Jacqui Lambie says major parties ‘killing’ Australia and blasts Labor over stage three tax cuts
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Jacqui Lambie has called for an end to Australia's major political parties while launching a scathing critique of Labor's unwillingness to dump the controversial stage three tax cuts.
The independent senator for Tasmania told an audience at the Festival of Dangerous Ideas in Sydney on Saturday the federal government's failure to increase jobseeker payments above the poverty line while waving through the tax cuts was emblematic of the broken" political system.
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