Why so quiet Minister Sepuloni? This is amazing and was found by chance on your department’s website. Is vindication for the small group of superannuitants affected by the Spousal Provision applied under section 70 of the Act imminent?
Labour & Green voters don’t need to be so tribal about this – Treasury fucked up, not the Government!
Brian Tamaki is not the messiah, he’s just a very stupid boy but the only winner of pink on pink friendly fire is him – he comes across as less nasty than the latest rainbow schism – it’s like social media was created to show us at our worst to our political enemies.
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.
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?
So I see King Salman of Saudi Arabia’s kicked off Saudi’s chairmanship of the OIC by demanding that the world (and the Muslim world in particular), get tough on the supporters and enablers of terrorism. The country-level supporters, financiers, directors and enablers of terrorism.
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.
The only transformation in the budget is a transformation in the meaning of transformation.
Can Neoliberalism build a wellbeing budget? Has the Government been transformational?
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?
