I have to worry about the Australia we’re living in. I read in the news today that older folks are likely to be doing it tough, especially if they’re retired. There’s a turn-up for the books. We’re usually disparaged as greedy, grasping Baby Boomers. “Worries about running out of savings in retirement are affecting a…
The news in Australia is full of two things: the Brittany Higgins rape allegations and who in the parliament knew what when, and the latest outpourings on the up-coming Voice referendum. For my non-Australian readers, Brittany Higgins accused fellow ministerial staffer Bruce Lehrmann of raping her on a couch in the Defence Minister’s office. The…
The current Government has delivered its budget and is crowing with delight that it has managed to come up with a surplus, which is great. It comes on the back of full employment (because we drastically reduced the migrant intake during covid) and the coal industry. It’s good to know there’s finally going to be…