113 — Budget special

QLD and NSW are underwater, again. Knives are out for the prime minister. FU Pay is not good. The budget is discussed.

 

Floodcast (not that one)
At Melbourne’s Flower and Garden show, see “Coming soon”, a garden built around the theme of climate change.
The flooding in Queensland and NSW: It’s real bad.
Lismore’s flood warning system didn’t work, because it was still damaged from the flooding three weeks ago.
The NSW government has proposed cutting stamp duty for people leaving flood-effected areas.

Everybody hates Scott
Liberal senator Concetta Fierravanti-Wells used her retirement speech to attack Scott Morrison and is not fit to be Prime Minister.
In 2020 Fierravanti-Wells pushed conspiracy theories stating that the bushfires were created by eco-terrorist arsonists. Then voted against any kind of climate resilience measures.
In 2007 she attended a Croatian neo-nazi event.
And in 2014 asked Craig Kelly to attend that same event on her behalf.
Scott Morrison has denied that in 2007 he claimed his preselection opponent was a “moslem”.
Jim Malo: “being racist doesn’t preclude you from public life, in 2009 or now”.
Former Victorian Premier Jeff Kennett is proud of his golliwog collection.

FU PAY Me
Australia loves buy-now-pay-later services.
Australian Venue Co let you buy for a parma with four easy payments.
Payday loan lenders are also getting into the area.
New buy now pay later service FUPay is letting you buy milk, petrol and rent and pay it off later.
FUPay are also pitching themselves as a tool for employers to micromanage their employee’s money.
FUPay’s headquarters are in the same building as Indue, the company that manages cashless welfare cards. A real nexus of evil.

Budget spectacular
The government is giving $420 in additional tax offsets to lower income earners.
If you do a winners and losers breakdown, lol that’s fake.
The best form of welfare is a job, and the best type of rental support is buying a house.

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