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Budget Night Thread (aussie.zone)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (12 children)

Biggest cost of living relief is the stage 3 tax cuts
$300 for energy bill relief for all Australian households, beginning July 1 (eligible small businesses will receive $325)
10% increase to Commonwealth Rent Assistance ($1.9 billion)
Cheaper medicines under the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS)
Waiving $3 billion of student HECS-HELP debt (and adjusting the indexation rate)
Aim to build 1.2 million homes ($6.2 billion)
Superannuation to be paid on all government-funded paid parental leave ($1.1 billion)
Limit university students based on how much student housing they build
Sunshine Coast rail link

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (11 children)

Queenslanders are also getting a $1000 rebate from the state government. So in total, $1300 off our energy bills in the next financial year.

Kind of shocked the federal government are giving $300 to every household.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

He’s getting grilled about that now on 7:30 report!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

As he should, like all the critics are saying, how they hell is this not being means tested!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

Sometimes means testing can become more expensive and time consuming than just getting the benefit out the door to everyone.

Plus its less popular because you inevitably have the murdoch-whingers crying about the less wealthy being undeserving by dint of their lack of wealth, and also people complaining over edge cases that miss out.

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