Tag Archive | politics
Pondering the value of money in simple terms
The older I get, the more I doubt the wisdom of chasing rainbows. In order to receive good wages, workers must be employed by companies making money. A company that is not making money goes out of business and the employees are then looking for work. If shareholders do not earn a return on their […]
I do not accept corruption – do you?
We should be holding our public figures to account. Today Barry O’Farrell resigned as Premier of NSW over a bottle of Grange. A $3,000 bottle, to be precise. Let me put this into a commercial context. A few years ago I worked for an international company. Acceptance of gifts of any value over about $20 was […]
Work until I am 70
I read Mr Hockey wants us to work until we are 70. If the Abbott government decides to further raise the pension age, it would be staggered over half a decade or more. Read more: SMH – Good article, covers a lot of considerations I probably can work until I am 70, provided I stay on hormone […]
Who IS the boss around here?
Democracy, we are told, is government of the people, by the people, for the people. Yet in the last few months it seems we are to be controlled, not governed in the true sense of a democratic society. Dear Current Government: you work for the people. Just a reminder. The first warning bells sounded with […]
The many mysteries of MH370
Not many of us understand the intricacies of the aviation industry and flight. We know pilots fly planes: how they fly them is a mystery to most of us. Then one disappears. Into what seems like thin air. MH370 disappeared on the morning of March 8, 2014. I admit, like many others I became fascinated […]
The global politics of high altitude piracy
Everyone is used to piracy on the high seas. Somalian pirates on the high seas are renown. Piracy at high altitude? Perhaps we have just seen the first event in a new era. Sooner or later it was bound to happen and maybe this attempt wasn’t successful – until there is a demand issued or […]
Being a one-eyed supporter is easy
It must be wonderful to be a one-eyed supporter of anything: a football team, a soccer team, a political party or ideology; or a religion. If you are a one-eyed supporter you can close your eyes and ears to anything that you think doesn’t fit your world. I’m not a one-eyed supporter of anything. I […]
Goodies, baddies, wimps: where are the ADULTS?
Perhaps the adults are actually in Cambodia, because Australia’s supply seems to have run out! Would somebody out there like to explain, with supporting evidence, why Australia deems it appropriate to dump vulnerable people on third world countries? Manus Island hasn’t worked out so well (not like a raft of people didn’t warn it was […]
Nothing but ocean
Continued from What goes around comes around. A crewman looked at him in disgust. He would see that look in many eyes and he shrank before it. The crewman knew him from the media reports of years ago. The crewman had waited on Nauru for years as a child. Now he was helping his persecutor […]
Work for the dole
Work for the dole is a very, very contentious issue in Australia. Let us make no mistake here, there are valid arguments for and against, despite what both “sides” have to say. .@MinhKular @MikeXcaberate As always, they're just slapping a bandaid on without checking to see what actually caused the bleeding. — Delly Lama (@deltrimental) […]
Random Observations of Life 