{"id":33383,"date":"2025-06-26T18:28:19","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T08:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=33383"},"modified":"2025-06-26T18:28:19","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T08:28:19","slug":"act-greens-reject-labors-unfair-levy-on-every-day-canberrans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2025\/06\/26\/act-greens-reject-labors-unfair-levy-on-every-day-canberrans\/","title":{"rendered":"ACT Greens reject Labor\u2019s unfair levy on every day Canberrans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The ACT Greens have today announced they will not support the proposal from the ACT\u2019s minority Labor Government to impose a $250 levy on every day Canberrans.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNot only is this levy unfair, but it passes on the failures of both Territory and Federal Labor to create a truly universal healthcare system,\u201d said ACT Greens Leader, Shane Rattenbury.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cA flat levy does not take into account a person\u2019s ability to pay and does not reflect the type of city we want to build. It will unfairly impact a lot of people in our community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAs the ABC reported – it essentially imposes a gap payment on Canberrans \u2013 whether they access healthcare or not, and no matter their income.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMany Canberrans are already struggling, and even those on decent incomes are feeling the pinch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe irony is that this additional levy might be the difference between someone being able to buy essential medicine or healthy food \u2013 both key to maintaining good health, in order to fork out for the Government\u2019s health bill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cA good Budget raises revenue from those who can afford it, like big corporations, before passing the bill on to everyday people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Greens put forward a proposal for a Big Corporations Tax that would introduce a new, higher tax threshold for big corporations like the supermarkets, banks and airlines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCompanies that operate in our city and make billions in profits, like Qantas and Wesfarmers, should be paying their fair share of tax. But instead, they\u2019re raking in massive profits while Canberrans struggle with the cost of living.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNot only is a Big Corporations Tax a significantly fairer way to generate revenue, it also generates more than double the amount the government will receive from every day Canberrans through the proposed health levy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSo the ACT Greens will not be supporting the $250 levy in the Appropriation Bill and we call on the Government to go back to the drawing board and come up with something fairer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Greens recognise that we need to raise enough revenue to deliver the services that our community needs, but this is not the way to do it,\u201d said Mr Rattenbury.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A link to the ACT Greens Budget Reply Speech can be found here: Budget Reply Speech 2025<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The ACT Greens have today announced they will not support the proposal from the ACT\u2019s minority Labor Government to impose a $250 levy on every day Canberrans. \u201cNot only is this levy unfair, but it passes on the failures of both Territory and Federal Labor to create a truly universal healthcare system,\u201d said ACT Greens … Continue reading “ACT Greens reject Labor\u2019s unfair levy on every day Canberrans”<\/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-33383","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\/33383","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=33383"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33384,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33383\/revisions\/33384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}