Thread by @AdamBandt

This is a budget of bribes that funds coal and gas and makes housing more expensive.

It’s a sham. Luckily, this is the last Liberal Budget we’re going to have to put up with.

Cutting through Frydenberg’s Budget night BS in this thread 👇

#budget2022 #ausvotes2022

He starts off with lip service about the climate floods – fuelled by coal and gas that Liberal and Labor want to increase.
This budget gives over $37.6 billion dollars in fossil fuel subsidies.

The Liberals say Australians are ‘resilient’.

We have to be.

We’ve put up with almost 10 years of your bullshit.

The Liberals love to talk about jobs.

Not good jobs though – they’re jobs with fewer hours, that are less secure and lock out young people.

.@JoshFrydenberg, so why did you just reject Greens’ move in the Senate to give government backed insurance to all flood victims?

Thousands are homeless. They need this.

Again: you don’t get to talk about ‘extreme weather’ when you’re making it worse. These aren’t ‘1 in 500 year’ floods. Thanks to coal and gas, food disasters have now come once a month.

This budget gives $3 billion to renewables and disaster preparedness, but more than 10 times that in handouts to coal, oil and gas corporations.

Climate-fuelled floods, droughts and bushfires will get worse because of Liberal and Labor’s plan to open up 114 new coal and gas projects.

Cuts to fuel excise and petrol savings could be wiped out overnight by changes to global prices and profiteering by oil and gas corporations.

In 6 months, according to the Liberals, you’re on your own with the cost of living.

This budget gives millionaires & billionaires $9075 a year.

The Greens will permanently boost the pension by almost $250 a fortnight - not $250 an election.

Our plan lifts people out of poverty with rates raised to $88 a day.

When the Greens said we needed a publicly owned MRNA manufacturer, the Liberals laughed it off.

Now, two years later – Frydenberg’s saying it’s a priority. A bit late, mate.

No new funding for electric vehicles and what about High-Speed Rail? Brisbane-Sydney-Melbourne-Adelaide. That would be truly transformative.

If you don’t want a car park, Frydenberg doesn’t care.

The funding for ending gendered violence is well short of what is needed, around a fifth of what women’s organisations have been calling for.

Paid Parental Leave should be 26 weeks and Liberals still refuse to support the Greens policy to include superannuation payments.

The Aged Care Royal Commission said we need an extra $10 billion a year in funding, this budget has only half that.

The Liberals would have you pick which of your parents get care.

Cuts to uni funding and a real plan would cancel student debts, make uni and TAFE free and remove so-called “voluntary” fees charged by public schools.

Education shouldn’t be a debt sentence.

#budget2022

Oh good! Frydenberg remembered to speak about the environment.

But he forgot to mention the $5.4 billion for the Hells Gate Dam that threatens the dying Great Barrier Reef.

And $128.5 million to remove environmental approval protections. Oops.

In his budget speech, the Treasurer mentions war machines more than climate change.

Our communities are already being destroyed by coal and gas.

The real enemy is the climate crisis.

#budget2022 #ausvotes2022

Josh Frydenberg finishes his speech by saying that our country is being ‘tested’ by drought, fire, and floods.

So why does he want more coal and gas?

No mention of the word ‘integrity’ in the Treasurer’s speech.

Guess the Federal ICAC isn’t a priority, then.

No matter: we’ll set one up after the election and let them loose on Morrison’s frontbench!