Sometimes means testing can become more expensive and time consuming than just getting the benefit out the door to everyone.

Plus its less popular because you inevitably have the murdoch-whingers crying about the less wealthy being undeserving by dint of their lack of wealth, and also people complaining over edge cases that miss out.

I feel compelled to represent as a moderator of c/perth/westernaustralia over on the Aussie-Zone server.

There are tots-defs ten or twenty people here that will understand this hop, skip and a jump reference.

So, ah, yeah, sure showed you! 3! pffft!

The US led west, (very much including australia), are such hypocrites over these atrocities. Theres probably more evidence for these than the Russian war crimes in Ukraine. And yet there are no chest beating bellows of morality from the supposedly moral western governments when it comes to Israels likely crimes.

The region only seems to react to power. The rug will have to be pulled eventually for this to stop, do it now, save a few lives.

Or you know, keep going with the Grand Strategy against Iran. Who cares if a few more crimes are committed against Palestinians if the 'big dogs' taken out. /s

At the end of the day, even if they take down the Ayatollah, and the revolutionary guard at best it'll be a pyrrhic win for the west and arab states. Inter-generational scars don't heal because some leadership group is replaced.

I hate reading this stuff, but cheers u/zero-gravitas for posting. We have to know the good and the wrong things happening, and we are associated with. Whichever side of this particular subject people come down on.

This is a lazy argument.

First, because the comment stands alone, it invites the ridiculous assertion that if voting is expensive, then why should we do any voting at all?

But, of course, thats probably not the intent of the comment. I'd guess your intent was to state how much of a waste that particular vote was. Which is likewise how many people probably felt about the same sex marriage plebiscite, or before that the republic referendum, or any other you can think of.

The point is, a large enough portion of effected people across the country were deemed to see this issue as important enough to consider or rebuff a proposed change. It might've meant nothing to you, in this case, but there were people on both sides of the argument that it meant a lot to, and they still needed the rest of us to weigh in.

Anyway, my issue is with the argument put in dollar terms like that, it just misses the point of all these sorts of things we do.

Never assume a bottle of apple juice in a footwell is apple juice.

Um, i suppose you could apply the effect of the black plague on middle ages europe.

Estimated to have killed 1/3 of all people. There was a subsequent rise in wages/worker bargaining power attributed to the lack of labour supply.

I suppose thats an example of rock bottom and coming back with some benefit.

I wouldn't call it 'bouncing' back though, more like struggling on with a sliver of silver on those grey clouds. Not an adviseable course for a country to take.

Whats the mural?

Hmm, you raise a good point. In the last few days the conversation has also been about colesworth. Maybe they're thinking about a more general corporations tax increase, or some kind of fine regime in situations where market power is seen to be being abused.

Me, i favour closing corporations tax loop-holes and increasing corporations tax a bit. As far as stage 3 goes, keep most of it, because bracket creep has happened. But reintroduce the removed tax bracket so the end result is everybodies income tax moves up in line with the tax we were paying years ago.

This concocted nuclear energy debate, being pushed by the industry, is such a powerful reminder that while attitudes in aggregate can change across generations, the same propaganda previous generations fell for, future ones will also fall for.

This is analogous to 'clean coal'. The whole campaign rests on these technical truths that are cynically used to make sweeping generalisations about an industry in order to shape the good faith arguments and policy recommendations against the industry as radical and over-reaching to the casual observer.

Chef the movie with Jon Favreau, and then the Netflix Series he did with Roy Choi, introduced Alio e Olio to me. Parsley is a key ingredient and it shines. When you get the balance of flavours and textures right in that dish, its happy days! Its a refreshing but filling dish.

Blessed is the mind too small for doubt!

Ah, the classic bloatware, because they can!