Banjo Paterson, "Thank you for that video of Peter FitzSimons and his wife in the garden of their beautiful home"

No problems.

This article (linked below) has some photos of 'burbs that are out of sight of there and far from your pleasant seat in France. You will be surprised to learn of people and 'burbs where any 'stray dollars'(sic) could be spent, particularly on mental health assistance and counselling, along with interventions for booze, drugs and domestic violence.

Also of interest, in Far North Queensland alone, by the first week of September 2015, there were twenty-seven road fatalities in that low populated region.

Just sticking with North Qld, drought has forced de-stocking of farms and farmers off land,
http://www.qt.com.au/news/qld-farmers-dollar-drought-campaign-gains-momentum/2794300/

What about the ambulance ramping at major Brisbane hospitals?
http://tinyurl.com/px9pkj7

Plenty of other urgent needs not being met, but they too can always wait for later, one assumes.

Only the naive could imagine that there is always money available to blow millions on tweaking a system that isn't broken and is working satisfactorily. If only the pollies could get their act together.

-Which is why the public are not leaping onto that bandwagon with the poseur with the red nappy on his head.

Link to 'Struggle Streets' article,

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3070425/Mount-Druitt-struggle-postcode-racism-SBS-gritty-look-area-grew-in.html

otb, who often pretends to be one who respects others on this forum and elsewhere, showing his true colours (again)

"....the poseur with the red nappy on his head."

Of course, otb's respect is limited to posters and public personalities with whom he shares a common opinion - everyone else is lambasted with disrespectful language.

Ho hum...that's what he does.

Regarding otb's litany of "urgent needs".

Perhaps otb could write to his heroes in the federal govt and suggest they cease spending money on their bombing of Syria...you know the bombing campaign with no actual strategy...that one.

And perhaps as an aside he could suggest that Malcolm the Great nix the multi billion purchase of the F-35 joint strike lemon...since Tones is no longer around to pump up his reputation as a Churchillian wartime PM.

All that money would go along way to addressing otb's examples.

otb,

Here's another saving now that Abbott has relocated to the backbench and world speaker's tour ($40,000 to have Tones was lyrical at your event!)

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-10-23/taxpayers-pick-up-bill-for-empty-hotel-rooms-torres-strait-trip/6879716

"The Prime Minister's Department has charged taxpayers $37,000 for hotel beds in the Torres Strait Islands that were never slept in.

Former prime minister Tony Abbott visited Thursday Island as part of his trip to North Queensland in August, with a significant ministerial and departmental entourage.

Overall, the department has confirmed in Senate estimates it spent $180,000 relocating the "seat of government" for the week."

For a week!

Loads of ways to save waste...and we can still have a republic!

Poirot, 'It's Abbott, Abbott, Abbott'.

Where is the patient Shadow Minister to play Poirot's forum parlour game of 'tit-for-tat', where Poirot never makes fair exchange, continually changes the rules and every path leads to, 'It's Abbott, Abbott, Abbott'.

"Poirot, 'It's Abbott, Abbott, Abbott'.

Where is the patient Shadow Minister to play Poirot's forum parlour game of 'tit-for-tat', where Poirot never makes fair exchange, continually changes the rules and every path leads to, 'It's Abbott, Abbott, Abbott'."

Lol!...says the guy who posts ad nauseum on "leftists" and "feminists" and "progressives"

Why even in this thread, you've resorted to the "red nappy" put down more than once...but I suppose that's about as clever as it gets in otb land.

Pot - kettle