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The cost of prescriptions for pensioners used to be $5.00 & has gone up 10c per year until it is now $7.70. It has now been frozen for two years. The 10c increase per year happens no matter which govt is in power.

Why was the helicopter fishing? Misplaced clause?

If Ukraine had previously joined NATO. Putin would never have invaded.

They came in through the port, Brisbane I think.

You are not necessarily going to get an increase in pension payments each half year. It depends on the formula the govt. uses. It could go down. The previous govt. changed the previous formula which was based on a different set of numbers & used the present formula the data of which gives a...

It has nothing to do with who is in power.

It is an adjustment made very six months - it is not necessarily an increase, it could be reduced. It depends on the formula used. Previously the formula was different & the pension was higher. The previous government changed the formula & the payment was less. Just remember it does not...

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If the Coalition hadn’t sold of the power companies, the poles & wires we wouldn’t be catering to the shareholders, providing dividends which used to go to the government, consequently to the taxpayers. That’s where all the increased costs have gone.

What rubbish!

I am very old & can remember epidemics of diphtheria, polio, whooping cough & such. I contracted all of them before before immunisation became available. . What a difference it made. Those immunisations took many years to develop and were a completely different thing from the Covid vaccine...

Electricity prices would not be so high if the Coalition government had not privatised the companies, poles & wires. Where did the money from that move go to?

Albanese has been struggling to dig Australia out of the quagmire left by the Morrison lot. That’s why so much more could have been done. Also the Coalition & Greens have combined to block much legislation that was promised before the last election.

Just what do you mean by that?

I don’t believe that.