Isn’t it time for Labor to make a stand and have their own policies instead of following the ones of the Coalition?
We have been having a housing crisis for decades. Through the great social policies of the Coalition the poverty in our society is so big now, that nearly five million people are trying to get free or cheap food through some welfare/foodbank outlets. There are even people queueing up who have one or more jobs. Should that not be a cue for Labor to step away from the stage three tax cuts which give people earning over $200k a year a nice big tax break, while the ones around $50k get hardly anything?
We all remember that women over fifty are the fastest-growing group of homeless people in a rich country like this, that is so shameful. Let’s look at the funding for our schools. How can it be that private schools get such a huge handout while the public school system is more than struggling and teachers are leaving in droves – being overloaded, overworked and stressed, feeling not appreciated and supported. What madness!
And what about the AUKUS coalition? Did the Morrison government ever bring this to the people, that we will now have nuclear weapons from our allies being positioned in this country? That he committed us to pay $368 billion plus for some submarines, after paying $5 billion to France for lying while some military experts doubt their usefulness. Aren’t we opening ourselves up to being the nuclear waste dump for the UK and US?
Haven’t we learned anything from the war when we followed our big warring brother in the search for weapons of mass destruction? What a shameful end to our operation in Afghanistan, leaving so many helpers behind and now charging the whistleblower, David McBride, for speaking up. Shameful!
Hearing Penny Wong stuttering when being asked about their actions for Julian Assange while they were in the US a few months ago, makes my blood boil. And while the Secretary-General of the UN said at the end of last year: ‘No more bottomless greed of the fossil fuel industry and its enablers’, Labor is still handing out fossil fuel licences.
It’s time for Labor to protect our native flora and fauna. Not just talking about the Great Koala National Park and letting the NSW Forestry Corporation log as much as possible beforehand. These people are looking for nocturnal creatures in the daytime!
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