I watched part of Albanese’s Reply. I thought he waffled too much, was more like a campaign speech.
We are in for the mother and father of all recessions—even depression—and suggest anyone on government benefits keeps a fair bit of money as cash. The fucking Libs have already frozen pensions, is a pension cut too far away? Don’t think so. What about PS pay, that going to be frozen/cut too? Probably. Sounds a lot like The Premiers Plan Scullin had to adopt because the Commonwealth Bank would not advance him money for public works—Australia had one of the hardest and deepest Depression in the Great Depression and those times are going to come back. Will homeownership be included in the pension asset test? Very likely.
Will the stupid Indue card be rolled out very widely—doubt it, the company running it is totally inefficient, costs $10,000 per client per year, not a budget saver then.
So in the face of a Depression the idiot Libs will go and cut the spending power of people who HAVE to spend all the money they get while having given big tax cuts to people who will save them. Stupid, but it is the (neo)Liberals so goes with the territory.