This isn’t 20 bucks in a jar to put towards a bit of home maintenance; this is $12.7 billion that our nation can ill afford.
This money is to fund the Albanese Labor government’s last budget—a budget Australians rely on to be fiscally responsible, a budget Australians rely on to be carefully crafted to make the most of their hard-earned dollars and a budget that must take every cent into account.
This is not a matter of objecting to the specific policies and programs that will be funded under this extra money; this is an objection to the carefree, last-minute, devil-may-care attitude to spending Australians’ money.