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Episode: The middle class vs. the poor: Why the Coalition wants them to fight
Description: Since the budget dropped on Tuesday night, the Coalition and some parts of the media have begun to pick a very strange fight.It’s over whether some of the most vulnerable in the community should really get more help than middle-class Australian households with two incomes.It pits the two against each other and ignores a much bigger cost coming down the pipeline: tax cuts that will benefit the wealthiest Australians the most.Today, columnist for The Saturday Paper, Paul Bongiorno on the strange politics at play and why there are bigger qu...