PeelerSheila

"There is also a real onward danger, Mr Pringle believes, of older Australians pulling back from the sort of social community activities that are vital for physical and mental health.

“If they are not able to leave their house, because doing so in any way except maybe going for a walk around your block is going to cost you some amount of money, it means that all they’re doing is just trying to get by day-to-day,” he said.

"That’s a really horrible way for somebody to live. "

Young double income homebuyers I work with are already in this situation.

They seem to enjoy each other’s company, how cute. Spotted lunching in Thailand in January

-Her hospital doctors wrote four medical certificates to Centrelink, but all of them were rejected.

Would love to know who these people are, who are such experts in medicine that they can reject the written word of experienced medical professionals currently practising in the field.

Idiots. They haven’t learnt from last election when they embraced aunty Gina’s Trump policy push. They are hoping the rhetoric poisons society enough that they cruise to an election victory on it. They don’t deserve to govern.

Tax the earnings of the corporations that extract our resources for free? No, easier to fiddle around with numbers and try to rationalise services for children in need 😒

Hey Benny: I’ve had several Aussie Jewish friends voice great displeasure and upset over your actions. You don’t represent Australian Jews.

Hey Mike, fuck off

I love how, even on a still day, you can stand beneath them and hear the gentle whispering of the wind.

I think using your super as a deposit for a house is a terrible idea because you could basically end up like my mum: an elderly homeowner having to pay to maintain and repair an ageing home and no income other than the pension to live on. She’s long gone now, but I’ll never forget how hard it was for her, and how she had to borrow money from a friend to replace the old heater that broke and couldn’t be fixed. Every pension day it was decision time, what to pay and what to delay. Meanwhile the house was slowly falling into disrepair.