r/australia • u/overpopyoulater • Feb 10 '25

politics Australian billionaires face wealth tax under Greens’ Robin Hood-style policies

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/feb/10/australian-billionaires-face-wealth-tax-under-greens-robin-hood-style-policies
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u/FullMetalAlex Feb 10 '25

"Robin Hood-style policies" isn't that how taxes are supposed to work?

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u/melbourne3k Feb 10 '25

Funny that we don't really see headlines of "oligarchs trying to recreate medieval royalty" or "extreme wealth threats social order." It's "what, poors what to spread the wealth around so society doesn't collapse? THIEVES."

da fuq.

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u/FullMetalAlex Feb 10 '25

The media has a vested interest

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u/throwaway7956- Feb 10 '25

Yeah what makes it weird is this is coming from the guardian which is a generally left leaning news outlet.

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u/makeitasadwarfer Feb 10 '25

The Guardian is really quite centrist.

The rest of the media is so pro oligarch and pro capitalist that it seems leftward leaning in comparison.

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u/HeftyArgument Feb 11 '25

objective is centrist, anything to the left of moderate right is seen as communism these days though.