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Why Albanese’s HECS gift is a reverse-Robin Hood

9 29
04.11.2024

Governments are the Robin Hoods of the modern world, taking money from the better off so as to hand it to those who need it. But the Merry Men would have been left scratching their heads when Anthony Albanese announced his first big pre-election pitch at the weekend.

That’s because, although plenty of dollars were thrown around, they’re for a reverse-Robin Hood. Albanese announced a big tax cut for higher income earners … but only for those higher earners who went to university or TAFE. Yep, the prime minister’s big reveal was that less well-off Australians will be tapped to pay for a bigger........

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