If a recent Compass Poll is reliable, 60%:of Australians are convinced that they are victims needing help from Big Brother, leading in turn to the serfdom that politicians of all hues want to put them under. They were given other problems to think about: climate change, health etc, but they only got from 0.3:% to 10% interest.

The exaggration and media scaremongering has successfully taken their minds off other problems that the government wants kept quiet.

Aged welfare should be reduced to pre-pandemic levels. BTW does anyone know how much the old aged pension was in 1664 before the pandemic? Evidence here shows by the comments from some old folk that they are being over paid by us taxpayers!

On the way to do the weekly shopping today, we passed three petrol stations with no $2.20 plus petrol that we were threatened with after the other half if the excise was put back on last week.

Petrol prices are higher than we are used to, and it does affect goods and services, but most of us can do something about it in our private enterprise/market economy by buying less of it, or none at all if we live and work in cities with efficient and plentiful public transport. Prices will not come down if people keep paying them.

Aged welfare alert; BAKED BEANS @ Coles 89c can. Stock up! While the getten' good!