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30m is nothing in government budget. It's so funny how they always mention the cost cause they know how tight we all are with money.
It would pay for quite a few teachers or nurses.
And it's never just the sticker price when the polits burble this kind of nonsense in the media.
Based on a quick search of treasury's budget publications I'll assume 2022's total government revenue to be 150b. 30m is 0.2% of that.
Holy shit! They're prepared to dump 0.2% of the whole budget on a political football.
As much political football as when it was implemented.
There's always going to be things that other parties remove and I think 30m is not an amount we should be freaking out over.
I'd rather they didn't do it but it doesn't worry me if they do.