Two of my friends lost their jobs recently, both women in their early 60s. No cameras will record their last day at work. They don’t make cars, or wear hard hats. They don’t work in aluminium smelters or fly Qantas …
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Older people know a lot about “living lightly on this earth”. They’ve been there, done that. It’s called being frugal. Before plastic bags, they used paper ones. Before disposable nappies, they used cloth. Before air conditioning went domestic, they’d put …
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How rich is too rich to get a government welfare payment? Would you say a couple who owns their home, has an investment property or shares worth over $1 million, has no children to support, doesn’t work but still has …
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