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17b in tax cuts. 1.8b energy relief 2.6b for aged care nurses. Money to pbs. 8.5b to medicare. 1.8b to hospitals 793m womens healthcare. 3 day guarantee for subsidised childcare Tax relief for some small businesses 50b in defence

brb resigning from McKinsey to move to Kyiv

Leaving over 3 million in poverty ✅ Money for war but not the poor✅

Yes. That's what's meant to happen. Tax indexation and bracket creep are both ways of recognising the political difficulties of raising income tax rates over time. Howard preferred it to indexation. 'Tax cut discourse' is, therefore, largely a self-contained political pantomime.

We are deeply disappointed that, not only did the Budget contain nothing for people on social security, but the Government has cut 600 jobs from Services Australia. We have just started to see improvements to call and processing wait times, and the job is far from done.

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Reminder that smoking is a public health issue that disproportionately affects the poor. "if we're thinking about smoking as a public health issue, we should be looking a bit further upstream and thinking about cost of living and addressing poverty." abc.net.au/news/2025-03-2…

Who were the main beneficiaries of the Albanese govt tax/welfare changes 2022-25? smh.com.au/politics/feder…

The last time @albomp tweeted about poverty

A continued issue with electricity and fuel subsidies/excise cuts is that the majority of lost revenue is to higher income households. In the case of the fuel excise cut about 2/3rds of the savings go to the top 40% who frankly don't need it. theguardian.com/australia-news…

The question asked was, "Why won't the government raise the rate of JobSeeker to match the pension. The government went to the 2022 election promising "No One Left Behind". They left a million people behind on day one of the campaign with a flat out refusal by the PM... 🧵

Various housing policies announced today helpful to the lucky few mostly mid/hi income families who benefit (and likely would become homeowners anyway) but nothing for those who genuinely struggle financially.

>greens suffer a 0.5% negative nationwide swing >lose 3 seats apologise to Wheel reinventor

Something this obvious should not be a headline. But here we are.

In light of the NSW Premier’s comments this week on the tobacco tax, have a read of our op-ed in the guardian from a few months back theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Vienna's housing system isn't perfect, but it's undeniably better than any of the privatised, neoliberal alternatives. "Through political choices, [it] managed to set up a regime of housing provision that prioritises housing as a basic need." Justin Kadi: theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

My article in The Guardian on why Australia should not adopt a flawed, rights-infringing definition of antisemitism to censor the media, discipline universities, police the arts and exclude immigrants - & why Israeli crimes fuelling hate must be addressed theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

The curious case of the disappearing smoking data. The Roy Morgan release was unequivocal: smoking rates among young adults are up after vaping ban which had "demonstrably failed". And then it disappeared and was replaced with something more amenable. thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/health/20…