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“You simply can’t achieve something like that by accident. Reckless indifference, perhaps. Wilful acts of bastardry, more likely. Accident, no,” he said.
Henry, who called for personal income tax rates to move with inflation, said not only were young people being hurt by increasingly high average tax rates, other policy areas were stacked against them.
“Young workers are also being denied a reasonable prospect of homeownership,” he said.
“They are burdened by the punishing costs of securing a tertiary education.
“And it is they who will have to bear the multiple burdens of catastrophic environmental destruction.”
As an older Gen X, I agree.
In my defence, I voted Independent for the first 20 years and have only Voted Green for the last 20 and I have never voted for any politicians who has ever won either at a local, state, or federal election.
That said, look what happened when Shorten tried some reform polices at the election before last, Australin’s voted en masse for fcuking Morrison! So… what do voters ?
Half of what this guy wants to do is pretty stupid and regressive (both senses). He’s not wrong about how cooked shit is though.