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The Albanese Govt stumbled into victory last year on the promise they’d leave no one behind. Not a year into government, their budget tonight shows how quickly they’ll betray their roots and the millions desperate for help. A quick breakdown of #Budget2023: (🧵)
DISABILITY🦽 $74.3b ripped from the NDIS over the next 10 years is *unconscionable* when people still so often aren't getting the funding they need in their plans. No funding for Royal Commission implementation, either. Shame, shame, shame.
HEALTH 🩺 No dental into Medicare. No reinstatement of the life-saving better access scheme. Good to see opioid dependency funding (a Greens win!), and $3.5b into tripling Medicare rebates for young families, older folks and concession holders, but what about everyone else??
TAX CUTS ✂️ Labor is pushing ahead with hugely unjust stage 3 tax cuts, which give handouts worth $16.7b to property barons and $41b in fossil fuel subsidies. The spend on those doing it tough is a mere $14b.
INCOME SUPPORT 💰 A very modest rise to payments, mostly geared at older people while leaving younger folks behind. Energy bill relief is good. The DSP goes up for under 21s, but needs to increase for everyone!
CLIMATE ☀️ The treasurer’s speech didn’t mention climate change, which tells you all you need to know 🙄 Greens pressure means there’s more climate funding (yay), but that will be outstripped by spending on fossil fuel subsidies (boo).
MILITARY 🪖 More than an *additional* $11b in defence spending over the next four years, much of which will go to acquiring missiles. Billions on nuclear subs. Pretty grim all round.
WOMEN 👩 No new funding for contraception and abortion access – two key benchmarks of the national women’s health strategy.
This budget does nothing more than lock in inequality and slow down climate progress. With a $4.2b surplus, Labor should be doing so much more for the people who need it, and for our planet.
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