There are SO many problems with this budget and Abbotts policies that it is impossible to list them in one post. Here are a few that things that piss me off. *Breaks a promise to only cut the foreign aid budget by $4.5 billion and cuts it by $7.9 billion instead * Abolishes the highly successful Youth Connections program that supports young people who have not completed, or are at risk of not completing Year 12 or equivalent qualifications also costing hundreds of community sector jobs *Breaks a promise of “no new taxes” by introducing a fuel levy *Cuts $500 million from indigenous programs over five years *Undermines Medicare by imposing a $7 fee increase for GP visits *Sacks the National People with Disability and Carers Council — which pushed for and then helped build the NDIS *Ensures a human rights enquiry into the Manus Island detention centre is shut down and human rights lawyers are denied access to the centre *Cuts welfare payments to orphans of soldiers * Introduces legislation to allow people aged between 17-24 years old to work for half the minimum wage and be exempted from all other work rights including health and safety laws and protections should they be injured at work theaimn/2014/05/15/tracking-abbotts-wrecking-and-broken-promises-post-budget-2014/
Posted on: Mon, 26 May 2014 03:58:00 +0000
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