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Reply #2670 –
Quote from: ElwoodBlues1 – on
Good in theory but Gina, Bruce,Clive and co wont be paying any extra, they never do, middle Australia will pick up the tab and everyone will have to pay more for health insurance when the over 65's start dropping out of private insurance after losing the rebate and driving the costs up.
Under these rules I believe it's going to come out of the inheritance unless they willfully divest themselves of property prior to death, and that's not going to happen.

So you are right, they won't pay while they are alive but the tax will still be paid.
"Extremists on either side will always meet in the Middle!"

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Reply #2671 –
Righto brains trust, does anyone know how to contact Uber/Uber Eats to discuss a traffic accident with one of their delivery riders? My daughter was travelling home from work on Friday night and got hit by one when he decided to cut in front of her and go right from the bike lane as she was turning left into a main road on a green arrow. She has a witness who saw it all but thats not the issue. The guy only gave a name, address phone number when my daughter called the police when he initially refused and they instructed him to exchange details whilst on speaker phone.
These menace on our roads have no id on them, no identification plates on their e-bikes and they get away with doing damage.
She called me as she was frightened and I rushed there as they were exchanging numbers.
Surely they are employed by Uber as either casuals or contractors, they must give details of their employer. Surely they are covered by insurance by Uber?
We have looked online on how to contact them, good luck with that. Can anyone offer any tips?
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Reply #2672 –
Regarding the discussion in the Formula 1 thread on charity, donating etc, Peter Singer in 1972 wrote a paper entitled "Famine, Affluence and Morality." It is by now both famous and very influential, and is considered a landmark in the field of Applied Ethics. Easy to read, and difficult to refute.

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Reply #2673 –
Thanks Paul - a good read.  I could only really find pdfs, so can't link - just do a search.

Essentially,  "if it is in our power to prevent something bad from happening, without thereby sacrificing anything of comparable moral importance, we ought, morally, to do it."  He uses the 1970s Bengal Famine as an example.

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Reply #2674 –
Quote from: dodge – on
Thanks Paul - a good read.  I could only really find pdfs, so can't link - just do a search.

Essentially,  "if it is in our power to prevent something bad from happening, without thereby sacrificing anything of comparable moral importance, we ought, morally, to do it."  He uses the 1970s Bengal Famine as an example.

A couple of links, one from the University Of Maryland, and one from the University Of Colorado.

https://terpconnect.umd.edu/~dcrocker/Courses/Docs/Singer-Famine%20Affluence%20Morality.pdf

https://rintintin.colorado.edu/~vancecd/phil308/Singer2.pdf

It's pretty hard to find anything wrong with his argument IMO.


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Reply #2675 –
You're right, but it gets tricky with many things requiring continuous help or concurrent singular events requiring a decision (eg fires in Vic v floods in Qld) as to which one person's limited funds can go to - am I better off giving $100 to one or $50 to two?

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Reply #2676 –
I can't say I'm a big fan of Matthew Guy, the bloke lacks something, but if that circulated clip is the alleged "assault" on Moira Deeming, then her credibility is also shot! Opportunity knocks.

Also, the Victorian Liberal Party. It's either mind numbingly stupid or ridiculously toxic, maybe both. Because at a bare minimum this appears to be acting in bad faith on several fronts, about as bad as it gets!
"Extremists on either side will always meet in the Middle!"

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Reply #2677 –
Quote from: LP – on
I can't say I'm a big fan of Matthew Guy, the bloke lacks something, but if that circulated clip is the alleged "assault" on Moira Deeming, then her credibility is also shot! Opportunity knocks.

Also, the Victorian Liberal Party. It's either mind numbingly stupid or ridiculously toxic, maybe both. Because at a bare minimum this appears to be acting in bad faith on several fronts, about as bad as it gets!

If that's the incident, Guy is just leaning in and drawing her towards him to make a private remark.  The other images of the event seem to show Guy and Deeming getting on like a house on fire  ::)
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Reply #2678 –
Well, VicPol has finished its investigation; no offence was committed!

Guy is threatening to sue Deeming, and Wilson is waffling about a Liberal Party investigation; a classic clusterfeck!

All they had to do is keep their heads down 🙄
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Reply #2679 –
 Can't vote for Labour, can't vote for these f wits.... doesn't leave much does it?
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Reply #2680 –
One Nation all the way. Drain the swamp.
2012 HAPPENED!!!!!!!

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Reply #2681 –
You don't use crocodiles to drain a swamp.

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Reply #2682 –
If the Ginger Whinger gets into power, she can simply invoke Robert Askin's famous quip when he seized power in NSW in May 1965 : "We're in the tart shop now boys."

Grifters gonna grift......

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Reply #2683 –
Currently the Vic State House of Reps is:
56 ALP - 34 held by <10%
29 - Coalition - 20 LP/9 Nats - 23<10%
3 Greens - 1<10%
1 Independent

There are currently 17 sitting members not re-contesting.

There is one endorsed candidate for One Nation (didn't win the Nepean By-election).  As State and Federal governments have different responsibilities (eg education, health, state levies/taxes, transport), different policies are required.

I have had a quick look at the health policy.  It states that there could be a 100k nurse shortfall in Australia by 2025! and 123k by 2030, then goes to talk about a few strategies for Victoria.  It doesn't say what the Vic nursing shortfall is likely to be - so doesn't address the Vic issue.  Does bring up an interesting question, though as it talks about having discussions between Vic ON and Unis to make nursing a more attractive degree - as the funding is federal for Unis, does this type of conversation happen a lot?

A read of the education policy is a bit scary.

No preventative measures for tackling crime.

From the "Looking after our environment" policy:
protecting iconic native flora like koalas from the expansion of wind and solar farms.

As the ON leader doesn't know what the monoculture policy is - last I saw she answered a question on it by saying 'Howard and Abbott didn't think that multiculturalism works"

There is not a lot out there to attract a vote!

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Reply #2684 –
Quote from: madbluboy – on
One Nation all the way. Drain the swamp.
Voting for them isn't draining the swamp, a vote for One Nation floods the swamp with sh1t!
"Extremists on either side will always meet in the Middle!"