Voters spoilt for choice: Peter Albanese or Anthony Dutton

These Treasury talking points are how current Treasurer "communicates" with Australians. How's his MYEFO helping them? With subsidiary talking points.

Easing cost-of-living pressures (why make it so hard to start with). Future Made in Australia (see above). Strengthening the "care" economy (care is not the economy). Broadening opportunity and equality (in reverse) while safeguarding people and environment (until the next fire/flood/pandemic).

"Australians are struggling to get into the housing market" though over "a million jobs have been created".

Why struggling? Bipartisan tax-incentives for housing speculation – augmented by Labor's million-plus migrants to date. Who got those (largely government-related) "million" jobs? A million migrants, mainly.

NSW Liberals dissed MYEFO. If their party wins federally, it's still Treasury Rules.

As to who really chooses our policy directions, you can have unelected "stakeholders" or unelected international agencies (UN/OECD/IMF troika). Rarely voters.

Then Treasurer issued Australia's fifth Population Statement, a Scott Morrison lurk. Media "stakeholders" (ABC, SMH, Financial Review) copied out the Treasury points.

Bizarrely, the 2022 Statement said our population was trending "smaller and older". Edition 2024, however, has population still "growing in 2100":

Not even United Nations would say that. Our central government has lost its environmental mind. Does no one care?

Despite population growth (> 2%) doubling economic growth (< 1%), there's no concession that hyper migration hurts voters. We'll all "benefit", smirks Treasury, as the population zooms past 30 million then 40.

Treasury has demolished the Australian Dream with world-level population-replacement plus world-level housing-unaffordability. Yet they fantasise 2030s women (even Canberra women) re-embracing fertility via:

"Policies that encourage a more equal division of household labour, alleviate the financial cost of having children, and promote housing security."