ALBO'S A. L. P. ANXIETY: Australia's Leftbehind People

One in three Australian households visited a doctor for anxiety in the last year but the real story here is the difference between Albo's PLBs and Chalmer's CPBs ( People Left Behind and Canberra Public Bureaucrats).

Treasury is the voice of employers and the economy. The ACTU is the voice for employees?and workers in the gig economy. ACOSS speaks for the welfare community and government beneficiaries and the ABC provides a platform for " The others" who are increasingly visiting clinics for the treatment of anxiety.

Albanese wants to put people before the economy but Chalmers' Treasury has once again won - a Triple A rating and inflation busting comes ahead of the needs of the three million households that have been left below the poverty line by Treasury with three-quarters of a million kids (according to Cassandra Goldie of the Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS).

Treasury's CPBs and Employers worked on average 32 hours a week in the last year, compared with 18 hours a week for the PLBs. Two per cent of CPBs earned less than $15,000 last year compared with 5% of employers, 10% of employees and 24% of PLBs. Eight per cent of employers will miss out on a $9000 a year tax cut from Stage Three deductions, 3% of CPBs and employees and less than 1% of PLBs.

28% of CPBs and employers went to the doctor for anxiety between 2021 and 2022 (according to Morgan Research n=65,321 Australia-wide survey) compared with 36% of employees, 37% of parents with kids under 18 years, 48% of people looking for work and 56% of Albo's PLBs.

Keeping promises to the affluent takes precedence over making sure no children live in poverty ( Hawke's promise) and Albanese's nobody left behind commitments or reducing the costs of preventable chronic diseases and mental health crises. For the Canberra Bubble, the budget is a great success as it delivers promises to voters with higher incomes, jobs, homes and health in an economy bringing in 190,000 migrants and backpackers to fill the workforce of employers and the public service rather than open pathways to employment for the million PLBs.

For the "Others" their offer is increasing unemployment, real wage reversal, increasing mortgage failures and increasing levels of preventable chronic disease including infections, diabetes, kidney diseases and obesity. These costs are Mark Butler and Amanda Rishworth's concerns, not Jim Chalmers or Brendan O'Connors. The poor and their kids are not their concern as they are not in their workforce, ( ie working for at least one hour per week and paying taxes.

The Winners in Chalmers' first of many budgets are:

* People looking to buy an affordable house

* Builders and property developers

* Families and would-be families

* Expensive electric vehicle buyers

* TAFE and students

* Aged and Childcare

The Losers are:

* Households with large energy bills

* Small Business owners

* Consulting firms

* Cybercriminals

The Neglected are:

* Newstart and Youth Allowance recipients

* Regional and remote communities

* Everyone facing up to 50% rise in energy prices.

* Low skilled workers displaced by skilled migrants

CPBs admit that they know almost nothing about the life situation of the PLBs who have no place in the algorithms and automated mindset of their databases and studiously look after the interests of employers, employees and pensioners ( ie their constituents) over their needs. The million people left behind, three million below the poverty line, the jobseekers living below $48 a day, and the youngsters on $38 a day are not the responsible budget criterion for well-paid members of the Canberra bubble.