For those who say I am being too critical of the Government’s ‘wellbeing budget’…
Tribalism aside – If you look at the fine print, the budget was NOT transformational and it makes the politics of kindness seem like a sick joke.
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I think almost everyone on the Left who are trying to underplay what Treasury did hasn’t read this…
I’m not nearly as clever as my woke comrades on Twitter, but wtf is ‘beltway’ about Treasury knowing they weren’t hacked but then telling everyone they were? Shouldn’t we be incandescent with rage at such a manufactured deception by one of the most powerful Government Departments?
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Dr Liz Gordon: Too many chicks in the nest
It is not that we did not know overturning thirty years of neo-liberalism would be a huge job. But last week’s budget began to bring into focus how big the gap is between a decent society and the rampant inequalities, shortcomings, failures to provide and so on that we currently have.
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Political Caption Competition
I didn’t survive the war for this
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Budget 2019: Funding an industry to pick up the pieces at the bottom of the cliff
The only transformation in the budget is a transformation in the meaning of transformation.
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TDB Top 5 International Stories: Tuesday 4th June 2019
5: Lobbyist Tied to Trump’s Transition Was Just Arrested on Child Porn Charges
4: ‘Bloody massacre’: Sudan forces kill at least 30, protesters say
3: AMAZON OFFERED JOB TO PENTAGON OFFICIAL INVOLVED WITH $10 BILLION CONTRACT IT SOUGHT
2: How Voter Suppression & Gerrymandering Cleared the Path for Unprecedented Abortion Bans
1: Swedish court rejects request to detain Julian Assange -
The Daily Blog Open Mic – Tuesday 4th June 2019
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Monday 3rd June 2019
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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The People’s Budget: Hosted by Bryan Bruce
Can Neoliberalism build a wellbeing budget? Has the Government been transformational?
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – “Wellbeing” who would not be for it?
Is there really no more money for teachers when we are running a $5 Billion surplus and have one of the lowest rates of government debt in the OECD?