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Finance Minister Simon Birmingham didn’t even try to defend the Coalition’s pre-election rorting of a scheme to build commuter car parks.
“The Australian people had their chance and voted the Morrison government back in at the last election and we are determined to get on with local infrastructure, as we are nation-building infrastructure,” Birmingham told the ABC’s
Insiders yesterday morning.
Birmingham said the quiet part out loud. The government no longer cares about getting caught pork-barrelling, so long as it wins elections. And so long as it can ride out any brief political fallout, and wait until a distracted electorate forgets, it knows it won’t suffer any real consequences. That’s why, a day before the latest Australian National Audit Office (ANAO) report dropped detailing the government’s blatant misuse of the Urban Congestion Fund, Bridget McKenzie, briefly sidelined over her role as the architect of sports rorts, returned to
Historical sexual harassment complaints off limits in Canberra
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Finance Minister Simon Birmingham says historical sexual harassment complaints will not be investigated by the independent body which is being set up to deal with allegations in Parliament House.
“It’s unlikely to go back through previous parliaments indefinitely, but certainly it will provide for now and into the future a model that actually enables people to have confidence that their complaints can be heard and investigated,” Mr Birmingham told ABC’s
Insiders on Sunday.
Working families will be thousands of dollars worse off over the next four years as wages fall behind the cost of living.
The Federal Government s May budget forecast wage growth would be outpaced by the cost of living over the next two years.
It will finally increase and reach the same level over the third and fourth years.
Families on average household incomes are likely to be down anywhere between $9,000 and $21,000.
A couple earning $170,000 will be $3,800 worse off this year, and $4,300 next year.
Australian working families are expected to become $21,000 worse off over the next four years as wages fall behind the cost of living (stock image)
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