Don't worry Divorce Dr,drugs on the PBS will continue to flow.This was the latest excuse for the need to rise interest rates.We also have the highest food inflation in the Western World primarily because we don't have sufficient legislation to stop the anti -competitive practices of West Farmers and Wollies.Currently they control over 80% of the food and household products we buy.We are seeing food prices climb for two reasons,a shortage of world production and the lack of competition in our own market.

Kevin just wants to invite more competition from OS but he will bite the bullet and bring in legislation to stop these anti competitive practises,neither did John Howard.The Corporates have too much power and we are now the serfs.In Canada for example you cannot use a preditory price technique to eliminate small competitors from the market.Now on numerous occasions the RBA has moved rates up because of primarily price inflation and not wages inflation.

John Howard tried to reduce living standards through work choices.Initially the work place agreements gave most of the power to the employer,this is why he lost the election.No one has made the connection between lowering of tarrifs and the need to lower wages.Fisher and Paykel have closed down and Mitsubishi look like following.Unlike Canada we don't have a large country like the US at our doorstep as a market for our goods.The rain has kicked in and with food prices on the rise our farmers will improve our exports,but will ordinary Aussies benefit?We have large Corporates exploiting our energy and resources,but you don't benefit unless you have enough money to buy shares and the taxes taken from these Corp have been put in a pollies future fund rather than being spent on infrastructure.We are not well managed at both a Federal particularly at a State level.

Those on the board of the RBA are primarily ex CEOs or directors of large corporates.What empathy would they with the plight of ordinary Australians?I think it is about time we stopped large donations by the Corporates to any party,since the individual is being screwed.

Arjay.
The present banking systems are part of a new world order as yet... not appeared.
You can find the story of this new world order in books like "None Dare Call It Conpiracy" by Garry Allen, "The Cosmic Conspiracy" by Stan Deyo; "Warning", "Second Warning" and "Final Notice" by (pastor) Barry Smith (NZ) and through many other books at christian bookshops.
And of course in Revelation 13:16-18 and 14:9-11.
Its going to be "1984" for a season as a charismatic and quite mad global dictator steps up on to the stage.
Its all in the Bible...and its going to happen.
With the microchip on either the right hand or forehead (13:16-18) they can watch our daily movements whenever they want.
We just got to make sure we dont take that chip (14:9-11).

For goodness sake don't be infantile. The federal government's planned $31 billion tax cuts will be their last they would be the government's last cuts. Labor is committed to delivering tax cuts in this budget, they had to, they were cornered into it during the election campaign,But they have also said this is the last time you will see tax cuts under a Labor government, and I think that will be a very retrograde step.when the coalition was in power it consistently delivered, year after year, tax cuts so that people had money in their pocket it be interesting to see how many, if any, of the ideas from 2020 summit turn up in the federal budget or become Labor policy.We have seen a lot of spin and but we have very little substance,let's see how many of the ideas that actually come up that people have put forward in a genuine and well meaning way, let's see how many of these ideas actually end up in the budget or in Labor's policy platform. we should continue to review Australia's taxation system to ensure we are internationally competitive and people don't pay any more tax than they have to, a review of taxation is something that should be ongoing. Mark my words this will be the last tax cuts that Labor will ever deliver. They have scrapped Australian Workplace Agreements whch in time will prove that to scrap them will be a disaster just watch Inflation and Interest Rates climb to 17% and unemploymetn rise to 8% time will tell to prove that little Johnny Howard was right.

40 years ago I was harassed by homosexuals who were so disturbed that I feared they would burst blood vessels and they were molesting other students. When I tried to get help for them and protect other students, I was without my saying anything diagnosed mentally ill.

I have been unemployable since 1982 and tormented and disabled by psychiatric treatment since 1969 and am now on a DSP.

Dr I D Clark
BSc(Hons Melb 1968 Maths Stats) MSc PhD(Monash 1969 1973 Symbolic Logic)
Member of Statistical Society of Australia, Econometric Society and Royal Economic Society. Eldest child of Douglas Hall Clark OBE JP Esq

Dr Clark,

Welcome to the Forum.

I'm intrigued. You presumably see some connection or relevance of your own career experience with the subject of this thread, the driving down of living standards in Australia by stealth.

I accept at face value the outline you have given as to the qualifications you claim to hold, and what happened to you as a consequence of diagnosis. Had you been, prior to graduation in 1968, in receipt of any scholarship, or studying under the terms of any cadetship or other sponsorship with respect to your then future career? I ask this because I imagine career opportunities in your area of expertise to be relatively narrow and/or limited. Did you anticipate, in 1968, a career in what was then the Commonwealth Statistician's Office, now the Australian Bureau of Statistics? Or were you looking toward an academic career?

What had been your father's position/profession over the years leading up to your graduation? Was his experience, guidance, or influence likely to be seen by others as being of help to you in setting you upon a career path? I note your father's OBE mentioned in your post. In what connection was it awarded? Were the 'sins' of the father being visited upon the son?

I note that you were apparently able to pursue post-graduate academic qualifications with success between 1969 and 1973. Were you regarded as having either 'unconventional views' or being relatively gifted, by the academic establishment (or any part thereof) during your undergaduate and/or post-graduate years?

You also mention that you became unemployable in 1982. Had you been able to secure employment within the area of your professional expertise between 1973 and 1982? If so, where were you so employed?

I am not trying to be intrusive in posing these questions. You, after all, have seen fit, and had the courage, to reveal what you have about yourself in the first case. I sense a story that may be very much in Australia's interest to be told.

There's lies, damn lies, and STATISTICS!

Dear Dr Clark,

1. If this happned at school and you have witnesses be aware that in NSW, at least,schools are not protected by statute of limitations regarding their duty of care.

2. You might find employment offshore, HK, Singapore, Shanghai or the Emirates. If lack of publications is a problem since you left Academe you might try for a major, well resorced Asian polytechnic, like Ngee Ann.

Cheers.

O.