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Originally Posted by zipping
In response to the recession in the early 1990s, the Keating government further increased the generosity of family payments, and expanded access to families in the middle class.
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child endowment has been around for ever, all people who had kids were entitled to it - nothing new here, other than a new name
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Question for you Trev, when Whitlan introduced free university for all was that middle class welfare?
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obviously no, because it allowed ALL classes access - typical old school Labor thinking
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Medicare for all and free schooling accessed by the middle class is a form of middle class welfare programs well before Howard.
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no, because ALL Australians had access to Medicare - do you really understand this argument, because it looks to me like you don't. I was at voting age when Whitlam was PM
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it was stupid, but the Abbott Government did the same thing, but was called something different