Stage 3 Tax Cuts To Fail Rural and Regional Australia, Only Benefit East Coast Inner City Residents: Greens Senator

Stage 3 Tax Cuts To Fail Rural and Regional Australia, Only Benefit East Coast Inner City Residents: Greens Senator
Australian banknotes in Melbourne, on Nov. 7, 2017. Paul Crocker/AFP via Getty Images
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The Greens are again pressuring the federal government over the stage three tax cuts, with South Australian (SA) Greens Senator Barbara Pocock arguing it will only benefit the rich inner city areas and leave behind rural and regional Australians.

This comes as The Australia Institute’s report ‘Divided Nation’ (pdf) found that the tax cuts would primarily benefit wealthy residents of the inner-city eastern states electorates.
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