A few short thoughts about the budget

It is entirely possible to have a flourishing economy and higher taxes, it is entirely possible to have a world that is not mesmerised, indeed paralysed, by neoliberal dogma

Thought one

Turns out Andrea Vance was understating it.

You're substantially and unfairly and unreasonably handicapping the pay equity process, everyone told Nicola Willis,

Wrong, she said.

This is likely to deprive women who do some of the hardest shittiest unappreciated work of decent pay, they told her.

Wrong, wrong wrong, she said.

You don't care; this is…