Why In Millionaire Alley, Do Storms Still Wreak Havoc?
I live in a street where many of the houses are nearing a million dollar value. This is not exceptional in today’s Australia. However, I wonder why, if my suburb is worth hundreds of millions…
The Importance Of Exercising Your Brain For Mental Health
Do you find reading a bit of a pain? Looking up those big words that you don’t understand? Do you prefer to have everything done for you? Well, it will cost you in the end.…
Why Voters Vote Against Their Own Interests?
We live in a time of the ‘culture wars’, where folk get so caught up in identity politics that they lose the plot. Why voters vote against their own interests? Stupid is as stupid does,…
Police Checks: How ‘User Pays’ Fleeces Us All
Today, many jobs require some sort of police check to ensure that the prospective applicant is not a criminal. In the past, this kind of thing was reserved for a specific type of employment and…
Channel 7’s War On Young Australians
Legacy media is an old white people’s thing. Thus, you can understand Channel 7’s war on young Australians in this context. Their viewing audience is older folk and they exploit the fears of that demographic…
Hypocritical News Corp Call For Us To Back Australia
News Corp, the owner of most of our capital city newspapers, could start by paying corporate tax for the first time in a decade if they really wanted to back Australia. Appealing only to the…