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Abbott's agenda: did Australians really vote for this? : Comments
By Tristan Ewins, published 12/11/2013The Abbott government is playing at 'Robin Hood in Reverse' – as a number of observations demonstrate.
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Posted by Tristan Ewins, Wednesday, 13 November 2013 10:12:15 AM
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Priorities would be implementing Disability Care, increasingly the chronically underfunded Newstart payment, implementing comprehensive national aged care insurance; investing in infrastructure in infrastructure poor working class suburbs, investing in social housing, investing in renewables research and energy infrastructure, investing in fast rail and so on.
Even over a period of 10 years that would still peak at $60 billion to $75 billion in today's terms - ie: in the context of a $1.6 trillion economy. (ie: an increase in social expenditure of between 4% and 5% of GDP. Leaving us still far behind the Nordics.