[David Ryder]

The problem with living longer due to medical advancements is that for many people their quality of life decreases due to a variety of physical and mental health issues.
I am 75 and still fairly healthy and leading an active life but many of my friends are not so lucky.

[David Ryder]

Australians have been paying top rate for everything for decades. The rest of the world selling their products here add a huge premium and Aussies just pay up. Also the foreigners who mine our resources just take most of the profits home tax free while throwing some crumbs to Aussies and pretending to be good guys doing us a favour.

The only reason many Aussies are reasonably well off is because we are a big country with a small population to share in those crumbs. If this country had been well managed by decades of governments who were not all in the pockets of multinational corporations Australians would be much wealthier and able to afford our high cost of living.

[David Ryder]

In Queensland these cheap fares only apply to Translink services which are mainly metropolitan so many regional Queenslanders get no benefit unless their town has a Translink service.
There is also no benefit to Queensland long distance travellers.
I think these 50 cent fares are a great idea which needs to be expanded so people benefit from them statewide. The Victorian scheme of a $10 cap for a basic seat on long distance trains might be worth adopting.

[David Ryder]

Her cancer was not malignant so was never a threat to her life only her looks as her breasts became lumpy. She had the lumps surgically removed and then reportedly claimed a natural cure.
While I am sure that meditation and natural treatments helped her feel better they did not cure her cancer.

[David Ryder]

The workers at our local Centrelink office are great. But they seem to be working in a flawed system. Their computer sytem is crap and their data is full of errors.
Centrelink online service is ok when it works and it often doesn’t and is also limited in what it can do.
Their phone service is ok if someone ever answers your call before you give up waiting and go to the office.

[David Ryder]

I could never spend it when I am already 70 plus. So I guess I would give a lot away to family and chosen charities. Tour the world in first class, live life to the full and enjoy the years I have left.

[David Ryder]

Most of the stuff in our shops is not made in Australia, it’s the same product that the online retailers sell coming in from overseas.
The difference is usually the price with online sellers I have used being about 30% cheaper than in the shops, although things like auto parts can be up to 90% cheaper than dealer prices.
It’s just how it is and I don’t think this can be changed much.

[David Ryder]

Cost of living is a killer. But also there is a lot of confusion these days about being a parent especially when it comes to dealing with unruly kids.
Legislation is making parents afraid to discipline their kids when they need it and we now have a generation of entitled young thugs getting around who seem to be untouchable.

[David Ryder]

As you age hot places are better than cold places because the warmth eases arthritic pain.

[David Ryder]

Maybe if people knew it existed some may find it useful.

[David Ryder]

Bob Katter is my federal member and although I generally support his party I do think he is too old to be effective in the job. Now when he speaks he rambles and goes way off topic like Biden and Trump.
Everyone is different and that makes it hard to put a one age fits all on retirement but from life experience I think 70 would be a fair and reasonable upper age limit for politicians.

[David Ryder]

Was it freehold land or a lease. If it was a lease it would have had conditions attached which clearly were not being met.
I think Double Island is mostly National Park and a conservation area so all land in such sensitive areas should only ever be leasehold with strict conditions.
Nearby Dunk Island has been in a similar situation for at least a decade with a collapsed resort which is now a derelict eyesore.

[David Ryder]

The private rental market is just a giant tax dodge and profit spinner for the mostly already wealthy. That is a major factor generating our highly overpriced housing market and homelessness or paying high rent to live in a substandard house.
The landlord class have had it too good for too long.

[David Ryder]

I have assisted the kids with minor things like small loans and/or gifts but would never enter into any formal arrangement for larger support including going guarantor.
Too many things can go wrong.

[David Ryder]

It is another left over from the many failed policies of the former LNP government.
This government should probably just dump it.

[David Ryder]

Is it? I can not find any comment on this from Albo or the government at all.

[David Ryder]

There is no mention of the PM in the article. Has Albo actually commented on this at all?
The only comments are from a group called Suburbtrends which is a greedy profit hungry real estate agent spinoff.

[David Ryder]

Sounds like a reason to buy more of it.

[David Ryder]

Most people I know who still smoke tobacco grow and cure their own which is easy to do, but also there is a flourishing black market where chop chop sells for about half the price of taxed tobacco. As it costs so little to produce here or smuggle in the sellers are making big tax free profits.
If the tobacco tax was not so high then more people may buy legal tobacco and the government would collect some tax instead of none. Tobacco use is not declining only legal sales are.

[David Ryder]

No and it will never happen. Just desperate politics by the Conservatives.
The reason it will never happen is that the armed forces would never accept most of today’s youth into their ranks.

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