Karen Middleton
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632 appearances
14 recordings
6 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 5d ago
Karen Middleton’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And I guess that's going to be pretty welcome to a lot of people for whom doing the tax is a huge headache.
If you want to claim more than $1,000, you are going to have to provide receipts.
But up to $1,000, you better claim that
instantly, it'll be a faster way to do your tax.
So that's going to appeal to a lot of people, I think.
Treasury's saying that something like 6 million people, working people, are going to benefit from that proposal that makes tax time a little bit easier.
And one of the key things the government is emphasising is that
all the money that it's saving from the tax measures that it's making is going towards funding other tax measures like the tax cuts that it announced a couple of years ago.
So it's talking about a broadly revenue-neutral budget and it's trumpeting the fact that it's re-employing that money to the benefit of the electorate.
Well, that's a very interesting question.
On face value, it looks to me like a political decision.
The government's setting the 2026-27 permanent migration program planning level at 185,000 places, and most of those, over 70%, are going to go to skilled migrants.
They're also going to prioritise applications from people who are already onshore, and those that are offered to offshore applicants...
They are going to be targeting high-skilled migrants with high levels of education.
But there is also an admission in the budget papers that the government's forecast net overseas migration levels have blown out.
So they had forecast in the mid-year budget update that the 2025-26 budget
level of net overseas migration would be 260,000.
In fact, they're now saying it's going to be 295,000.
So that's a blowout of 35,000.
They say that's because not as many people are leaving the country as there had been before.
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