The concept of making a product unaffordable for addicts is a ridiculous premise in and of itself.

Successive governments with the twice yearly increase in tabacco excise which is now around 75% of the product sale cost have created the space in which illegal tabacco sales exist.

I thought we were already living in the dark...

In Australia being a whistleblower or even just reporting "bad things" has become a very dangerous move.

The only reason to attend your job agency appointments is to keep yourself out of trouble. It seems they have an obligation to lay eyes on you once a month. They don't perform any useful and/or helpful function.

But they are raking it in......and the government can say "well we are doing something"

I want to thank you for doing this, this is what the world needs, people helping people.

Labor is selling our soul to the US

We recently had neo-Nazis rampaging through our city streets, attacking Aboriginal people.

Neither SuSSan Ley, Albanese or the Antisemitism Envoy were willing to condemn that outrage.

Yet Ley will condemn a Joy Division band T-shirt, because Sky News After Dark told her to.

be careful deleting your account may not stop you subscription payment. and you will need your account to exist in order to cancel the payment.

As a kid we would visit my grandmother on sunday, lots of people there, aunt this and uncle that, was in my twenties when I found out most were not actually relatives. Was fun though, big extended family.