Budget stripped more than $15b from families, low-income people: ACOSS analysis

By Nassim Khadem
Updated May 24 2015 - 4:13pm, first published May 23 2015 - 12:01am
ACOSS chief executive Cassandra Goldie says the last two budgets' impact on low and middle-income people is devastating. Photo: Tomasz Machnik
ACOSS chief executive Cassandra Goldie says the last two budgets' impact on low and middle-income people is devastating. Photo: Tomasz Machnik

By keeping most of the last year's budget cuts, and introducing new ones in the May budget, the Abbott government is stripping more than $15 billion over four years from families and lower-income Australians, new analysis by the Australian Council of Social Service shows.

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