I REMAIN frustrated by the government’s latest tax attack on superannuation funds. We don’t know what the exact position will be or how it might be altered by the government’s negotiations in order to get it through the Senate, as already the Greens are trying to increase the tax levy in order for it to […]
DEAR News of the Area, I dispute John Blackbourn’s opinion piece entitled “Super stabbing”. He argues that the proposed plan to increase taxes on superannuation balances of over $3,000,000 is “an attack on poor old retirees” and that these gains are simply the result of inflation. According to the Association for Superannuation Funds Australia, in […]
THE Labor government is progressing a plan to increase tax on superannuation balances over $3 million – but is it fair? The government’s mounting issue is the massive amount of debt it and previous governments have racked up in past years. This number is only projected to increase substantially over the next ten budgets. As […]
DEAR Jasminda, It’s Normine B again. It was so much worse than you imagined. As my brother in law was ripping down the driveway, he knocked over my prize geraniums, breaking the pot and my heart while he was at it. The dog thankfully came away unscathed, but the cat wasn’t so lucky. He now […]
DEAR News Of The Area, I WRITE this during National Reconciliation Week. This is the anniversary of the 1967 Referendum which finally recognised the First Peoples who have lived here for millennia and meant that they were included in the National Census as people and permitted to vote. It is also the reminder of Mabo. […]
DEAR News Of The Area, MS Sandra Bourke (Letters, NOTA, 15 May) sees a letter from Justin Page, spokesperson for Hunter Jobs Alliance in the previous issue as an attempt to silence the powerful and well-funded organisation Advance Australia for which she is the spokesperson. Both organisations have the right to use every legal means […]
DEAR Jasminda, MY new girlfriend sleeps with her dog (Brutus) in the bed. I really like her, but I find this behaviour bizarre and, frankly, a relationship breaker. How do I navigate this? Gerard P. Dear Gerard, The early phase of a relationship is often marked by constant affection, but this should not include waking […]
NOSTALGIA reigns this week with the release of Karate Kid: Legends. Following the unexpected success of the legacy television (or “streaming”) series Cobra Kai, producers have realised there is a great deal of possibility in this franchise which first came to screens more than 40 years ago. The premise remains familiar: a recently uprooted youth, […]
