Tuesday\u2019s budget will be pork-barrelling at its finest. A desperate, spent government trying to stave off a landslide. Imagine if we recast the budget – to create a viable future and make Australia both better and fairer! Together wants Australia to take 10% of its budget \u2013 that\u2019s $50billion and spend it differently:
\n\u2022 A Climate Economy Fund – $10 bil \u2013 to invest in renewables, an ETS, repair our rivers, new business and jobs
\n\u2022 Homes for all Australians – $10 bil \u2013 building homes for the homeless, for renters and first home buyers
\n\u2022 More Medicare – $10 bil \u2013 for better public hospitals and access to specialists, free dental and ambulances
\n\u2022 Our Learning Nation – $10 bil for funded places at university and Tafe and boosting research and innovation
\n\u2022 Better Society – $5 bil – doubling the ABC budget, arts funding, legal aid, federal ICAC and national DV action
\n\u2022 Trickle Up Economics – $5 bil into start-ups, social enterprise, more for NDIS and Newstart and UBI trials
\nTogether wants action on tax. Companies like Exxon, Energy Australia and Ikea need to pay their fair share. Then we can shift the balance even further. The budget currently picks winners and we need to pick new ones. We can:
\n\u2022 move subsidies for fossil fuels into renewables \u2013 to fund Climate Economy projects
\n\u2022 wind back of negative gearing \u2013 to fund Homes for All Australians
\n\u2022 reversing increases in defence spending over the last 5 years – into Our Learning Nation
\n\u2022 use the Banking Levy to start a publicly owned bank
\n\u2022 move our wasteful financing of off-shore detention into on-shore justice.
\nThe time for tinkering is over. The time for bribing the nation with tax cuts is done.
\nTogether we can change #auspol, create a viable future and a better, fairer Australia \u2013 by picking new winners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tuesday\u2019s budget will be pork-barrelling at its finest. A desperate, spent government trying to stave off a landslide. Imagine if we recast the budget – to create a viable future and make Australia both better and fairer! Together wants Australia to take 10% of its budget \u2013 that\u2019s $50billion and spend it differently: \u2022 A … Continue reading “The Together Budget. What would you do with $50bil?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}