here a family pays no tax till $au20k, (debatable on how you interpret tax law) then we have brackets which sorta go working class- middle class - rich.
just as an aside-- the goverment lowered the rich rate, one year, then the middle class the next, then working/lower income class next, we have a four year election cycle. so in election year, it was pionted out everyone had recived help re- rising prices......... except retirees/pensioners who are living off their retirement capital/ recieve goverment pension and pay no tax........ being an election year they were given Cash by the govt. for the tax concessions every one else got, every body is happy govt. stays in power. Fast forward, I have have recived payments of $500, $1000, $1000,each year at christmas, SO has EVERYBODY

(tax payer/pensioner/welfare recipitant) in the COUNTRY. the last one was for the global finacial crissis, people are not spending, so
" here,s a thousand dollars go out and spend it, save our Country's ecconomy"
Sometimes politics gets really wierd
