A very curious thing is happening in the parliament today. The Social Services Legislation Amendment Bill is set to be waved through the House with the support of the Labor opposition. From there it will go to the Senate and quickly become law.
Hooray! The system works. Well, sometimes.
In truth the bill is a grab bag of amendments for old age pensioners, armed service veterans and retirees, many of whom will receive a one off payment for their energy bills ($75 for singles, $150 for couples) while some 95,000 self-funded retirees who lost their part pensions at the beginning of the year will have their pension cards returned to them to assist in the payment of medical bills, pharmaceuticals, council rates and transport costs.
The energy assistance payment was negotiated between the government and Senator Nick Xenophon in order to ensure the Xenophon Team’s support for the government’s tax cuts to business.
Full column here.
C’mon Aussie, Big John Hastings back in , Moises Henriques, Starc, Cummins, Hazelwood now we are talking. It’s on against the Kiwis
The armchair selector has spoken!
TBLS earlier raised the problems of reading the Aus online, and there certainly are some glitches.
Totally sober, I just tried to read the article about the near disasterous Sydney freeway scenarios when a school,bus pulled out in front of a semi.
All I got was a message “bad request. Bad header or cookie requires too much space”. I’ve never seen that before, just timeouts and repetitive reloads. You can pass that one on to the boffins JTI.
Remaining football típs please. I’d love some sugar.