Australians are being squeezed from every side, and the pressure is only growing heavier.

Taxes take more of a worker’s pay than in decades, with bracket creep punishing families who barely keep ahead of inflation.

The harder you work, the more the government takes

The reward for diligence is not dignity but depletion.

At the same time, a record wave of migration - nearly half a million new arrivals a year on average between 2022 and 2024 - floods into the country.

That figure is unprecedented.

It sends rents and house prices to heights unseen, forcing young families to surrender hope of ever owning a home.

Services groan under the weight.

Hospitals are crowded, schools are stretched, and infrastructure buckles under strain.

When a “solution” is finally offered, it borders on paro

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