Joe Hockey says he is really, really, sorry the disadvantaged may have somehow got the impression he, or the government, did not care about them. Because in fact the government is doing its “very best” for the disadvantaged – by making the welfare and health systems “sustainable” with the policies outlined in the budget. Those policies include the cuts to health, pensions, welfare, education and family payments which have resulted in multiple sets of modelling concluding that the impact of the budget is unfair. And they don’t include numerous other ways spending could have been cut, or revenue raised, and the budget brought back to surplus, which would not hurt the poor.
Posted on: Sat, 16 Aug 2014 05:35:21 +0000