“In Australian politics conversations about the cost of living are framed almost entirely around the middle-class.”
The 2024 Federal Budget budget doesn’t change anything about how the Australian economy works – and it was never trying to.
While we all know what the truth of the financial climate feels like, it can be very difficult to understand why it’s happening.
“White, thin and able-bodied people aren’t going to work thinking about the politics of their job.”
“It’s incredibly damaging for young Australians to internalize a system designed to fail them, as their own individual failures.”
It’s ambitious & meaty as hell.
If one more ‘expert’ tells me to cancel Netflix I’ll scream.
Making some predictions, because why not?