Television advertising is currently highlighting that a third of Australian households are unable to meet their basic food needs and requesting sponsorship for 15,000 schoolchildren living in poverty.
There is unprecedented homelessness and businesses are going bust in record numbers. All this presided over by a Labor government reelected in a ‘landslide’ despite getting only about a third of primary votes. Hardly a democratic outcome.
Despite being among the highest-paid politicians in the world they are now giving themselves a pay rise.
For four decades The Echo has printed the stories some people loved, some people hated, and some pretended not to read. If you want us to keep telling the truth, the real truth, not the sugar-coated version. We’ll need your support to keep the presses rolling. 
