The Money or the Box.

The recent very public split from the new LNP by two elected representatives has left questions and has also allowed some to go off half cocked in either support or attack about the reasons and the follow up from it.

But after seeing some clips on TV that were edited out of an interview (for some reason) there may be a simple answer to the question of "why quit?"

After the also very public deputy leadership challenge on Springborg by McLindon and supported by Rob Messenger which showed a complete lack of loyalty, understanding of machinations or grasp of the party membership and numbers, the playmates were put out to Coventry it seems, relieved of any useful roles and banished to keep them quiet and save the party leadership team from further publicity.

But according to these clips, there could have been more, because it seems that punishment was to continue and more, there was a request that money be given (i think i recall the sum of $12,000) to help win marginal seats.

I'm guessing that was the straw that broke the camel's back, after all we have seen other LNP candidates (even before the creation of the LNP) campaign while still taking their salary from another public office, ( McLindon did not, because the rules governing State elections require a prior public office to be vacated before becoming eligible to be elected to the State ) in what can only be described as utter greed.

Could it be so simple? asked to donate some of the big bucks that State MP's get for relatively little effort, . . and they spat the dummy? well we are asking the question now aren't we?


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The Unions, . . . . and Work Choices.

We all know there will be a Federal election before the years end, there has to be, so it's no surprise that some candidates are already on the campaign trail reving up supporters and helpers and generally letting the general voters know they are around, in some cases at the expense of their day time job and people who depend on them.

Anyone who watches TV will have begun to see adds about Work Choices, adds by the unions and they intimate that if elected a conservative government will re-introduce the controversial legislation.

This is important, because the John Howard led conservative government was voted out for one main reason and that was Work Choices which was perceived by workers in general as putting their job security in jeopardy and handing more of the power balance to employers than ever before.

Further, it seemed that with unions not required to get enterprise bargaining agreements between employers and employees union membership was beginning to wane, . . . big time.

As far as I can see, Labor, and it's glib, smirking, gushing leader who won the election on a promise to get rid of Work Choices have really only made one significant change to it, and that is to allow workers to have union representation for and during ETA's if they want to.

Many believe that this was only a measure to keep what is an outdated and irrelevant (since they were required to be registered with the government and fulfill a lot of other restrictive regulations brought out by a previous Labor government who had a leader who cried more times than the current one has honoured promises) body alive to raise money for future Labor election campaigns.

And there you have it, we basically still have Work Choices with a few little alterations to appease the unions, and now in return we have the usual million dollar union scare campaign on our TV's and radio's telling us the sky will fall if we don't vote Labor.

Personally I'm sick of labor having all the advantage in elections, they have their own votes, the greens votes and the unions telling every worker how bad it's going to be under a conservative Government.

We really need to look at the wording of union adds carefully, because they don't actually say we have any benefit from voting Labor , they are just a scare campaign, and totally not in the spirit of democracy.


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The Brimble verdict, what is it saying to us?

In July 2007, after a 66-day inquest, New South Wales Deputy State Coroner Jacqueline Milledge ruled there was enough evidence to charge known persons over her death.

Letterio Silvestri and Ryan Kuchel pleaded guilty to perverting the course of justice, while Wilhelm was charged with manslaughter and supplying a prohibited drug.




The jury has been told the Brisbane mother died after consuming a toxic combination of alcohol and the drug GHB - also known as fantasy or liquid ecstasy - hours after boarding the P&O cruise ship Pacific Sky in September 2002.

She was found naked on the floor of a cabin belonging to Wilhelm, with whom she had earlier had sex.

The New South Wales Supreme Court jury of seven women and five men retired last Tuesday after a four-week trial, with Justice Roderick Howie urging them to "be courageous''.

After accepting Wilhelm's guilty plea to supplying Brimble with the GHB, judge Roderick Howie attacked the 2006 inquest, presided over by Deputy State Coroner Jacqueline Milledge, describing it as inciting a trial by media based on rumour, conjecture, hysteria and prejudice.

"The coronial inquiry was, to the extent to which I am aware of it, unfortunate in that it allowed a lot of material -- which ultimately was irrelevant -- to be exposed to the media," Justice Howie said.."

You readers may already have an idea that I personally believe the legal system we have in Australia is designed to deliver a lot of money to Judges, Barristers and lawyers, and certainly not about giving the people real justice.

