Government would suffer if smoking is banned
There will be an election in September, so now is the time for our pollies to propose a drastic measure for all Australian people. At the present time, less than twenty per-cent of the population smoke, but there is growth in the number of younger people who are taking up smoking for the first time. … [Read the full story]
Tommy Taylor’s SRU (Sunday Round-Up)
Another week of spin and pollies ducking the issues they promised when elected. Both parties highlighted issues relating to education, policing and health. Crime is increasing…especially violent crime. The promise of more police officers recruited to the force has been a miserable failure. There’s going to be more doctors and nurses to boost our hospitals … [Read the full story]
Why so many disasters…did we anger the Gods?
It seems today we have more and more terrible disasters occurring every day. Yes, TV live coverage shows us more of life and death today than ever before and history in the past was recalled usually by story-telling or eye witness accounts. Either could be open to questions of accuracy. But given modern technology, don’t … [Read the full story]
Julia Gillard…stop ruining Australia
I read with interest the article by the finance reporter of Ozzie News. I agree in part, especially about stopping the boat people before they arrive and leave Indonesia. Also how our pollies, especially Prime Minister Julia Gillard, do not understand the problem. Spending large sums to stop boats is not the answer. Spending large … [Read the full story]
The storm in W.A.
I am not referring to the carbon tax, pollies and prostitutes…or even an alleged slip by Slippers. No, I am referring to the storm that swept through the suburbs of Perth, Australia. When my children were younger , they tended to be nervous around animals. Dogs made them pull back in alarm…and feathered birds made … [Read the full story]
Why the carbon tax?
In years long ago kings, emperors and rulers raised taxes mainly to fight and finance wars. In today’s modern societies, taxes are a fiscal way of adding extra money to the government purse. Many ways are explored to deliberately raise extra money. In the past we had windows tax and brick tax, corn tax even … [Read the full story]
Leave our Rupert alone
Eighty-one years old and employing over fifty thousand people. He runs companies worth billions of dollars, also making millions of dollars each week. Building from small beginnings in Oz to international media super companies. Maybe you don’t understand what the Pollies are saying when they accuse Rupert Murdoch of not being able to be a … [Read the full story]
Labor’s losing ground
I was considering why Labor is losing ground in the opinion polls. Julia Gillard consistently pushes ahead with policies to keep her small greens and others happy. Mineral taxes are given so many different spins that we lose out on where the money is going to, how much it will be and what are the benefits. … [Read the full story]
Please keep Australia, Australian
I was amazed at how in the past fifty years the pollies got away with losing control of ownership of the most important companies in the UK. I thought it was a gag and could not be real. But breaking news is that China has taken over the largest water company in the UK. The … [Read the full story]
Tax in OZ, sounds like an unpalatable medicine
When you see a group of pollies join together to discuss taxes, beware. The outcome of three days planning on the future of taxes in Australia always results in the same outcome. Future predictions of increases to tax allowances and changes to current tax levels. The immediate effect is to set up a forum to … [Read the full story]
