‘ … She tore their boats to splinters but she gave them dreams to dream.’ – Democracy, from Woodie Guthrie’s ‘Roll on Columbia’ Well, knucklehead has appointed Tough Tony as indiginous envoy. Christ, lord almighty .. I’ve spent a bit of time talking with the indiginous and I’ll tell ya, there isn’t a person more detested and distrusted by the indiginous than Tough Tony. This isnt something Ive just discovered (nor is it a fact that Scotty and the boys…
Went deeper bush yesterday .. kinda by accident .. a change of trees and birds. Too many trees. One of the problems with going deeper bush these days is that you always come across some poor soul who’s trying to go even deeper. For whatever reason. Anyway, the little clearing I’m in – obviously a vehicle dismantling yard at sometime in the past, not the sort of place backpackers stop in – is part of the ingress to a ‘deep…
Ah, poor Barney the Dunce now he’s all up in arms because of a hint, a whiff that his self-reporting of ‘travel expenses’ could be a bit iffy. A bit! Well, he’s claimed $16k expenses for him and his girlfriend. $16k ‘travel expenses’ for him and his girlfriend.. at our expense, but for our own good and most definitely in our, Australia’s, interest – he says. Self reporting. An employee of the people is allowed to do that. The people…
“The End Justifies the Means”, so this corporative government tells us. Well, if you were bought up in my generation, then you were taught that it most definitely didn’t! Ive never bothered too much with tax. Not given it too much thought. Paid it, but didnt give it much thought. Its just a thing you do as a member of society… Like voting – I know many people who give voting far less thought than I’d ever given to tax….