This is a case where I believe we see that so apparently that the courts involvement is an embarrassment to justice, and the judges comments are an afront to human dignity and an oafish, personal enditement of the character of a judge who appears to believe the defendents "story" (calling it evidence) and disregarding all the other statements collected from countless others which refutes, dissagrees, and points to inconsistancies in the defence.

What seems to be a case of a group of predatory men out to drug a woman for their own gratification, sexual use and humiliation has come undone and only a few paltry charges remain, perverting the course of justice (lying under oath?) and supply a dangerous drug. (GBH)

The recording of an almost unconcious woman participating in acts with the men, apparently in no condition to give concent, not relevent.

The statements by many other women saying they were harrassed by the men and offered a "private party", not relevent.

The statements by relatives that the victim was seeking a headache releif, not relevent.

The statements by relatives that the defendant was not of the character to agree to the ensuing events of that night, not relevent.

The list goes on, the judge seems to have only considered the statements of men who could be in serious trouble if events occurred as they seemed to rather than as they have told the court they did.

Consider this story, a woman , a little bit drunk and happy, is heading out of a common area seeking a panadol, when she encounters a man who says he can give her one, she's in a good mood and has no reason to distrust another passenger and accepts his offer of help.

They say she agreed to it all, she is not there to defend herself, she could have agreed to "take a panadol" and they could have given her GBH.

The rest of the nights events are said by the Judge to have been concentual, sex with at least one of the men, recordings of gross indecent acts and sexual depravity, humiliation both verbal and physical, and all of it whilst she appeared to be almost unconcious, yet the judge seems to be saying that she had agreed to it.


We need to put a stop to judgements like this, if there is no evidence a judge should reject the case on that basis, not make statements that say it's ok to do what these men quite obviously seem to have done, and got away with doing.

The judge in my opinion is an abomination to justice, . . I hope the bastard sleeps well with his blood money.


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Housing prices skyrocketing, but not just in Australia.

We have heard in the press and TV media that foreigners with money or with cheap interest rates available are buying up in our market and forcing up prices and making the Australian Dream of owning ones own home almost a fairy tale.

Realistically it's quite possible that this is indeed the case as we've just gone through a few of the fastest growth years for house building, immigration and availability of finance.

Young people trying to get into their first home took advantage recently of a boosted First home owners grant which when it first came out could be the total deposit for the purchase of an owner occupied first home.

That is not the case now, and even as the boost to the grant was cut down to half and then no boost at all numbers of applicants were becoming lower as house prices spiralled upwards and out of the reach of those young buyers due to inability to service the higher loan amount as well as lenders getting twitchy and mortgage insurers almost point blank refusing to guarantee more than 95% of the loan amount (in traditional loan scenarios)

Funny though, sales have been doing OK and they seem to be pushing auctions and there are usually some phone bidders pushing the prices up until local interest wains, . . . .so what's going on?


Today, a very small news item has appeared, and I recalled reading a while ago that China's richest woman has made her wealth from (apart from the inherited money from her father; millions) by buying up as much property as she possibly can and then reselling it at a marked profit.

Beijing city limits home buyers to one new apartment

THE city of Beijing has issued rules limiting families to one new apartment purchase as authorities try to rein in rampant property speculation and soaring prices, China's state media reported today.
The order by the capital's authority is the latest in a series of moves it has taken as it tries to reduce the risk of the red-hot real estate market overheating and derailing the booming economy

Ok I know this blog has ended up being a bit of a mixed bag, but I wanted to make a point that while we are constantly being told that our interest rates need to go much higher to control spending which increases inflation, what seems to have happened is that it has revealed our market to a buyer who can access money at a far cheaper interest rate that we can.

Further, if buyers in other countries cannot get property in their own country, they will quite probably look elsewhere, you can never have enough money , can you?


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The future for Logan, . . it's bad bad news for the old North Beaudesert.

I was shocked and dismayed to see the front page of a Local free paper telling me the future is here, stunned in fact because the cartoon adorning the article shows so many things that many locals have been constantly seeking answers to, as recently as a month or so ago at the information sessions for the Park Ridge Major Development Area information sessions, and have been told that there is no such information available because those things are 20 to 30 years into the future.

Keeping the community in the dark seems to be the MO for Logan and always has, but this time I believe they have gone too far and are now actually deliberately keeping what should be available to the community from them.

