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Lucky that Waverley Police Station is pretty much across the road

We managed to avoid it coming up for 4 years! They have offered to talk about it but I don’t think I want that. At the time I obviously had questions about what happened on the beach, but now the details seem unimportant - I know dad was well cared for and that is enough. I am not sure how to...

About six years ago my dad died in a surf accident. I recently was talking to a friend I have made since then, and we worked out that they were the person who pulled him out of the water and gave him CPR. I’m not sure what do do with this information. Obviously I have thanked them profusely and...

Two interviews for new jobs Although they both want me to do take-home assignments (when did that start happening) Knowing me I will spend all weekend working on the assignments and then bomb both interviews

Are you in tech? Devs seem to love starting and finishing late, no idea why. I'd rather get the workday over and done with. To me it doesn't really solve the problem - like, if I took my dogs on the plane that's fine, but what happens when I get wherever I am going? Hardly any hotels allow...

It depends a lot on the field and the justification I think My only real experience of them being commonplace is in finance, where a paid non-compete period is a standard part of quant contracts. You sort of need them there, otherwise the quants would just walk across the street and immediately...

My brother wears Chucks and he is pretty much the complete opposite of me in every way You would get along with him famously

I resisted buying RMs for a long time but any cheaper option I tried (Aquila etc) fell apart in 18 months I am hard on shoes but I haven’t found anything with similar build quality at a lower price point. I get them resoled every couple of years but that is it.

Bought 4 tubes of toothpaste because it was 50% off and then realised that it’s 50% off because it tastes revolting

Paid off the home loan missed the target of “mortgage free in ‘23” but still a huge relief

porque no los dos? www.sydney.com

My wife has been pretty sick and depressed for the last two weeks and has barely left the house I just dragged her out for a quick lunch at our local cafe between meetings - we are sitting at one of the outdoor tables having a quiet sandwich, enjoying the sunshine... and a car drives past and...

I too would sign a petition to put INXS in an iron maiden

People who don't know how to use Slack Them: Hi (five minutes later when I see the message) Me: Hey mate, what's up? (five minutes later when they see the message) Them: I have a question (five minutes later when I see the message) Me: Go for it! (five minutes later when they see the message)...

In average terms, the average Australian worker pays a similar overall rate of tax to the average OECD worker - that hides a lot of complexity however. The tax wedge is the ratio of tax paid by a single worker vs the total cost of employing that worker. It measures the extent to which taxation...

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-15/ken-henry-australias-tax-system-in-worse-position-after-15-years/103465044

the problem is outlined in my previous posts on how taxes break down in Australia vs the rest of the OECD

you are ignoring that it was one part of a bigger tax package stage 3 was specifically about fixing the mess that is the upper bands - reducing the number of tax bands was generally regarded as a good and important move by most tax experts, and stage 1 and 2 were part of setting that up the...

that’s a very deceptive framing of the package that was passed

Because the origin of this discussion was the equitable distribution of legislated tax cuts Improving social services without increasing my tax bill is something I’d also be receptive to, but it would take more fundamental reform to the tax system - see previous posts on diversification of the...

the point is that you are taxing the higher income earner to a level normally seen in a society with a much better social safety net if the person on $100K was being taxed like a Scandinavian then I am sure they would feel equally aggrieved at the level of support they had access to for their...

:rolleyes:

I would be happy to vote for a party who expanded public services if they did it by correcting the balance in the tax base (rather than simply asking the same taxpayers who already pay too much to pay more)

I didn’t say me specifically. One of the benefits I mentioned was public schools and childcare - I don’t have children. I will never benefit from those things personally. But I could access them if I needed them, which is the definition of a social safety net and the whole point of paying tax...

This is entirely reductive and completely misses the point

99% was figurative, no idea what it actually is but would be somewhere in the top few percent the substantive point holds - I have busted my gut, maxed out my career growth and earnings far beyond what most people are lucky enough to do, probably reached close to the ceiling of what is possible...

sure is I killed myself to get to the top of my profession and earn more than 99% of the population, but my wife is terminally ill and can’t work - which thanks to this country’s busted tax laws leaves us worse off than a couple on the average wage (and getting worse every year due to being...

using the promise of third stage tax cuts to pass one and two, then stealing from the third stage so 1 & 2 beneficiaries can double dip - disgraceful bloke is nothing but a thief

If you tell someone the ‘median wage’ devoid of any other context the assumption is usually going to be that you are talking about full time work It’s also a better barometer for these kinds of discussions because most households survive based on one or more full time wages, and how much that...

That includes part timers Median full time wage is more like $80K