Carlton Supporters Club

Quote from: ElwoodBlues1 – on April 20, 2026, 01:27:57 pm

Chalmers buying votes by allowing workers to claim $1,000 in deductions without any receipts needed. Labor just cant stop spending and adding to inflation and high debt levels.

True, but clinging onto that stuff when it's really just a drop in the ocean excuses the absence of any real opposition.

Economies work on 3 or even 4 orders of magnitude higher as the bare minimum.

A $1000 sounds great to those struggling, but it's not even covering the fuel rises for the average worker.

Is it true the left are genuinely calling for that security guard to sacked, the guard who defended himself and the public from the smartar5e bottle throwing shoplifter?

Do the do-gooders really think the relative size matters when a youth could just as easily held a knife or machete? Do they expect the guards to find out the answer to that question before neutralising the situation?

One of the areas I visit have taken to employing athletic giants as checkout security. Male and female, Amazons, Africans, all well over 190cm, physically impressive, imposing, one of the girls looks like a 195cm African Brook Shields, and they are not afraid of apprehending kids and they are actually capable of apprehending the kids as opposed to the older style discount security. I got to talking to them and they tell me at first they only hired men, but the crooks stated sending teenage girls in the lift mechanise, so now they employ both male and female guards. They said the kids aren't too bright, often rolling up to the stores in oversized puffer jackets on 34°C days!

I hope the authorities look after the security for just doing their job, and yes I think they should be able to use reasonable force to defend themselves, protect the public and uphold the law.

Whatever happened to you f..k around you find out?

not to allow violence or anything, but you know, if a kid cops it from a security guard, once upon a time, my parents would turn to me, and ask what did you do?  If they deemed it unreasonable, I copped punishment from them on top of what they would have copped from the authorities/powers that be.

Geez, a lot of oldies getting cut up by the taxes changes, I don't understand it.

I don't understand why where I live I'm surrounded by properties kept vacant by retirees / semi-retired who own them as investments or holiday homes and refuse to rent them out. I don't get why they can't be put to use at least as rentals. Few even seem to have kids who visit the place.

I don't get why they want them when all they seem to do is roll up on weekends and spend 2 days cleaning and gardening only to feck off Sunday night back to their city apartment. And if they don't roll up they are paying some local gardener or handyman to do it for them.

When they do arrive down for the weekend, they spend 48hrs moaning that the local region has no amenities, it's the council's fault apparently, because the shops, cafes and restaurants can't survive on their weekly 48 hrs of patronage. Some of them don't even bring the patronage, they roll up with supplies brought with them from the weekday local favourites, and they still complain.

They complain about council plans to bring in parking fees, abhorrent, apparently owning the property means they have the right to park the Tesla freely wherever they like, after driving down the freeway without paying a cent towards the upkeep of the roads. Don't mention the fact that when they return they probably park in a spot leased of Wilson Parking, which the probably sub-let at weekends to the footy or cricket crowd.

All of this to save some tax, in fact anything to save some tax it seems, at least they'll die wealthy though!

It's a financial win but an existence loss, they might as well sell the property and get back the 28% of their time that they have lost, 28% of your life seems a cheap buy at the tax rate!