Unfortunately the thinkers in Logan all have ideas that are formed in the last century, and I mean in the middle of it. They cannot grasp concepts like limitations on resources, like peak oil, like traffic congestion, like carbon footprint or like sustainability; worse is that they have very good people in the community who know a great deal about the environment at a local level, about flora and fauna and about conservation, saving our river systems and sustainable planning.

Logan's media personalities are of course at it, flat out blowing their own trumpet and telling us how it's going to be with State member telling us about transport hubs we can walk to and commercial areas, industrial areas and improved infrastructure spreading west and south as far as Logan's jurisdiction extends.

We know that Logan was given our area because of the Beaudesert Shire Town Plan which was restrictive of ad hoc development which includes master planned satellite types plonked indiscriminately here and there where no infrastructure or services exist and we know that Logan has always had a develop at any cost mentality with out rules or even consideration of the existing communities wants and needs, let alone the removal of their amenity or the natural surroundings.

John Mickel, the State Representative, typically tells us all he can. it's old school blundering through with promises of new highways, some shops and some jobs way out west with maybe a school or hospital thrown in later. His ideas are in the realm of prehistoric, he doesn't even have the ability to think in the modern world he is just pushing what he knows from when land was plentiful and so was fuel, resources and everything else.We know John has been given a retirement role in the Government where he doesn't affect decision making any more, but he is definitely showing his age in these comments.

To read a report on the net by a councillor was like reading something my grandfather would have said to me when I was a young child, it was obvious that even the younger representatives are either so involved with development or so dependent on old people for their information that they just don't have anything new to say, or even credible in my opinion except to continue the raising of everything in our rural area and the building of more urban sprawl, with a few trinkets like a cinema to keep the new residents happy.

To read that Woodridge will become the next West End is just lunacy, to read (and I wonder what the West End residents would like to say about it) that a few years ago you wouldn't want to live in West End is crazy, the area has been highly sought after for more than 30 years by those in the know and for at least 20 years it has been one of the best examples of owners remaining to redevelop their own property and new owners rebuilding and renovating in the same style to maintain the character of the area which boasts high density urban development with units and medium rise spread across the area and with commercial and industrial areas remaining despite land costs. The Councillor's opinion is typically politically motivated and should be dismissed as irrelevant, uneducated and inconsistent with the environment, the community and the wants and needs of the general community.

Then we come to Mr. "Opinion for Hire" Bernard Salt, who appears with a 20 year old picture of himself, and calls rural land owners "hermits" unless they agree with his demographics which we have seen can be manipulated to suit any who wish to pay the man to get the results they want, that is the man who can provide figures that say interest rates are low, that population growth is wanted by the majority and that despite us having our own opinion, we are wrong to have it. He goes on to say , and it's in the same old fashioned realm as the two previous mentioned, that we are to develop on a model that was used to develop Canberra, yep you know when that was built don't you.

Canberra, by the way , has to be one of the most boring cities anywhere in the world, it is flat. wide spread urban sprawl with indistinguishable streets with similar homes and landscaping and nothing really that stands out at all and it's probably on the the easiest places to get lost in and the hardest to get around and find you r way because nothing is recognisable as different, it's depressing.

Bernard Salt wants to insult those who oppose becoming Australia's second Canberra, and tells us we should go to Toowoomba to escape, but what he really means is shut up stop trying to put logical reasons and good knowledge up in opposition to stupid, old fashioned planning, and just go away , somewhere , anywhere, you're hermits , don't bother us, who will be making a hell of a lot of money out of this all.

Please have your say, don't let these few lowbrow, little Hitlers, who want to be your dictators tell you to shut up and leave, you have a rights, get together with locals put up some good arguments and protect your rural investment, your amenity and our local flora and fauna from these idiots.


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Did the Police orchistrate the "HIT" on carl Williams ?

Consider a territory was where one of the gangs is sanctioned by the government, one gang has been known to run drugs, launder cash, beat people, and go even further with the sanctioning by having power over all citizens without having another body to limit their activities or even keep the bastards honest.

Such a gang does exist, it was virtually called that, a gang, in the documents from the Fitzgerald enquiry into corruption, many years ago; that gang is called "the police"

Gangs often have turf wars and often they get it wrong and an innocent gets in the way and a tragedy occurs, often its just a series of eye for an eye killings from two rival gangs that make headlines, and the media just loves it because it sells.

