I just can’t, Jim. I can’t with your surplus.

You’re repeating yourself, grinning over the same shit, so I’m going to repeat myself. I hate the surplus. I hate it when it’s 9 billion or nineteen. I hate it because it leaves my friends suffering with welfare payments below the poverty line. It leaves public school massively underfunded. It leaves public housing being sold off rather than being bought or built. It leaves you and your colleagues grinning at foodbanks, grinning because you’ve funded more charity, grinning while dental isn’t funded for adults. You’re grinning while women are rejected for domestic violence payments, when you could raise welfare above the poverty line and remove partner income tests. You’re grinning a year after the Disability Royal Commission handed down it’s findings while you’re holding your cards close to the chest on what will be allowed in NDIS packages after Wednesday. Grinning about Urgent Care Clinics while GP’s continue to walk away from bulk billing.

Just 76 hrs until #NDIS 2.0 is in force & the rule defining support (therefore, our daily lives) still hasn't been published.

The 14 billion-dollar question: Will @billshortenmp listen to warnings in submissions & consultations about the lists?#Auspolhttps://t.co/EBxEMUIPig

— Cat Walker (@KelpieUnicorns) September 29, 2024

Grinning. Grinning. Grinning.