Socialist Alliance: Labor must be forced to back down from NDIS cuts |
The Anthony Albanese government’s decision to savage the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) ranks high in the scale of betrayals by neoliberal Labor governments.
Each one has torn down the reforms made by the previous Labor government in an attempt to curry favour and satisfy the insatiable greed of the billionaire class.
Just as the Bob Hawke government introduced tertiary fees in 1986 after the Gough Whitlam government abolished them in 1974, so the Julia Gillard government savaged the single parent pension in 2013.
As hard as the Coalition cuts back spending when it is in office, Labor, since 1983, has been consistently cutting social spending.
Now it’s the........