Governments, unis and police shouldn’t be cracking down on peaceful protestors.

They should listen to their demands.

Students are calling for peace and an end to arming a military force that is subject to orders to stop genocide.

That’s something everyone should support.

Across the country, people are disappointed with Labor and this band-aid budget shows why.

Labor offers band-aid solutions that leave millions struggling, while corporations get big handouts and their profits soar.

In the worst housing and rental crisis in generations, there’s no funding for a rent freeze and no big public housing build, but there’s $174.5b in tax handouts for the wealthy and property investors.

That is $1290 every second.

While people are marching for peace, Labor’s defence spending is approaching a trillion dollars across the next decade.

Meanwhile, they couldn’t find a cent to raise the rate of JobSeeker or Youth Allowance.

An extra $1.30 a day for a quarter of renters will do *nothing* when average rents are set to go up by $46 a week.

Labor’s budget allows unlimited rent rises and refuses to put in place a rent freeze.

The government’s $9.3 billion surplus could fund a rent freeze, put mental health into Medicare or give everyone in poverty over $3000 in cost-of-living support – instead, a surplus is just a political talking point for Labor’s re-election campaign.

The budget offers a future for coal and gas beyond 2050 that will wreck the climate, unleash corporate greed, and throw ordinary people to the wolves.

We’re in a cost of living crisis – but Labor has chosen a surplus over helping people.

This band-aid budget betrays renters, women, students, and anyone struggling.

Labor’s budget surplus is your cost of living pain, your gap fee at the doctor, and your ten year wait for a public home.

Where are those Labor MPs who cried foul about Labor's coal & gas expansion plans?

Despite the crocodile tears, the MPs for Macnamara, Wills, Cooper, Richmond & Moreton all just backed new coal and gas and failed to vote against Labor's Future Gas Strategy.

It's grandstanding.

Hey Macnamara residents,

Next election you can choose an MP who says their party’s position is crap but votes for it anyway.

Or one who believes in what their party is doing & votes for it in Canberra.

Vote for no more coal & gas.

Vote for peace.

Vote Greens Sonya Semmens.

The UNGA took a positive step overnight towards Palestinian self determination.

But this vote alone won’t be enough to stop Netanyahu’s catastrophic invasion of Rafah.

Labor needs to back a permanent ceasefire, end the two-way arms trade with Israel & expel the Ambassador.