TEN THOUSAND households had their power disconnected in just the second half of 2025 in NSW alone because they could not pay their power bill.

10 thousand. In half a year. Just in NSW.

WT actual F?

Bobby. wrote on Apr 29^th, 2026 at 12:19am:



Australia has no resources, Blooby.


So why are you complaining other than your white male privilege?

Marla wrote on Apr 29^th, 2026 at 1:42am:



Marla,
you are the result of a piss poor education system in the USA:





  This Frank Zappa interview proves he was right all along.

   Schools train people to be ignorant with style.

    They give you the equipment that you need to be a functional ignoramus.

   American schools do not equip you to deal with things like logic. They don't give you the criteria by which to judge

between good and bad in any medium or format.

    and they prepare you to be a usable victim for a military-industrial complex that needs manpower. As long as you're

   just smart enough to do a job and just dumb enough to swallow what they feed you, you're going to be all right.

    Many young people today walk around like they've been lobbomized with a colored crayon. Just turn the clock back to 1981 and listen to Frank Zappa lay it out

    plain and simple. So I believe that [music] schools mechanically and very specifically try and breed out any hint

   of creative thought and the kids that are coming up.

Captain Nemo wrote on Apr 29^th, 2026 at 10:22am:



I am not sure why Ministers determine price rises in sectors like Electricity and Health Funds.      Health in particular seems to go up well over the CPI or what ever is the benchmark.     To his credit though, at least it is out there and we know about it, rather than hiding it to try and win an election.

"The former energy minister Angus Taylor asked his department to consider delaying telling voters about electricity price rises before the May election, then made the decision to do so.”

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/feb/10/angus-taylor-behind-decis...

lee wrote on Apr 29^th, 2026 at 2:25pm:



Take it in context Mr Lee - you can’t just selectively post snippets of a conversation, when that conversation is a reply to another poster.   Back to Staff College for you!

lee wrote on Apr 29^th, 2026 at 5:41pm:



The original post was about Bowen approving a rise.
My reply was to the effect of at least we know about it.

Angus  wasn’t going to release it - in fact he decided to hide it from the public because of the upcoming election - even when the original legislation required it to be released in May.   Contrary to your reply as above, he didn't even get to release it at all because he got the boot, so around 1/3 of your reply gets marked today.

In other news it looks like DFRDB will rise another 2.4 - 2.6% in July

lee wrote on Apr 29^th, 2026 at 6:14pm:


And poor struggling pensioners get stuff all even though they are on poverty money.