor at the clinic for the next three days.
They told me about the Urgent Care Clinic (that I’d never heard of before) and where it was…went there and was seen withing 20 minutes.
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That’s still a lot of our people.
And it’s probably deeply unpopular amongst non voting perm residents who I assume are friendly with citizens voting.
It didn’t come across as a measure on tough on crime.
Empowering police, the courts etc is tough on crime.
It’s a cut to the lowest tax bracket , so covers everyone earning an income that’s taxed
Taxpayers pay for the government.
The country would quickly collapse if no one worked.
And they will now pay less.
This is being sold as a cost of living measure. It just seems incomplete that some of the wealthiest people in the country will benefit from it, while the most hard-up get nothing. Cost of living doesn’t care if you work or not.
All income earners.
Its not a tax cut on wealth.
If you want to reduce your cost of living you need to increase your income. A broad as possible tax cut does exactly that.
Easiest way i think , to save all the b ulls hit that happents every couple of years , would be to index the tax free threshold to inflation.
Inflation up 5% , the tax free threshold i think is about 18,000 would go up by $900. Easy. Everybody wins , but the most benefit would be the lowest paid.
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Then you’d get the sooking from either end that I didn’t get that specific wage inflation (not CPI, by the way).
You could probably sync the minimum pay people easily enough, but once we go different rates we’re getting more arbitrary. And it would be ~6-15 months lagging behind, and…
Thats why the low and middle income tax offset was good and the mature age worker offset.
Should be more offsets tied to salary and wage income to lower levels.