MissFixItOrElse wrote on Jun 30^th, 2012 at 1:54am:



adelcrow wrote on Jul 1^st, 2012 at 3:48pm:


Ahh so someone is awake!

Now you know why I called Matty up on his "incomperent" stance.

Frances wrote on Jul 1^st, 2012 at 10:01pm:


No, we're still here. Matty wanted me to check whether flights to New Zealand have a carbon tax. No one at Jetstar could tell me - they just said the taxes are included in the all-in fare price, but they don't break all the different taxes down.

I could have just told Matty it's carbon tax free, but he'd get really difficult if he listened to Alan and found out we'd paid the carbon tax. You've no idea how he can get sometimes.

I said we should just put it on expenses, but then he started carrying on about Craig Thomson and how he's above all that, and to cut a long story short, I'm going to have to pay for my own fare.

Can you believe it? I've got a good mind not to go, but that could be what he wants and I'll be damned if I'm going to let him go over there with all those cute Maoris and have a good time while I'm over here working on the campaign.

Does anyone know if they put a carbon tax on flights to New Zealand?

They've got a sale on now, so I need to get in quick.

I wish.

I thought NZ already had a carbon tax? $15 a tonne?

SOB

Sir Spot of Borg wrote on Jul 2^nd, 2012 at 4:44am:


True, SOB, but Matty doesn't want to pay a tax "borne of a lying, barren woman" - I think he got that off Alan. He says he doesn't want to pay a tax that has Juliar as its mother.

It's complicated, but Matty feels dirty paying a Labor tax. He said he feels his social contract has been breeched. He doesn't want to be infected by "this sickness in the nation's body politic."

Matty, you see, is studying medical science, not law. Mind you, he's going to have to defer while we're in New Zealand.

Another thing to do.

Yes, all confirmed now. I'm leaving on Saturday. My parents own a home in NZ, so i'll be living there, and my father's given me a couple of hundred thousand. I'll be deferring my studies and just taking a break. I won't be posting here, giving politics a bit of a miss too. But I'll be back in a year's time with a vengewnce, and my return will be thunderous.

matty wrote on Jul 4^th, 2012 at 8:36pm:


Matty, we won't need two hundred thousand if we just go with the boat option.

I know the carbon tax has raised transport prices, but let's save the money and go with the cheaper option.

matty wrote on Jul 4^th, 2012 at 8:36pm:


Good!
Bye!

Cents?
If its any more, your father may be in need, of a shrink?