While you’re not wrong, Long and Scoyler didn’t exactly pioneer their research into Melanoma’s last year, they’ve been doing so continuously for the past few decades. Last year Mabil won the award for Young Australian of the year, but I dare say it’s not just because he’s a decent footballer, it’s also the fact that he started his own charity
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I am just disappointed that once again I was not awarded Australian of the Year.
It hurts just as much as the consistent Gold Logie snubs.
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It’s not too late to qualify for Paris 2024
Is there an award for documenting horse troughs?
I do love me a good Bills that’s for sure.
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Remember this
Not sure if the social media back-lash directed at this couple has them regretting their decision to make a comment or the Telecrap did something wrong.
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I would say that’s too much, but obviously pretty subjective.
I think this is more my point. He is excelling in one field, and using his spare time to benefit the community.
Obviously Australia values sports pretty highly. Compared the current doctors are potentially risking their own health to have a real crack at the first advancement in treating brain cancer in who knows how long.
I guess I would like to see it awarded to someone who has really benefitted the community. Like Blue sky said, someone doing great things but not really getting recognition elsewhere. Thought Tame, Batty, Alcott all were more deserving in their efforts to make Australia better, but maybe that’s not the criteria.
How did they get so many quotes and the photos with their permission? Unless it was an off the record conversation with a friend journalist, and they pulled the photo off Facebook…
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I’m curious too, not like it was some A Current Affair kick down the door expose. I think there was regret because they looked like horrible people whinging about things when other people have it a lot worse than them.
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Combined household income of $440000 and they talk to a tabloid? Proof that money doesn’t mean smart.
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If anyone has seen a bigger image, or the paper itself (ew), the photo will have facebook on it if that is where they took it from. If it doesn’t have anything, they will have given it to them or had the photo taken.
Either way, if a journalist asks you questions for a story they are writing, you should know anything you say will be used.
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Being ignorant of your own wealth is a common Australian trait. We’re so far removed from the rest of the world that we dont know how it works. 195 countries in the world yet there would only be 10 that share the lifestyle of ours.
Everyone here is rich. if you’ve never spent a month in the north of Ethiopia or the Bolivian cordilleras, you could find yourself in the opinion that you’re doing it the toughest on the planet. It’s just a matter of how rich you are in Australia and how humble you are about it.
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It’s attributed to a person, who appears to be a News photographer.
Very strange you’d allow a news photographer to take your image if you didn’t want them to use it or be quoted in an article.
Two newspaper conspiracies in the same week, we are on a roll SFCU!
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Agree with that, but they way in which a journalist asks the question can also influence your answers. For all we know, the first question asked was “what do you think about the Government’s flip on the tax cuts” and the second question was “how have the recent cost of living increases affected your life?” Two questions that you can directly quote and join to make it seem like they’re talking only about the tax cuts.
It’s telling though that the telly took it down. Shows potential culpibility.
Could also interpret that as job done for them, as the mouthbreathers will already be screaming about it on social media.
Yeah the larger clip shows that.
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Odds on she’s friends with a journo there (they always are for these kind of article) and is unhappy with how it’s panned out.
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Far better than the original plan no doubt. At least more of it’s going where it’s actually needed and will be used. Tax cuts to save business paying the wages they should doesn’t sit right though. I do think that in a few years we’ll be regretting the lost taxes and opportunities that it could have been used on.
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This is a case of lies, damn lies and statistics.
This graph makes it look like everyone earning a principal’s wage will be better off, whereas it’s saying those on the Median wage for that career will be. There will be those earning more as well as those earning less.
That’s not to mention that the sum total of people’s income isn’t from their job, and that skews higher the further up the income scale you go.
If you want to sell these changes, don’t sell them as some sort of mystified technocratic measure that doesn’t actually impact anyone. Australians are in favour of progressive tax policy.
It refers to taxable income not salary which would include interest and income from non salary sources.