{"id":5600,"date":"2019-08-13T03:19:34","date_gmt":"2019-08-12T17:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=5600"},"modified":"2019-08-13T19:07:52","modified_gmt":"2019-08-13T09:07:52","slug":"letter-to-the-editor-the-truth-about-the-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=5600","title":{"rendered":"LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: The truth about the budget"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>May 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After six years of Liberal cuts and chaos, and just six weeks before an\nelection, this Budget was Scott Morrison\u2019s last chance to reverse his cuts to\nthe services that everyday Australians rely on.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>But we now know that Scott Morrison has delivered an election con <\/strong>\u2501\n<strong>his budget is filled with the same Liberal cuts.\n<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Like every Liberal budget before it, this budget fails the fairness test. This budget<strong>:<\/strong><br>\u25cf Fails to reverse cuts to schools and hospitals; <br>\u25cf Fails to reverse cuts to TAFE and apprenticeships \u2501 in the past six years, the Liberals have cut $3 billion from TAFE and skills, and cut 150,000 apprenticeship places; <br>\u25cf Promises a surplus that is subsidized by short-changing people with disability through a massive underspend in the National Disability Insurance Scheme. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is no plan for wages, no plan to tackle power prices, no plan to address\nclimate change, and no plan for the future.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Liberals are presiding over an economy that doesn\u2019t work in the interests\nof everyday Australians. Scott Morrison is too out of touch to understand this.\nNow our Labor team are currently pouring over the detail and you\u2019ll be\nhearing more from us in the coming days.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2501 <strong>Chris Bowen, <\/strong><em>Shadow Treasurer, Labor Party\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 2019 After six years of Liberal cuts and chaos, and just six weeks before an election, this Budget was Scott Morrison\u2019s last chance to reverse his cuts to the services that everyday Australians rely on. But we now know that Scott Morrison has delivered an election con \u2501 his budget is filled with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5600"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/139"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5600"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5609,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5600\/revisions\/5609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}