Can you believe that, 4 @&#*&#$ percent?
Paul1405,
All just smoke screen tactics. It's to cover the much higher amounts going to the 'educated' who aren't actually contributing useful anything to society.
4% sounds a lot but it doesn't sound as much as $10,000/annum which might be a mere 4% in bureaudroid salaries.
I've stated too many times to remember here that we should reduce reduce salaries so wages don't need to go up & so become competitive again ! That goes for Welfare also. Old age Pension is a different scenario because it's neither wage nor welfare, it's self-funded investment unlike Superannuation which is commercial welfare subsidised by taxpayers !
Unless we can move away from that stupid "Growth" mentality the lower paid will never ever get a better deal. We need to concentrate on sustainability so as to bring manufacturing & investment taxes & employee wages back to our shores ! I only wish unions could think for the good of the whole Nation not just those who pay them for making a good living !

SM,

The judges only interpreting the laws of the Fascists Morrison government. The new Federal Immigration Minister, Andrew Giles, intervened to grant the Nadesalingam family permanent residency. I understand they are the wrong colour etc in your eyes, and not your cup of tea. So what!

Indy,

This myth you like to peddle; 'Aged welfare is not welfare', obviously such largesse is welfare, but since your "dole bludger" mentality doesn't allow for you to accept welfare, you concocted some nonsense that you are a special case, and not a welfare recipient. What can I say, well, taxpayer dollars goes into you bank account every fortnight, just like the dole. YOU paid for your pension is nonsense!

How often do we ask 'why do so many refugees speak fluent English?' or "how can they afford the thousands of dollars" to pay people smugglers? or even 'why do we describe some as economic refugees?' If we asked these questions we could find that the solution to our skilled migration problem. Refugees tend to be drawn from the elite of their societies - they are well educated and well trained. Some will be denied the ability to work in their profession and thus see no future for their children.
This is what make Refugees not a problem but the solution to a problem. If we want any evidence of that just look at the contribution the post war refugees and the post Vietnam refugees have made to this country. Why would these refugees be any different? Australia's prosperity has been built on people with the urge to create a better life for themselves and their children.
After the War Australia resisted bring in refugees - they only wanted British migrants that generation learnt an important lesson; one that we seem to have forgotten.

The "fascist" Morrison government. What a load of rot. The Morrison government tried to be as left wing, or Marxist,as Labor, and voters decided to go for the ones who did it better. Besides, there is no difference between fascism and communism, but the ignorant among us don't know that, merely parroting what their masters have drummed into their thick heads.

What is left of the Morrison government looks like being as useless as the Victorian opposition, so it's all downhill for Australia from now on. It will be interesting to see how the lefties go with nobody but Labor and the Greens to blame as everything falls apart.

In the Courier Mail today: 'Labor to introduce Bill to encourage Australian pensioners to downsize homes". A "potential new law", that only the Senate crossbench could block (and we know how 'up' Labor that mob is).

The idea is to replace people living in large homes, many for a long time, and happy to continue doing so, with young families - nothing on how more affordable it would be for the young families.

Whether that's 'communism' of 'fascism', it's a taste of the evils to come from Labor. I've already done my downsizing voluntarily, but the complacent drones need to sit up and take notice of what our new 'fasco-comm' government is up to if they liking living in their home of choice.

ttbn,

Soviet Communism and German National Socialism were branches of the same extremist tree, and they bore the same fruit, but on different branches. They hated each other, not because they were ideologically that different, but because they both were seeking radical controlling power through the proletariat. For one to succeed the other had to be liquidated, they could not coexist.

We are fortunate in Australia that our present circumstances, both economically and socially, prevents extreme radicalism establishing a foothold within society. That is not to say, a deterioration in social order would not give rise to such extremism.

Pensioner housing is a vexed question, we do have many single aged pensioners, supported through welfare living in 4 and 5 bedroom houses. I don't subscribe to the Murdoch gutter press, so I can't directly comment of their article, but given their general history, its most likely a beat up, to attack Labor. There is not the political will to force pensioners out of their abodes at this time.