With any luck, Australians have seen the last budget from Jim Chalmers. ‘Dr’ (he has a doctorate in political ‘science’, rather than economics) Zippy chose to mark the occasion with what Labor clearly regard as the ultimate vote buyer: a tax cut.
Of sorts.
Even Chalmers couldn’t disguise how pitiful the tax cut is: a whopping five bucks a week. Not even enough to buy a sandwich and a milkshake. Worse, it gets wiped out by bracket creep. But it’s all about trying to grab friendly headlines ahead of an election call, most likely today.
Anthony Albanese is planning to call the federal election on Friday, taking heat out of Peter Dutton’s budget-in-reply address and broadening Labor’s election away from this week’s budget.
Multiple Labor sources have confirmed to the Australian that the election will be called tomorrow for a national poll on May 3.
How many more billions of our money are Labor going to splurge to save their miserable hides by then? Throwing us a few crumbs in return ain’t gonna cut it.
Especially when Chalmers’ pathetic tax cut was immediately gazumped by Peter Dutton.
Peter Dutton will commit to halving fuel excise for millions of families and workers in a $6bn pre-election pledge that he will sell as providing immediate cost-of-living relief in contrast to Labor’s “70c-a-day in a year’s time” tax-cuts commitment.
In his budget-in-reply speech on Thursday night, the opposition leader will promise motorists that a coalition government will reduce petrol and diesel excise rates from 50.8c to 25.4c per litre in a cash splash for votes weeks out from the May election.
If you’re going to try and buy votes, at least do it for real. This is clever politics, more than anything, as it reaches right to the hip pocket nerve of Struggle Street voters who’re commuting hours a day from suburbs sprawled ever further outward by mass immigration.
The Liberal leader is also expected to use his speech to commit the Coalition to lowering power bills, provide more details on measures to unlock gas, make deeper migration cuts to free up homes and outline plans for a sizeable increase in defence spending […]
The coalition estimates that a fuel excise cut, which would be introduced on the first parliamentary sitting day of a Dutton government, will save households up to $28 a week on average. A household with one vehicle filling up a 55-litre tank once a week would save about $14 a week or an average $700–$750 over a year. Households with two cars would save up to $1500 in the same period.
But all this pork-barrelling isn’t enough. Australians are looking for leadership. Dutton would be far better off making his pitch on some real policy bravery: promise to slash mass immigration (and mean it) and spend some real money re-building our hollowed-out defence capability. Voters aren’t stupid: as the US elections showed, they’re prepared to wear a bit of pain to try and save their country from the Long March left.
More importantly, they’re fed up to the back teeth with millions of foreign mendicants flooding the country, year in and year out. Dutton’s wishy-washy ‘commitments’ to ‘substantially lower’ migration rates aren’t nearly enough of what voters want to hear. Not when, in just a few years, ‘Singh’ has become Melbourne’s most common surname.
One Nation Leader Pauline Hanson has called to slash migration amid Australia’s deepening housing crisis, as the coalition promises a “substantially lower” immigration rate should it form government […]
Speaking to Sky News Australia on Wednesday night, Ms Hanson anticipated the coalition will propose migration cuts when it delivers its budget reply, but warned “quite a reduction” will be needed to tackle the housing crisis.
“They are going to aim for it (a lower migration rate) because they’ve been listening to the Australian people, but will it be low enough?” Ms Hanson told Sky News host Chris Kenny […]
Ms Hanson suggested the net overseas migration figure should sit around 130,000 per year – half of Labor's estimate for next financial year – until Australia can achieve a more “manageable” immigration rate.
How about cutting a ‘Net Zero’ Australians can really get behind? Slash immigration to match population decline and only bring in people with not just skills but the cultural compatibility to fit in to Australian culture and not change it to a clone of the third-world shitholes they crawled from with hands held out for the gibsmedat.
Start with the illegals.
One Nation’s immigration policy will see an estimated 75,000 illegal immigrants deported immediately and cut immigration by 570,000 from current levels under Labor.
Party leader Senator Pauline Hanson said it was time for the Australian Government to serve the interests of Australians first and ensure it met community demands on immigration.
‘Refugee advocates’, boat-chasing lawyers and tilty-headed lefty nosey-nannas will squeal, of course. The trick is to ignore the screeching of the chattering classes and listen instead to the sotto voce mutterings of the vast swathes of voters who have just had enough.
