This is literally deadly serious stuff yet it's hardly getting a run, and it's driven by RedTrump's policies big pharmacy gouging the public health systems.
Our PBS keeps the bastards honest, but only as long at it is funded and supported, and to some degree so does Medicare, but it's loudest opponents aren't happy because they see the deregulated US market and think they can be multi-millionaires too given the opportunity.
The best thing Australia could do is go for generics like India, China and soon Africa, it's not about capacity it's about the capability to do so and we have it in spades. Leave the big pharma to gouge the US and Europe.
Not much love for Elijah Hollands in these votes......
He does a lot of the sacrificial stuff that brings those around him into the game, he compliments Cripps and Walsh magnificently because he has the speed and strength to play a disposal beyond the stoppage and not be beaten in the contest. Good user, makes great decisions.
Cerra's penalty downgraded to a fine. Free to play the Crows.
He'd be happy with that, but seriously I'd challenge the fine on principle.
Blokes should not be able to launch themselves at you then claim foul play if they stumble into your block. We saw a stupid suspension in NRL last season, NAS at the Storm got three weeks for basically being 7ft tall. An opponent in the last round basically charged flat out and headbutted NAS in the shoulder.
If this sort of suspension / fine is allowed to persist opposition clubs will use it as a tactic to remove key opponents from the finals. If they are up against a potential future opponent in the last round they can put a spud in to basically be the sacrificial lamb.
Problems only become evident when media choose a side like News Ltd.
The bulk of the "professional reporting" is balanced, but not necessarily apolitical, bloggers should not be confused with reporters.
Social media is largely unaccountable for it's behaviour, and RedTrump along with his acolytes are a danger to global democracy.
What happened to 60 Minutes in the USA, and what The White House did to Bezos today, is a global tragedy, and it does impact our elections. Reporting facts should not get you persecuted by government.
That’s the problem; letting blatant pushes in back go encourages players to tackle incorrectly and that leads to the Curtis tackle and suspension.
The bigger problem is letting coaches have a say in the development of rules, they always drive the debate to suit a loophole or a player that will give them a tactical advantage.
The Scotts are the classic example, the twins always worked at the edge of what was legal, that's how those two fat hobbits managed to curtail some of the AFL's best KPPs!
So Jack Bowes throws a left at Cerra, Cerra fends him off and Bowes turning his body into the fend off goes down like a buttercup, and Cerra gets a week from the MRO. All the action, force and momentum was coming from Bowes, Cerra just stood his ground and defended himself.
Is this the legacy of Michael "Corruptomatic" Christian in full flight?
It's not Cerra's fault Scott has talked a buttercup into thinking he is Mike Tyson!
I really don't think shopping people are the least bit concerned about the individual prices of things like eggs, milk bread etc As a shopper I really don't pay that much attention. What does concern them is what they pay at the checkout... and that's gone up.
That should have been the focus of phrasing the answer to the question, you should run for the top job!
I'm exactly the same as yourself, I only do a bit of food shopping here or there and a couple of times a year I get involved in the bigger shops. I notice the total and can't tell you a single item price even when I've compared prices on the shelf, but I can tell you the total is 30% to 50% higher at the moment than it was this time last year, quantity for quantity. It's a bit deceptive, because a lot of products have changed size, they have the same per item price but the package is smaller, which means the standard unit pricing is higher.
But I can tell you how much a slab of my favourite beer costs, and that has risen about 25%, and as a tinkerer I can tell you the typical price for Bosch, Dewalt, Makita or even Ozito power tools from Bunnings, Total Tools or Sydney Tools. Dutton should have posed that back at the panel as it's important to every tradie, and would expose the ignorance of an egg, milk or bread question.
I find it ironic that a foodie question is posed by some people who I doubt cook even a crumpet!
If you want an example of how far some media outlets will go together discredit or boost Trump, look at the image below. Trump caused some controversy by not rolling up in a black suit with a black tie as requested by the Vatican. If you look around the web you'll find versions of this image edited to make Trump's suit look either black or blue. I don't know why his opponents need to exaggerate the colour but some have, they could just show the real image, however that darker side of this (pun intended) are the media outlets covering up for him by making the suit and/or tie look black.
And no it's not an accident of lighting or printing.
I thought the umps were pretty good. A prime example was the weitering/dangerfield one on one close to goal. Plenty of free kicks could've been played, but the umps let it go. Didn't even fall for the dangerflog flop at the end of it.
Yes, I thought for the bulk of the game they had little influence on the outcome, paid obvious frees when they saw them, a few guesses in the last probably stained an otherwise good game, but they are only human and feel the pressure too.
Given Doc was BoG on the VFL, young Carroll might struggle to hold his spot, he had 5 minutes of shocker that basically destroyed our momentum.
Luckily the senior players stood up when it mattered, the young blokes looked a bit wobbly, but Cripps, Hewett, McGovern, Weiters and Haynes held station. Haynes best game for us by some margin.
EH was enormous 2nd week back, boy we've missed him and Big H, EH is so calm in the heat and BigH was back to contested marking best. Hewett, EH, OH, Cerra all above 80% DE which is exceptional for blokes running through the midfield.
You can't really negotiate with a NPD and Zelenskyy has two to contend with.
The trick is to not negotiate at all.
The best way to deal with such personalities is to simply say "I'll think about it" and never offer an answer, or simply stall the debate never being definitive in a response, always be unambiguously grey in your response, so that the NPD remains confused and unclear about the outcome of any discussion.
For example publicly Trump gets around this in the short term by blatantly lying about people coming to "negotiate with him", but in the background he'll be confused and full of doubt, he doesn't know what to do because he hasn't an answer the deal with, he becomes a victim of his own paranoia as NPDs are full of paranoia.
