Hardworking Aussie’s rant reveals the real victims of the Stage Three cuts overhaul – as Anthony Albanese insists he is ‘honest’ despite breaking election promise

An Australian miner has lashed out at the Albanian government over changes to phase three tax cuts that will leave him worse off.

Mark expressed his frustration in an open letter to Barefoot Investor Scott Pape, arguing that the changes were unfair to Aussies who worked hard for their money.

“Many people who earn a lot are miners,” he wrote.

“We sacrifice our lives without family and friends to earn higher wages, while giving tax cuts to people who choose to earn less but don’t want to make the sacrifice to earn more.”

Mark expressed his frustration when Prime Minister Anthony Albanese insisted he was an ‘honest man’ as he defended the changes to the stage three tax cuts on Sunday.

The average mining salary is $120,000, but several fly-in-fly-out workers claim they can earn much more, with one saying they can earn as much as $200,000.

The eye-watering salary means some miners earn high incomes and fall into the highest tax category.

Mr Albanese reworked the stage three tax cuts, halving the benefit for Australians earning more than $180,000 in favor of a boost for lower earners.

Mark pointed out that although a miner’s salary can be very high, it comes with great sacrifices.

“I’ve never gotten a dollar from all the handouts and I’m over it. Australia is a joke,” he wrote.

“Do you think we like getting up at 4am and not being back in our room until 7pm?”

Cal McIlwaine, an Irishman on a working holiday visa, previously revealed how FIFO workers are having to cope with isolation and more than double the average working hours in a week.

The big winners under Labor’s withdrawal include those earning less than $45,000 a year, who will now get up to $805 off their tax bill instead of nothing, which they would have received under the Coalition legislation.

And the 85 percent of taxpayers making between $50,000 and $130,000 will get $804 more than what was previously promised.

Those who have the most to lose if Labour’s changes pass the Senate with cross-bench support are those earning more than $190,000, who will see their tax savings halved from $9,075 to $4,529.

The miner said that despite sacrificing much of his life as a FIFO worker, his tax returns will instead be given to those who ‘choose’ to earn less and not make the same sacrifice (shares).

Albanese had promised earlier during the election campaign that he would not rework the tax cuts.

In a speech on Sunday, the Prime Minister defended Labour’s changes to tax cuts, which have drawn intense criticism from the Coalition, which has branded the move a “broken promise”.

‘I am an honest person. I am honest,” Mr Albanese told the ABCs Insiders program.

“What I’ve done here is be very, very clear. And I’ve listened to people all say to me, ‘Well, what do you do about living expenses? What measures can you take?

On the eve of Australia Day, the government abandoned its promise to support the tax cuts already passed. She overhauled the tax package by reducing the amount high earners received while strengthening support for low and middle income earners.

The changes, which undo the original tax package put in place by the Morrison government, will still mean all workers will pay less income tax from July 1.

Mr Albanese confirmed that the amended legislation would be released later on Sunday and presented to Parliament on Tuesday, before adding that he wanted the changes to be passed before Easter.

“Certainly, it should be passed during this existing session, to allow for an easy transition for employers, the tax authorities and also for others,” Mr Albanese said.

Pressed on why the government had not adopted the amendments to the 2022 federal election, the Prime Minister said economic conditions required changes to the phase three tax package.

“We’ve listened to people and low- and middle-income Australians in particular are under financial pressure,” Albanese said.

“What we had to do was look at what is the best way to take pressure off the cost of living without putting pressure on inflation.”