The arrest of Carl Williams took a long time, a lot of investigation, and at the end of the day, someone to grass him it seems, because the police are really either not up to actually catching criminals, or just can't be bothered most of the time and rely really on unequivocal evidence from someone to get the job done.

Carl Williams used body guards when he was a free man, they went everywhere with him, he knew he was a target and a big one, so once arrested he was kept in maximum security, for his own protection and further his accompanying inmates were screened very carefully .

But why was he being treated so specially, and so well in prison?

Well a spokesperson, one would have to guess from the police, leaked to the press that they(the police) were paying Carl William's child's school fees, and a considerable amount to his ex wife and to him possibly as well.

That was Sunday.

With the news that Carl was getting money from the cops hitting the newspapers, within a day he was dead, and the rumours were that he had done a deal, assumed that he was inside for the rest of his life, and wanted to look after his kin and was giving information to the police in exchange for cash.

Now the police have been in the crime business for a while, and you'd reasonably expect them to know that the eventuating or releasing information to the press that someone was assisting them with names would be lethal to that person, no doubt about that.

Further consider that Carl had no more names to give, or that his price had become too high, or that he was thinking the risk of giving more information was becoming too high, whatever; or even that the police just didn't want to pay any more money.

It's simple to use the system you're in, the criminal system or the underworld as they call it, to do the job you can't be seen doing, and that is to remove the problem, that way you don't have to deal with it.

So it's a big question, but a reasonable one, the police must have known that by releasing details of financial dealings with an inmate would lead to further consequences, or in underworld terms, a HIT.



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The Biggest backflip, sheer desperation.

As Bligh's popularity plummets to depths not seen since the end of the Joh era, it seem there is, in her mind, one safety rope still dangling down to her from the edge of the abyss, Daylight savings.

So with the kind of backflip you'd expect from someone with far longer legs, she has donned the athletics gear and announced a referendum on daylight savings in a couple of time zones and wants the public to discuss it at length and form their own opinions about it.

You see, Daylight savings has seemed popular in the city area of South east Queensland where Labor has always got nearly all of its seats, and it's now become a bandwagon that a desperate Bligh cannot resist just one quick ride on.

Of course there are skeptics out there who would say the very idea of putting forward an idea that you have previously and often dismissed outright as never going to happen is now there to hide things like the failings in the health care of Queensland and of course the fire sale of almost every income producing asset owned by the people of Queensland without their consent.

And I have to say it appears to be working too, with everyone either supporting or denouncing the idea, and vigorously too.

I honestly don't believe industry and retail who claim they are missing out on millions by being out of sync with the southern states, if it is that critical that you align your business to the times used interstate then that's what you do, you don't need to change your clock to do it either, if it's that important you just get up an hour earlier and get it done.

To those who impassioned that they will utilise the extra hour of evening to go to the beach etc, you can do it now, except you just start and hour earlier (beating the traffic) and knock off an hour earlier (again beating the traffic) and do it.
My guess though is that if you need everyone else to have to change times because you're too lazy to start and finish an hour earlier then you're probably too lazy to even get off the couch and go anyway.

The ones I feel sorry for are those who start early already, and those with young kids. Th ones who start very early and work outdoors actually benefit from an extra hour early in the day with less direct overhead sun, but they probably can't get to sleep early enough because it's still light and hot. Similarly those with kids, it's hell, and I've been there.

At the end of the day this is just a smokescreen, designed to get a sector of the community, lets call them the lazy selfish ones, to think she's actually going to do this for them and not for her own salvation.

WWF . . . what the hell are they thinking?

The blundering and loose lipped buffoon voted into a safe seat due mainly to a high profile 80's singing career even after stating on a national high rated TV current affairs type show that he'd never keep any of the promises made before the election after Labor wins it, has been given another award he does not in my opinion, deserve.

FEDERAL Environment Protection Minister Peter Garrett has received an award for his "life's passion and work" from international environment group World Wildlife Fund with WWF Australia chief executive Greg Bourne saying Mr Garrett received the Leaders for a Living Planet award for his environmental work both before he entered politics and since he became a minister.

Good lord, are the WWF mad?

Did they just give an environment award to the man who approved a pulp mill, known to be of the worst type of polluters in existence, for one of Tasmania's pristine areas and which it seems will allow the harvest of old growth trees until plantation timber is of useful size.

