Budget cuts disproportionately affect Australians with disabilities while wealthy receive media sympathy
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Greg Jericho
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Summary
The article criticizes Australia's budget priorities, highlighting how people with disabilities faced the largest cuts while conservative media focuses on sympathy for the wealthy. It uses the author's personal experience with dental care to illustrate broader inequality in healthcare access, noting that a quarter of Australians put off seeing a dentist due to cost. The piece argues that the budget reveals warped national priorities and systemic neglect of vulnerable populations.
Key quotes
· 3 pulledThis alone sets me apart from many Australians.
a quarter of people said they put off seeing a dentist even when they needed to
The reaction to the budget has revealed Australia's warped priorities, with the appalling inequality in dental care among the issues actively ignored
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