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Here's a list of some of the high-flyers as regards spending up big on the public purse, on travel, food and accommodation. Julie Inman-Grant, the e-Safety Commissioner, gets $444,000 in annual salary and booked up $102,769 in travel expenditure just in the last year. I'd have to question just how much of this travel is really necessary, seeing as most ordinary employees have to do video conferences - and I don't think all the family needs to travel business class - which fares are often 5 or 6 times the cost of an economy fare. Note how the travel bookings by public servants surged by 20%, when Qantas offered a double status credits promotion! https://www.senatorpaterson.com.au/news/millions-spent-on-travel

Well, give the MAGA mob a break - at least they've still got the Donkey!

Sounds like a paragraph from an Onion skit.

I reckon Willie got a new lease on life with his new hip and he's probably built another couple of sheds by now, as well as finished a heap of projects. He hasn't got time any more, for BS'ing on forums. 😄 I trust Spacey's O.K., and hasn't taken a turn for the worse. For most, the old body starts playing up, once you're over 80.

Maybe randomx is a long way from the nearest Centrelink office and has trouble getting there. Randomx, it would help for a start, to let us know where you live and if you have problems travelling. Some local councils have pensioner assistance people, and Legal Aid NSW can also assist with pension applications if you're in that State.

One of the beauties of running stock around solar panels is they keep the vegetation short, so it has less chance of carrying a big fire.

And right there, is part of what's wrong in this country. Add in the number of top public servants "on the make" as well, and we're well on the way to being a 3rd world country. So many of the pricks getting caught lately with helping themselves, based on straight-out criminal greed. The penalties should be doubled for these greedy pricks in exalted positions. https://www.afp.gov.au/news-centre/media-release/commonwealth-employee-among-three-people-charged-over-alleged-multi https://www.nacc.gov.au/convictions https://www.counterfraud.gov.au/case-studies/senior-public-servant-involved-australias-largest-public-sector-fraud We've one prick who was working for Fremantle Ports Authority, he scammed $5M out of the Authority, took off for the high life overseas, and they still haven't caught him after more than 6 years. https://www.watoday.com.au/national/western-australia/perth-family-s-alleged-freo-ports-rort-blows-out-to-5m-as-contractors-hit-with-new-charges-20200915-p55vqw.html

God helps those who help themselves, but God help anyone caught helping themselves. Old sign from an orchard.

Anika Wells has to go, she makes Chopper Bronnie look good. What a prime "snout in the trough" merchant, Wells is. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12-09/wells-spends-thousands-on-comcars-for-grand-finals/106117742

Arson is responsible for about 40% of bushfires - but a lot of that is accidental arson - i.e. - carelessness, such as grinding or welding near dry grass. Dry lightning strikes are responsible for about another 40% of bushfires, leaving about 20% being caused by fallen powerlines or electrical faults. I would be very surprised to find that the solar farm caused the fire, they're designed to ensure safety in operation.

Trump has just handed American farmers US$12B in subsidies, to make up for all their farming losses, thanks to his tariff policies. Last time he was President, he gave them $23B because they lost out big-time, due to his trade policies back then. No wonder U.S. farmers keeping voting for him! https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-farmer-bailout-tariffs-b2880213.html

Samuel L. Jackson for President!! 🙂

Sumer is icumen in. Sumer is icumen in, Lhude sing cuccu! Groweþ sed and bloweþ med And springþ þe wde nu, Sing cuccu! Awe bleteþ after lomb, Lhouþ after calue cu. Bulluc sterteþ, bucke uerteþ, Murie sing cuccu! Cuccu, cuccu, wel singes þu cuccu; Ne swik þu nauer nu. Pes: Sing cuccu nu. Sing cuccu. Sing cuccu. Sing cuccu nu!

Aww, C'mon Marty - Stop the diplomatic descriptions, and tell us what you really think of Trump.

The developers, combined with the vast sums of money available in the sporting arena today, will always get their way. I think this stadium is idiocy, especially the siting, and the monetary burden on such a small number of the Australian population. It's not like the money is being thrown into a major energy or water or food security plan, or other future national civilisation security outlay - it's just the equivalent of a Roman amphitheatre. The W.A. Govt outlaid £2.5B ($5B) for the massive (for its time) Kalgoorlie reticulated water scheme, between 1899 and 1902. The project involved a large new dam, a 600km pipeline, 8 large steam-driven pumping stations, a sizeable number of storage tanks, and all the associated infrastructure. The State population was only 140,000 people at the time, and the howls of outrage over the massive repayment burden (for centuries, claimed the opponents) on the W.A. population, were loud and long - and the loudest and most virulent opposition came from the editor of the local Sunday Times, one Frederick Vosper. Vosper's continuous vicious attacks on the architect of the scheme, Charles Yelverton O'Connor, led to O'Connor committing suicide under the stress of the attacks, and overwork. Regardless, the scheme has been a major success, and has returned its outlay in spades over 123 years, and Kalgoorlie has produced hundreds of billions worth of gold and other important minerals, thanks to the ample supply of water available to the W.A. Goldfields. I see no similar success or monetary return for the Tasmanians on their sporting outlay. The only beneficiaries will be that small number of people involved in major sports, and sports events are not energy, water or food security plans.