Media Release
Jenny Macklin MP
Shadow Minister for Families and PaymentsShadow Minister for Disability Reform
Acceptance
of the recommendations of Tony Abbott’s Commission of Audit would
represent a full-scale attack on Australian families and their standard
of living.
As usual with this government, low and middle income earners will be hit the hardest.
Reductions
in family tax benefits alone would leave a family with two children
aged 4 and 6 years, on an income of $80,000 per year, worse off by
almost $5,000 each year.
A
single parent family with two children on $50,000 a year will have its
payments reduced by almost the same. These cuts are going to hurt.
Add
to that proposals for a new deceit tax, a new GP tax and a new
hospitals tax and Australian families have much to fear from the
upcoming budget.
Labor
understands that Budgets involve tough choices. And in government,
Labor took tough choices. But they were responsible choices, such as
means testing the Private Health Insurance Rebate and abolishing the
Baby Bonus.
By
contrast, this government has concocted a budget emergency as cover for
a dramatic agenda of cuts and austerity that will hurt Australian
families.
Tony Abbott is making the wrong choices for Australian families, and for Australia.
Tony Abbott’s priorities are completely twisted.
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