ForkinGreat
Knows his Brassica oleracea
That is an instructional article. The headline is sure to provoke negative reactions. Move beyond that and read it to the end.Ha, as I was saying...
https://www.theage.com.au/business/...service-this-time-around-20191231-p53nt1.html
Black Saturday changed a lot, reckon this season will too.
It's far from being an article written by some LNP or murdoch stooge.
Its first budget in 2014 was a long-term plan to improve the budget by what the bureaucrats call “cost-shifting”. Much of the cost of health and education was to be shifted onto the states’ budgets. Some was to be moved to your household’s budget via the $7 charge for visits to the doctor. That budget was so badly received most of those plans were reversed. But Finance Minister Mathias Cormann and his accountants have continued to limit the growth in government spending by penny-pinching in ways that voters wouldn’t notice or object to.
They’ve got welfare dependency to “its lowest level in 30 years” not by getting the unemployed into jobs, but by using petty excuses to suspend people’s dole payments. How do these unfortunates live without money to live on? They fall back on their families or go cap-in-hand to the Salvos or Vinnies. Get it? The feds are cost-shifting to charities – the same community groups whose grants they’ve cut back.