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@davej@dice.camp
2025-09-16 22:36:12
Content warning: CW: auspol, welfare.

After its worst electoral defeat ever, the #LNP’s new direction is… to punch down?
Let’s set aside, for a moment, their eternal hate-boner for the unemployed and the disabled.
Howard relentlessly porkbarrelled seniors and created millions of middle-class welfare dependants who kept the LNP in power for 20 of the last 30 years. Now *they’re* fair game, too?
There’s nobody at the helm. Ley…

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Australians too dependent on government, says Sussan Ley By Tom Crowley In her first major economic speech, the opposition leader hits out at universal subsidies and says "dependency" has affected Australia's "national character". https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-17/australians-too-dependent-on-government-says-sussan-ley/105781276 #FederalGovernment #GovernmentandPolitics #FederalParliament #Welfare #TomCrowley