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a life on credit...The income tests for Family Tax Benefits A and B, which cost $20 billion a year according to the budget papers, are far too high, which also results in the Schoolkids Bonus and the Baby Bonus also being poorly targeted as safety net measures.
in memory of rottnest lodge ....
the american way ....
hey, wayne .....The Illuminati were amateurs. The second huge financial scandal of the year reveals the real international conspiracy: there's no price the big banks can't fix.
spending spree on killing...The United States' military expenditures today account for about 40 percent of the world total. In 2012, the US spent some $682bn on its military - an amount more than what was spent by the next 13 countries combined.
clueless conservatives (liberals)...We all can have a different view about Anzac day, including this date taking too much importance in the Australian psyche... but there are points at which trespass is unwelcome...
alarum, alarum ....From the Sydney Gazette, Saturday April 27, 1850.
battered savs ....Late last month, a woman stood alone on the forecourt of Canberra's Parliament House, inhaling gulps of cigarette smoke. ''All very nice,'' she said. ''Too late. Tomorrow it'll be wrapping chips.'' She was, in her knowing bitterness, more prescient than she could have guessed.
some fathers do have 'em...So far, Bush has been pursuing the brilliant PR strategy of saying absolutely nothing and never appearing in Major National News. It’s worked remarkably well. It’s the only surefire way to avoid gaffes.
how depressing...
the co$t of $ydney Life...Po$tcard by Gu$
an interview with zero credibility...
bias at the ABC...Every time Alan Kohler opens his trap at the ABC "finance report" it's to bash Labor's economic credentials... I may be wrong here, but that's the impression he gives... In the process he promotes the loopy lying clowns on the other side of politics... Let me say this here again: capitalism in the hands of conservatives is dangerous.
he used to throw his weight around in the LNP...A FLEDGLING political party may have scuttled the hopes of Queensland's richest man Clive Palmer of creating an alternative political outfit under the name "United Australia Party".
believers attack an atheist...
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