On 1 April 1946 Walter Nash introduced a universal family benefit of 10 shillings (equivalent to $44 in 2021) per child per week. Cartoonist Gordon Minhinnick saw this as a bribe and labelled the bait ‘over ripe tax concessions’.
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Cartoon by Gordon Edward George Minhinnick
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