Jellyback Hanson delivers Coalition fiscal vandalism

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Jellyback Hanson is at it again, via The Australian:

Pauline Hanson will hand Malcolm Turnbull his most significant political victory — the passage of the government’s $144 billion ­income tax cuts — ­despite a last-ditch push by Bill Shorten to sink the plan.

Ahead of a final Senate vote today, Labor ramped up attacks on Senator Hanson, accusing her of abandoning Queensland ­“battlers”, including those in the marginal seat of Longman who will go to the polls in one of five by-elections on July 28.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.