And did they just give this award to the man who approved the pressurised pumping of acid down bore holes into uranium deposits to dissolve the radioactive mineral which can then be pumped to the surface and harvested, meanwhile acid and radioactive material has the potential to pollute the fragile water table of South Australia

And did they just give this award because Garrett has allowed use of his name and profile to other environmental groups (including WWF)

yes to all the above.

This is a real slap in the face to real fair dinkum hard working hands on conservationists who are working hard with very limited or self generated resources to achieve some very good results.

This pathetic award almost seems to be out of step with the expectations of those who donate to WWF either time or money and worse seems to make environmental activity seem pointless if awards and recognition are given to those who cause more environmental damage then the real environmentalists can put back.

We'll never fix the forests in Tasmania and well never fix the water table in South Australia, not in a million years.

I can only assume this is a politically motivated award since it's not too long until the election and Labor are not doing too well and they probably want to assure the Minister for " Batts are burning" doesn't get the boot and have to reform Midnight "foil"


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Why become a federal politician, a million good reasons.

We all sit back and wonder why someone who seems to "hate" so much, seems to be using position and influence to hurt community and seems to be so unhappy with themselves that they are resorting to any and all means to alter themselves.

I'm not going into "haters" in this story, or community bullying and manipulation and certainly not even touching enhancement or removal of ones own self, at all, because even with all of that which you'd probably love to hear about, there are a million other reasons to become a federal politician, all of them . . . . Dollars.

Yep it's all about greed. cutting the BS and the glib lies about serving the community, it's about filling the back pocket, end of story.

In an article, the local paper reveals:

THE cost of a keeping a single federal MP has become a million-dollar a year burden to taxpayers - the same price as a luxury Lamborghini supercar.
The average salary of MPs is now $180,000 a year, but the real cost is more than five times that - with a string of entitlements totalling $721,000 and a further $164,000 a year spent keeping tabs on the cost.

Entitlements federal politicians receive include airfares, chauffeur-driven vehicles, travel allowances, ministerial salary top-ups, electricity and electorate office rentals.

The politicians' entitlements have become so complex that 315 bureaucrats are now employed fulltime in the Department of Finance to make sure the country's 226 federal MPs are properly paid and equipped. This includes paying 1700 political staffers - nearly eight staff for each MP - costing taxpayers $99,000 each on average, or another $169 million, according to the Department of Finance.

They haven't even included the sumptuous surroundings in which federal MP's work or the catering, drinks, etc. or the provision of tools, electronics , software, publicity, and you can easily double the figure the get if you add these on.

There is a proposal to do away with some of the allowances because of the cost of monitoring the claims for them, (it seems that many politicians claim everything, and then just take what they can get away with, rather than only claim for what they do, so monitoring and checking needs to be done to keep the system honest and the checking costs a hell of a lot of money in itself. The replacement idea is to just give the pollies a lump sum and let then go buy a couple of investment homes with it, oops I mean use it in the way they best deem it needs to be spent, cut out the monitoring and save the taxpayer some big dollars.

But really, is this just pandering to the greed even more, I think so. Personally I think they should be punished severely if they claim something they're not entitled to, sacked perhaps, I mean they should set an example, we pay a lot of tax to keep them don't we?

So it turns out that all the pontification about helping the public, representing the community, and sacrificing for public life is a crock of shit, they're In it for the money and it's big big money. no wonder they are willing to take people to court with any and every allegation, to keep the hand in the public purse.


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The Reserve Bank , . . . again.

The last blog about the Reserve didn't seem to enthuse you much, but I'm just so annoyed at the arbitrary way we are treated, and how they make decisions which cannot be based on the reasons they tell us they are based on.

It is predicted that interest rates for Reserve Bank money will increase by another 25 basis points (a quarter of a percent) as a result of Tuesdays monthly meeting, and I feel , going on what I'm reading in the press that that is going to be the case.

The reasoning has been given that the housing market is beginning to grow and sales are yielding greatly increased prices and auction clearances are improving.

Bullshit!

Mr Glenn Stevens, has been in the press making statements in the last few days that are worrying to say the least, to me they reveal an agenda to exclude ordinary Australians from the housing market by allowing either prices to rise above affordability or interest rates to become unserviceable on basic wages and salaries.

