Good health and good hygiene are two sides of the same coin. one can't have one without the other! Be it indigenous eyesight or our sexual health, i.e., STD's.

Therefore all hygiene products, including sneeze retaining, nose covering, surgical masks, ought to be tax-free to ensure that passed on tax cascading upwards from manufacturer to the user/client/customer, doesn't result in unnecessary, inadequate hygiene, be it at home, in shared hospital wards or overdriven, overloaded, overcrowded public transport.

The savings to our finite health budget sure to offset any foregone GST!
What's good for the goosey goosey goose is good for the goosey goosey gander!
Alan B.

//Finally, I ask the question, if men instead of women had periods and used tampons, would there have been all this political fuss, particularly from Labor and the Greens. My guess is "no".//

Indeed... if men had periods, they wouldn't have been taxed in the first place.

Good health and good hygiene
Alan B,
Any evidence on how the gay community manage the latter ?

'Indeed... if men had periods, they wouldn't have been taxed in the first place.'

Yeah Yeah Toni seen the amount of money spent on breast cancer compared to prostate cancer. Yep I am to lazy to look it up but am sure the ratio is massive in favour of the female. So good to pick something to have a tantrum about.

Runner,

Do you mean the per capita amount spent on breast and prostrate cancer sufferers ? Perhaps it also depends on how expensive different treatments might be, and how long recovery might take ?

But don't let evidence get in the way of a satisfying prejudice :)

As for toilet paper, I'm surprised that nobody in your camp has demanded that men should have to pay less than women, since men have (and many are) bigger arseholes.

Joe

Individual: No idea, but they should always practise safe sex and be extra scrupulous with personal hygiene. As should heterosexual couples who participate in either oral or annul or normal heterosexual sex!

Syphilis is spread almost exclusively by folk who routinely practice unsafe unprotected annul sex. Be they gay or straight, men or women. Simple rule. If it's not on? It's not on! I don't know about you but speaking personally, annul sex turns me right off, even with the world's most gorgeous women.

Whereas oral sex with the same does exactly the opposite. Knew some ladies in south-east Asia long-long ago, who could suck golf balls through a garden hose. Mind-blowing! And well worth the ten bucks a night for multiple episodes.

That said, it's none of my business or yours what adult consenting couples, do in the privacy of their own homes, to or for each other.

You should take care how you phrase your leading questions, lest we start to see you as just another gay basher on some sort of homophobic campaign/crusade.

You'll have a nice day now, y'hear.
Alan B.

Alan B struggling to legitimise his sexuality in view of the evidence to the contrary.
I think the subject is "tax on a vampires tea-bag" young Al!

Yes, Diver and why don't you remember that instead of as usual getting very personal, going the verbal, getting in with the cheap shots and straight out quite blatant homophobia!

I was on topic until one of your homophobic mates asked a question pertaining to hygiene regarding gays. And gave a reasonable considered response and still on topic. Which to quote you, was never ever about vampires tea bags.

Better the world suspects you are a complete fool than open your mouth to remove all doubt.
Alan B.

Thanks for that Al,

One thing before you go though Al, would you bend down and pick up the soap before you step out of the shower? Make sure your friends ain't watch'n aye!

More to the subject, I couldn't imagine removing a tampon tax, (didn't know there was a tax on tampons), would create a rush to buy 10% cheaper tampons.
Unless of course the cynical notion behind the idea is a ploy to help the Chinese who plunder our baby formula before our girls can get it, with a bonus gift of tampons with the formula to help their sales back home!

Nothing surprises me anymore, since gay marriage.

It's not just the tampon tax that should be abolished, it's the GST on everything which was adopted when the Australian Democrat pollies sold out their own party by passing it in the Senate.