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Here is a massive Happy Queensland Day to everyone!!!!
It is an even happier Queensland Day, with our Country now having Queenslanders in the jobs of Govenor General, Prime Minister, Federal Treasurer…
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I was pretty fortunate last week to spend a few days in Mackay and the Whitsundays with my eldest sister and a few mates. It seemed I hadn't seen Sharyn since my Big Brother eviction or visited her in the years she has been living in North Queensland, which really made me stop and think, where has the time gone.
Putting guilt aside, we had a great catch up on all things, love, friends, work etc and she showed me an abridged version of life up there, which was awesome, as was meeting a few of her friends.
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We have all been made aware of the Federal Government’s changes to the national budget, health care changes, which will make up to 500,000 young people ditch private health insurance, and almost $1 billion ripped out of regional Australia. Yes, that’s right, the great leap forward that sustainable agriculture made under the previous government has been coathangered, which means no more environment grants like the one my subcatchment group received. So much for a ‘green’ PM. The changes are great and expected, but one that has totally left me reeling is the Government’s 70% increase in taxes on premixed drinks.
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My opposition to a unified non-Labor party has been due to my experiences in other western democracies, whereby the views of the rural minority are totally ignored due to their inability to shift enough seats to matter.
I have held the view that Australia, as a highly urbanised society, has been well supported by the political field of two major parties and a rural based party, which has been able to punch well above its actual ’seats in parliament’ clout, allowing the voices of the cultural heartland, who produce the vast majority of this nation’s food as well as a sizeable amount of the world’s, to be heard and acted upon in the best interest of the entire nation.
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It’s a funny thing living without television and radio, especially when you are living alone and even more so when your cottage is hours from the action.
I logged on this morning to write a post on how things are going here on the farm only to discover that nature has decided to rearrange itself in the form of a massive cyclone in Burma, a monstrous earthquake in China and a billowing volcano in Chile.