I have raised 2 children with a husband, and one child on my own. You people need to stop generalising and labelling someone you don't know as having attitudes that come out of the 1950s. I am considered by many to be a very forward thinking person, which is why I am well aware of the dark place to which Green ideologies are taking us.

It's the ALP, not the DLP, that has decided to dump all of the sole parents on the dole. The DLP recognises the difficulties faced by people parenting alone, and is opposed to the recent decision.

At the same time as it are advocating a National Disability Insurance Scheme, Labor also continues to cut off disability pensioners. Maybe this is so they can make everyone pay through the taxation system, while giving nothing back.

I think some people are very rude and make disgusting comments which have no basis in fact.

I have read more than enough of Peter Singer's opinions to know he should get the Booby Prize for his unethical ravings.

Lorikeet,

When a party is not in power, it quite often speaks out about issues and opposes them wholeheartedly. When the Howard government first decided to tip sole parents onto the dole, the federal ALP protested loudly - now they have done an even more comprehensive job on sole parents. Same with asylum seekers arriving by boat - who would have thought the ALP would have touted something like the Malaysian Solution?.

The Malaysia Solution was just a red herring to fool all of the racists.

The first time the government decided to start kicking sole parents was around 1986 under Bob Hawke. He also did his level best to diminish the entitlements of our war veterans commencing in 1985.

Around that time, I worked in both the Departments of Social Security and Veterans' Affairs. I worked on a May Mini Budget Hotline during which numerous country women who were sole parents shed tears because they would have to move to the city to find work when their youngest child turned 16 (reduced from 18).

Lorikeet,

"I think some people are very rude and make disgusting comments which have no basis in fact."

You're fairly handy at dishing out bombastic assertions yourself, I've noticed.

If you come to the forum demonstrating an overbearing self-righteous demeanour, you should expect to be challenged. Most posters around here are reasonably intelligent and articulate.

Btw, I've never heard of a recognised genius (like Einstein, for instance) who felt the need to state, "I've got an IQ in the genius range."
Well they wouldn't need to, would they. Their genius would speak for itself - and so would their 'humility'.

I'm used to writing for newspapers and my input may sometimes be a bit terse because I am trained writer, heavily subjected to space limitations.

Someone said I submitted a lot of interesting opinions and asked me what kind of Lorikeet I am ... so I told them.

I have often had to tell people on blogs (generally Greens) that I have a high IQ etc because they keep treating me as if I am stupid. Ditto to other revelations. Someone quite high up in the Greens has publicly called me a liar in relation to my life experiences and abilities, which are extensive.

Getting back to the topic at hand, in this morning's news, we were told by Julia Gillard that we need to have an Integrative Economy with countries such as Vietnam, Japan, Korea (sorry missed the rest) with even more calls for increased productivity, despite that dreadfully low increase in the minimum wage.

These provide further proof that the whole world is being brought down to the lowest common economic denominator with peasant lifestyle and back breaking work.

It is my belief that after the next federal election is won by Coalition and they treat the poor and the average like garbage (again), the vote will shift to the Greens to complete the major party duopoly's dirty work.

I could probably write a whole shelf of books on various interactive topics affecting our nation and the world, but this would take too much time.