It may be that some people's sole purpose in life
is to serve as a warning to others.

I think that Foxy's comment is straight out of Balthasar Gracian's Book Of Worldly Wisdom- "the only thing that a fool can teach others is what not to do". I was surprised that she might have read it!

CM,

Yes. One of those bananas that growers are complaining about being rotten by the time they reach retailers due to Covid and transport problems.

individual,

Yes. I don't think that I would even have a credit rating. Have never bought anything until I have the cash to pay for it - including motor vehicles; debit card, not a credit card. Three separate mortgages, all paid off well before the agreed term - never borrowed for anything except housing. I think cheap money is coming to and end, and a lot of people spending other people's money are in for a big surprise.

People like us, and others like us, are invisible. Everything is set up for spendthrifts and no nopers, who want everything that they see rich people with - the people supplying most of what they borrow, the people rubbish and want to pay even more tax.

ttbn said- "People like us, and others like us, are invisible. Everything is set up for spendthrifts and no hopers, who want everything that they see rich people with - the people supplying most of what they borrow, the people rubbish and want to pay even more tax."

Answer- We need to make them invisible. Take back the power. Ayn Rand said the non-productive want to take from the productive- Moochers and Looters.

" Australia has certainly come a long way over the years.
From its humble beginnings it has become a thriving,
wealthy modern nation. Who would have thought, when
the unhappy denizens of the First Fleet were huddled,
starving and desperate on the shores of Port Jackson,
that one day Australia would grow so powerful and
confident on the world stage.

The real beauty of this country lies not in its trees,
seas, or cassowaries, but in the greatest resource that
any country can have - its people. The Australian people
define Australia, create it, represent it, and make
flesh the aspirations our young, ambitious nation has
always had. Every inhabitant adds something to Australia,
makes it more Australian than it would otherwise be.

Obviously, there are some Australians who have left a
greater footprint on the pants seat of the world.
Great Australians come in all shapes and sizes and from
all backgrounds. Some come from the city, some from the
country. They come from every state and often from
different countries driven to become Australian.

Over the course of its history, Australians have become
titans of business, legends of sport, giants of science,
colossi of philanthrophy and pygmies of politics.

Australians have led the world in a myriad ways, whether
generating wealth, inspiring youth, opening up new vistas of
human potential, saving lives, they have done it all in a
peculiarly Australian way, with a swagger and style that
marks a person out as an inhabitant of the scientifically
determined greatest country on earth.

To these earthly gods of the Antopodes, we salute you, the
most Australian way we know with the joyous cry:

"Aussie! Aussie! Aussie!"

(This was taken from Ben Pobjie's book - "Aussie Aussie Aussie.")

That $30million handout was given to Murdoch by the Morrison Government but later increased to $40million at the same time it cut ABC funding by another $84million and history isn't a two-week wide moving window.

It's incorrect to say that private media costs us nothing if we choose not to watch it.
It's funded by advertising and advertising in turn is funded by a sort of levy on everything you buy that is advertised. It's not funded by after-tax profit but as a cost and it's the consumer who pays for it and costs us each far,far more than the ABC.
You can't choose to avoid it - not everyone is a taxpayer but we are all consumers.
So as well as paying the salaries of ABC staff we also pay the same for everyone employed in the rest of the media.

I'm surprised that Sky After Dark is unknown by anyone, particularly those stalk sites like this. It's the name they themselves have given to a collection of opinion shows posing as news and hosted by extremist right-wing pundits with the same agenda and like many on this site, spend their time attacking the left but somehow never get around to to defend the right.

According to policy and financial experts, limiting interest rate rises would increase demand, which would in turn push house prices higher.
It would be extremely difficult (if not impossible)for the federal government to control rates set by private banks, so the only likely way for this policy to work would be if the government subsidised interest rates. "It’s as if there is absolutely no rational thought behind this policy.”
This promise will go the way of Hanson's promised 2% flat-tax and abolish-the-GST miracle.