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What is the new ‘Middle Class’?

The post-budget articles in the newspapers are making me sick. Making out families on $150,000 a year as though they’re on struggle street is pretty dirty, when folk in that situation are better off than most of us. Matt Cowgill has written an excellent piece trying to find out what the middle class (middle meaning

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Working Families?

With a state election in NSW in the next few weeks and a federal election one by-election away we’re again being bombarded with political commercials. Here’s a few for sampling: NSW Labor’s “Fairness for Families”     NSW Liberal’s spoof of the above (which gets points for comedy) And (because it features Zombies) my favourite

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