A look at Auctions will tell anyone who's keen on property investment that the majority of lower and mid range properties have a plethora of phone bidders from overseas and many foreign buyers in the actual crowd and in the last 3 months those I've attended have in the majority been sold to a foreign buyer, this is backed up be recent reports by the real estate institute, and reports on network TV current affairs programs.

OK, so if it is the case that foreign investors are still buying, and bidding against each other, with easy to obtain, low interest overseas money, and driving the prices up in doing so, how can raising the local home loan rate do anything but keep Aussies out of the market?

Has the Reserve, Mr Stevens, or any of the board really, looked at the retail sector trend as opposed to credit card debt, to bank sector figures of debt repayment directly from credit cards, I think not.

Mr Stevens, it seems, is so out of touch, so insulated from what it's like to be a battler, and so engaged in doing the work of the government agenda he follows, that he doesn't care how many Aussie battlers have to give up their home, struggle to keep them , or even go without to do so, he doesn't give a tinkers cuss, after all he manages his mortgage pretty well on his million dollar salary.

Mr Stevens, it seems to me that you need to be sacked and replaced by someone who has Australia's interests at heart, by someone who is not a traitor (as I believe personally that you are) and by someone who can work out that if the community of Australians are forced out of home ownership and into renting from rich overseas investors, then by your own workings out, interest will continue to rise as they all have to furnish rental houses most likely on credit, but with significant increases to the retail sector, another one of your lame triggers for increasing rates.

It's time we had the reserve work for the good of the public, it's time our banks actually worked for the money they make in the billions, it's time our rates matched the rest of the world, and Aussie property was available to Aussies and affordable to them without the banks bleeding you dry to own it.

Sorry Mr Glenn Stevens, but in my opinion you are a traitor and a fool.

Pariah's on the reserve bank board.

The battlers on the lower pay scales have recently got a pay rise, quite a small one too, most in their own EBA's gained about $20 a week, not much is it considering how everything seems to be going up.

What does sickens me is how out of touch these big shots at the Reserve Bank seem to be because within a week or two of getting this latest pay rise the Reserve lifts the cash rate by a quarter of a percent, effectively ripping your pay rise right out of your hand and gifting it to themselves for fat bonuses.

I know well the theory of monetary policy and I'm old enough to have seen the worst uncontrolled examples of monetary policy applied defensively and the damage it can do to the general wage earner.

I also know that in real terms monetary policy is the only tool they have in their arsenal to control inflation and keep the current account from blowing out in huge proportions.

However, it seems to me that they have erred in their calculations of how growth indicators are performing due to manipulation of statistics and data to show real growth where stability is really what's occurring, particularly in the building sector where growth does not appear to be happening if you count slabs on ground but growth has occurred if you count new loan applications due to people who own their property having to refinance to put personal money into their businesses, or renovate rather than buy new.

the reading of the data can be interpreted either way, it's guess work when you're up at lofty peaks in your tower looking down on the workers and saying Let them eat cake, isn't it.

Reds are under the bed, ok.

Australia's most prominent political "ranga" has come up with a scheme ( is that how you spell scam )which she is trying to sell as a device to protect the identity and privacy of those being educated in Australia by issuing them an identification number so they can access a government website to see how they're going.

And I suppose if school children are slower at walking, at noticing large moving objects that might intersect their chosen course, to the point where we've had to reduce the speed limit by up to half outside schools then the chances they are also not able to assess just how they're doing at school.

Our "ranga" is without doubt a communist, and this issuing of a number to replace the identity of our children as far as the government is concerned is straight out big brother stuff and will continue through out their life becoming part of their TFN and then probably carved onto their tombstone.

I'm trying to keep this short, but really is the only answer this government has to any and every situation to bring out a website ? get over it, we don't need it, or want it.

And while we're on the subject, I've never met anyone who was happy to get carted off in an Ambulance to hospital, but now they can see just how their stay is going to pan out before they go by logging onto another government website that rates their hospital and gives information about how many medical accidents have occurred and more.

Now people are stressed out when they go to hospital, they don't need the added stress of knowing that one in a hundred patients with heart problems has a leg amputated by mistake. Not that that event will actually happen, but you get my drift.

People need to log off these government websites in droves, seriously. they are going to turn you into someone you won't like and turn our democracy into a country that is more communist that Russia.