While the Reserve Bank lowers the Official Cash Rate, it’s this Government’s policies driving poverty in our communities.

The Government’s bloody-minded commitment to delivering trickle-down tax cuts at all costs comes at the expense of investment in people and planet. 

This morning’s pre-Budget speech from the Minister of Finance offered no “meaningful” news on the Government’s trickle-down economics based plans.

Today’s Financial Stability Report has once again highlighted that poverty and deep inequality are political choices - and this Government is choosing to make them worse.

Once again, the National Party has shown a breathtaking willingness to say one thing during an election campaign and then do the exact opposite when in government.

The case for a wealth tax has never been stronger.

High-income property speculators will be the biggest winners from a National Party tax plan that will send house prices and rents through the roof, and turbo-charge inequality.

The announcement today that the Government has decided to cut funding to public services shows exactly why they need to tax wealth and big corporations.

While inflation is no longer increasing, the current rate will still bring little comfort to families struggling to make ends meet, says the Green Party.