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    2024-25 federal budget set to ‘alleviate pocket pressures’ amid cost-of-living crisis

    What am hoping for? In three words Truth, Recognition, Accountability. I know, fat chance Staples like milk, bread, butter, eggs have risen by between 45% and 60% in our local IGA since this time last year (milk 3L bottle $4.50 to $6.90 = 53.3%). Don't quote ABS numbers to me. I can do the...
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    September 2023 Age Pension Changes: Centrelink is increasing your payments!

    This is bullshit. 3L of milk at local supermarkets in this 2799 region is now $6.50 (increase since last pension increase:50%.) diesel is now $2.10 (increase since last pension increase: 10.5%. I could go on to demonstrate the cpi figures used by the government are purposefully fraudulent...
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    Commonwealth Ombudsman uncovers two decades' worth of Centrelink debt miscalculations in shocking report

    Its a weak intellect and sloppy argument that targets the writer and. not the content.
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    Commonwealth Ombudsman uncovers two decades' worth of Centrelink debt miscalculations in shocking report

    These problems arise less because of mathematical complexity and disregard for legal compliance, but more for the jealousy that covers payments to those citizens who are deemed unworthy by those who deem themselves more worthy. No one vets Richard Marles exploitation of treasury funds when he...
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    JobSeeker base rate hike announced to address inflationary pressures

    I understand budget constraints. I do NOT understand why they impose so heavily upon pensioners. Surely an ethical Labor government would see it as a much higher and fairer priority to recover the fraudulent jobkeeper payments made to the Harvey Normans and Geelong Colleges (et al) during the...
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