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My 83 year old husband has heart problems and been in emergency several times, each waiting over 10 hours in uncomfortable chairs where nurses are run off their feet trying to cope with masses of patients. Some patients on drugs are abusive and often disruptive but the nurses still have to cope...

Are there no rules regarding AI? Can AI be used willy-nilly, by anyone who knows how to use AI for whatever reason he or she likes? Looks like it - scary future ...

So true Rob44, we put the con in convenience. We shop mainly at ALDIs for nearly all essentials and fruit and vegies at the local fruit and vegie store which is locally patronised as produce is fresh and prices reasonable. Why remain loyal to the multinationals when being regularly conned?

Dreadful, barbaric and shameful. How shameful to shoot a creature that has no means to shoot back or protect itself?

Brilliant portrait capturing his expression to the tee. The artist might've wanted the red to express his strength of character and the butterfly his closeness to nature. Who knows? But certainly drawing attention and thought-provoking as a portrait should do and a compliment to the subject.

Yes, I agree, it's time we set up our own "customers'" bank. That's how the Qudos bank was set up back in the 1900s, by a group of Qantas staff. They made their own rules, mainly to the benefit of their customers. However it's now only on line. Probably much harder to set up a "real" bank in...

If we don't complain we'll continue to accept all the controls that are put on us. It's become more and more obvious that we're a compliant population. Why do we accept to do our own checkouts for nothing so that the supermarkets don't have to pay anyone? To help the supermarkets to make more...

Why is the government not doing anything about the rising prices at the supermarkets, etc.? Shouldn't they have the power to put a stop to these rising prices?

You'd think they'd take the chance to helping the poor or other disadvantaged people. Maybe they do, we don't know.

Yes. Greed the great motivator. I never shop at Coles or Woolworths for that reason, unless I can't get certain items anywhere else. I shop at Aldies and one or two of the few remaining fruit and vegie outlets still operating.

My 83 year old husband went through a similar experience at Nepean Hospital in Penrith. He had breathing problems, has a pacemaker and two stents and was taken to the hospital by ambulance in the evening. He spent 15 hours in Emergency sitting up on a hard chair and later given a pull-out bed...

Supermarkets and politicians, plus multinationals know that they have a docile population to play with, so they know they can keep pulling the strings tighter and tighter without any resistance. Let's all go to Aldi's, complain about the electricity prices and all the other price hikes...

Yes, it's always the Joe Blow in the street who's hit the hardest. Even though we don't all know the figures involved, we know we're being conned as it happens with regular monotony on holidays. The corporations, hand in hand with the government, are the winners.

For those going through this stress right now, and goodness knows when affordable housing will begin being built, surely the government could at least implement temporary assistance at this point in time? This could be based, as pointed out in the article, on "a more realistic evaluation of...