Tony Abbott’s Budget reply speech gave a glimpse of what life in Abbott’s Australia would be like.

                                                                 Media Release.


It’s good news if you’re a mining billionaire. Bad news if you’re a student in a school that’s falling behind, a young person trying to put yourself through uni, a low-income worker trying to save or a family that relies on essential services.


Here are the facts, as revealed tonight:

1. We’d lose the opportunity to secure a better education for every child.That’s an extra $9.8 billion that wouldn’t go to our schools. Instead, Tony Abbott would rather stick with a broken funding system that would actually strip $16.2 billion from schools by 2019 and widen the disadvantage gap.

2. His plans would hurt low-income workers hard. Tony Abbott wants to shelve the superannuation increase to 12%. The Coalition said the same thing in 1996 - and they never put it up. And 3.6 million Australians who currently benefit from tax-free contributions to their super, including millions of part-time workers, would be taxed. He thinks it’s more important to balance the Budget by giving big business all the breaks.

3. He’s flat-out lying when he says that no one’s pension or benefits would go down. Tony Abbott’s Budget would strip $210 a year from singles and $350 per year from couples getting payments like the Parenting Payment, Newstart Allowance, Youth Allowance, Sickness Allowance, ABSTUDY, Austudy and more.

In short, Tony Abbott’s Australia is a mean place where there’s no help for those who need it most, and government is run for the benefit of big business instead of ordinary people.
There are a lot of us who don’t want to live in Tony Abbott’s Australia, and this is our moment to act. I know we can win this, but we can’t win without your support.