Dental in Medicare is preventative health care that’s good policy to reduce public hospital expenditure and time off work.
Public Housing reduces crime and therefore expenditure on law and order.
Free Childcare increases workforce participation and productivity.
Next….
Off topic, but for the oldies, where were you when JFK was killed?
I was living in Stawell, heard it on the radio ( no TV then in the Wimmera) . I told my mother that John Kennedy had been killed. She said ‘ What a dreadful thing for football’.
Hopefully she clipped a few on the way past.
Seriously these carnts can fark off, and the enablers
Only two important things happened in that 24 hours. The writer who created the wooden box that takes you to a different world and time died, and the show that took over the baton for a wooden box that takes you to different worlds and times started.
Wow, you must be older than Noonan !
As a Government we will ban Welcome to Country except for some token thing we have in Canberra.
I remember going to Australia House to meet up with other Australians , checking the results that were posted on a pillar at the entrance.
Whitlam 3 votes
Bracks 2 votes
The drunk 0 votes
Were you old enough to vote ?
I wasn’t, so my first vote was in 1974.
We are in good shape. As a country I am confident in our young people taking us forward to a better place.
Last night I had dinner with my kids, and the election came up.
Jr 1, who is just a couple of months too young to vote, but many of his mates are voting for the first time.
He was happy to tell everyone at dinner
‘You know, they can’t tell how you vote? Like, once you’re in the booth, you can just vote how you want…?’
Me: ‘of course mate, that’s democ…’
Jr1 ‘…so you can just go in there, and draw a massive di.ck on the paper, and there’s nothing they can do about it. Did you know about this?’
Sorry guys.
I tried.but parenting isn’t easy. I do have a Jr2, that might be a bit more mature, but only time will tell.
Well, the ■■■■ pick does represent about 90% of the scumbags
I can’t remember when I first voted but it would have been at the time when the voting age was 21. It later went to 18yo, spurred by the conscription age of 18yo in the Vietnam War.
I grew up in Victoria during the Cold War and the Split. State and Fed election results were ho hum.
I think the Hawke win over Fraser was my first experience of living under a Labor Government. I recall Hawke’s response to Fraser warning against Reds under the Bed. Hawke said they wouldn’t be, as that’s where people kept their money. The last days of the DLP Party, the old DLP voters switched to voting for the Libs.
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I do remember voting in the 1967 referendum ( before I left Australia in disgust after the Carlton premiership) but I didn’t realise the significance of it at the time , including how convincingly it was won, Then came the huge disappointments of the Republic and Voice.
Other way around, as I recall.
Fraser claimed that people would be better off keeping their money under their bed under a Labor Government and Hawke wittily replied that wouldn’t be possible because that’s where the Reds were hiding.
My band is half Croxtonites & half Sumnerites so reconciliation is always possible. Even across St Georges Rd.
(tho the Croxtonites are responsible for all the bum notes)
One day, ■■■■ and balls will be named leader of this great nation.
Back in the day when I was on the Bell Street School Bus route, dropping and picking up school kids between Heidelberg and Coburg, , Croxton kids were from the lowest class, lower than the West Heidelberg ones. Preston kids looked down their nose at them.
What no snags? Cmon Marles lift your game
I did say these are all worthy policies. The unanswered question is how to fund them. What other areas of need would be cut/reduced?
what is it with Melbourne ? why do they love Melbourne so much ?
