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Retired in Australia- my beautiful wife and I have lived, travelling Australia for past 12 months in caravan with our dog ! I hold the record for number of hip replacements-4!!- but trying to get fit again to surf in Mentawais- follow history, politics!
I had free uni because of Gough- Fraser surprisingly had kept it going when I started in 1977- then Hawke introduced HECS in 1989 !! Go figure!
November 11, 2025 at 11:58 AM
I had free uni because of Gough- Fraser surprisingly had kept it going when I started in 1977- then Hawke introduced HECS in 1989 !! Go figure!
I have become interested in this topic after I heard Journalist Paul Kelly speaking on the ABC today - your view, which I just read wholeheartedly support, seems quite different to his.
November 11, 2025 at 11:48 AM
I have become interested in this topic after I heard Journalist Paul Kelly speaking on the ABC today - your view, which I just read wholeheartedly support, seems quite different to his.
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Along with bludger and burden rhetoric that has become a common way of thinking now.
November 11, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Along with bludger and burden rhetoric that has become a common way of thinking now.
And hawk introduced HECs
November 11, 2025 at 9:11 AM
And hawk introduced HECs
We pause for silence and wreaths, while the very thing we’re “remembering so it never happens again” keeps happening — often with our own nations’ involvement.
November 10, 2025 at 11:11 PM
We pause for silence and wreaths, while the very thing we’re “remembering so it never happens again” keeps happening — often with our own nations’ involvement.
And the anti semitism envoy!! That was the last straw especially after his advocacy for Palestine back in the day!!
November 10, 2025 at 10:55 PM
And the anti semitism envoy!! That was the last straw especially after his advocacy for Palestine back in the day!!
What a gormless character !!
November 10, 2025 at 11:59 AM
What a gormless character !!
Is newsome taking AIPAC money?
November 10, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Is newsome taking AIPAC money?
Who are their donors?
November 10, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Who are their donors?
Or Alan Jones?
November 10, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Or Alan Jones?
Alan jones will be next - be interesting to see if he gets the same adoration?
November 10, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Alan jones will be next - be interesting to see if he gets the same adoration?
He has been evasive when asked !
November 9, 2025 at 2:00 PM
He has been evasive when asked !
From the Monash “Transforming Australia” report, summarised in the Guardian:
• Bottom 40% of Australians own only 5.5% of the country’s wealth.
• Top 10% own 57% of all wealth.
• Inside that, the top 1% alone own almost 24%.
Investors are already in the top ten! Stop the handouts to them!!
• Bottom 40% of Australians own only 5.5% of the country’s wealth.
• Top 10% own 57% of all wealth.
• Inside that, the top 1% alone own almost 24%.
Investors are already in the top ten! Stop the handouts to them!!
November 9, 2025 at 8:35 AM
From the Monash “Transforming Australia” report, summarised in the Guardian:
• Bottom 40% of Australians own only 5.5% of the country’s wealth.
• Top 10% own 57% of all wealth.
• Inside that, the top 1% alone own almost 24%.
Investors are already in the top ten! Stop the handouts to them!!
• Bottom 40% of Australians own only 5.5% of the country’s wealth.
• Top 10% own 57% of all wealth.
• Inside that, the top 1% alone own almost 24%.
Investors are already in the top ten! Stop the handouts to them!!
Mossad Minns !!
November 9, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Mossad Minns !!
Let’s stand up against AIPAC Gavin? Aren’t they bullies!! ?
November 9, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Let’s stand up against AIPAC Gavin? Aren’t they bullies!! ?