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http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/05/17/budg-m17.html
Australia is to become the first country in the world with a retirement age of 70. The ability to see a doctor without an up-front payment will be ended. Unemployed people under 30 years of age will be left destitute, without income for six months, and then forced into work-for-the-dole schemes. The incomes of millions of working-class families will be slashed by over 10 percent as increased taxes and cuts to welfare benefits take effect. From 2016, students will be charged tens of thousands of dollars in annual fees as the university system is fully deregulated.
How are workers and youth to fight this onslaught on living standards?
Australia is to become the first country in the world with a retirement age of 70. The ability to see a doctor without an up-front payment will be ended. Unemployed people under 30 years of age will be left destitute, without income for six months, and then forced into work-for-the-dole schemes. The incomes of millions of working-class families will be slashed by over 10 percent as increased taxes and cuts to welfare benefits take effect. From 2016, students will be charged tens of thousands of dollars in annual fees as the university system is fully deregulated.
How are workers and youth to fight this onslaught on living standards?
