Archive for May 7th, 2015
The forthcoming Budget: a wounded government is a dangerous government
Posted by John, May 7th, 2015 - under Solidarity magazine.
Tags: Abbott government, Austerity, Budget, Budget cuts
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In framing its 12 May Budget the Abbott government is torn between its desire to slash and burn and the realisation, in light of the massive backlash against its 2014 austerity Budget, that to do so would guarantee its political death. What it will do among other things is cloak some of its cuts in the rhetoric of fairness or look for back door ways to introduce their cuts. A wounded government is a dangerous government.