My god, about bloody time.

Yes, Thinkabit, if any man needs tampons, they should also be free of GST.

However, such products are not bought 'predominantly' by women, but ONLY by women, for exclusive use BY women, except perhaps in your case (my commiserations).

Power tools ? Football tickets ? Used only by men ? So what century are you in again ?

Joe

Watchit...the fox is sniffing around the chook yard gate....

Loudmouth: You say "However, such products are not bought 'predominantly' by women, but ONLY by women, for exclusive use BY women, except perhaps in your case (my commiserations)."

Well, if it makes you happy to know, I actually did pay for some tampons just a couple of weeks ago. The reason why is because I'm a REAL man, who believes that a man should provide for his family and hence I pay ALL of my household's bill and expenses. (My wife and I are retired and we both live of my investment's income.)

Another example of men buying these products is single men who are raising female daughters.

Also it is very common these days for male/female households to spilt their grocery and household expenses 50/50 when both are working, so in these cases men are contributing to the purchase of these items as well.

So while these products may be exclusively used by females it is not at all uncommon for men to buy these products. (Even though people like you and many feminists think that women exclusively pay for them). In fact it would not surprise me at all to find that if you crunched the numbers throughly more men pay (or contribute to paying) for tampons then women do.

And I can guarantee you from experience, when we do pay for them we have NEVER been any discount because we are men. We pay exactly the same GST as any women does. It is simply a complete fabrication that the tax on these products are an instance of sexual discrimination.

Regarding you comment of power-tools and boxing tickets- well I live in the 21st century in Australia, and here these items are still predominately paid for by men (since most are bought by men and the cost of these items are not commonly shared in female/male households unlike groceries and bills).

Yes, you got me there, Thinkabit - I should have written " .... such products are not bought 'predominantly' by women, but ONLY for exclusive use BY women." Perhaps I got that last clause wrong ?

Sorry for my confusion. To reiterate, I don't think men should pay more for tampons and other feminine products than women do, and I think that the scrapping of the GST on them is a very good and overdue move.

Joe

Men need bulkier clothes, shoulder pads and more expensive bulky cars to put women in their place , the home. Short bristly hair and 5 o'clock shadow costs men dearly. And booze which fems can't handle due to weak stomachs. Mens lives matter.

Vote buying 101 by a desperate PM who will lose unless he pulls a rabbit out of his hat.
Philip S,
I have a little rabbit called old age pension asset test & another one called Tax reform & another one called local economic stimuli that the PM could have, that is if he was really interested in staying in Govt.