![]() For example, the $40 a fortnight rise in the jobless payments will just lift recipients from 41 percent to 44 percent of the poverty line. That was supposedly to take “some of the sting” out of the cost of living, according to Treasurer Jim Chalmers. ![]() ![]() Token “relief” measures were tacked onto the budget-such as an insulting $2.85 a day, not enough for a loaf of bread, for people starving on unemployment or youth allowances, or one-off rebates of “up to” $500 on sky-rocketing power bills. Treasurer Jim Chalmers with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese [Photo: budget, on top of Labor’s first budget last October, means that workers and their families will even more bear the burden of these real wage cuts, plus soaring mortgage payments, rents and prices for food, petrol and energy, while the wealthy enjoy super-profits and massive tax cuts, and hundreds of billions of dollars are set aside for war preparations. ![]()
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