Kathi Tait

This is why we have a trillion dollar debt and a budget deficit for the next ten years. The Senate hearing on Monday revealed that McKinsey so far had been paid a total of $1.24m in fees for the modelling of the supply of fuels to Australia. More than $746,000 was for initial work from McKinsey between April 20 and May 9. Following questions from Liberal senator Dave Sharma, the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet’s first assistant secretary for fuel supply taskforce, Janet Quigley, confirmed the government was also paying new co-ordinator Anthea Harris $233,676 for work between March 23 and June 30. The ­contract provides for so-called roll-ons. Let’s that sink in $233,676 for three months work. “That’s basically a million dollars a year annualised, right?” Senator Sharma said. “What was the basis for setting that figure, because it seems, I think, higher than any commonwealth public servant receives in salary, except perhaps the RBA governor. “I agree, it’s a very important challenge … which is why I’m still a little shell-shocked by the amount that’s being paid here. “It just seems extraordinarily high now.” At an annualised $932,000, that would surpass the Prime Minister’s pay of $607,490 per year and the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet secretary’s $897,339, and fall just short of the Reserve Bank governor’s base salary of $987,132. And that folks is why we are drowning in debt and being taxed from the cradle to the grave by Labor.

Steven Bartlett says a few glasses of wine ruined the next 3 days of his life “It's one of those areas where you don't understand the hidden cost until you really give it up for a while. I stopped drinking at 30 years old. I'm now 33. When I was 31, I thought, I'll have a drink again because now I could really A/B test it. I had a year of not drinking, decided to have a drink again” “It ruined three days of my life. I had a couple of glasses of wine, didn't get drunk. It ruined three days of my life because of the domino effect it caused” “I got worse sleep that night, and then because I got worse sleep that night, I ate more poorly the next day because my dopamine system or whatever, the cortisol system was all messed up. I podcasted worse. I didn't go to the gym that day or the day after because I felt really bad. I then slept worse, and I could track all of this on my Whoop”

Just so you know. We weren’t glued to phones because there weren’t any. We had one house phone, usually in the hall, with a cable stretched halfway up the stairs for privacy. We didn’t have the internet. Then when we finally did, it screamed at us through a dial-up modem while tying up the phone line. We didn’t have Spotify. We sat by the radio with our finger hovering over the record button waiting for our favourite song. We didn’t have Netflix. We had three TV channels, and one of them shut down at night. We didn’t have Amazon deliveries turning up every day. If you wanted something, you went into town for it. We didn’t have social media followers. We had actual mates knocking on the door asking if you were coming out. We grew up with BMX and Chopper bikes, cassette tapes, Commodore 64s, BBC Micros, fish and chips wrapped in newspaper, and parents telling us to “be home before dark.” Most families weren’t rich. Far from it. But people generally had pride, resilience, manners and a sense of community. People disagreed politically without hating each other. Neighbours knew each other. Kids played outside. Teachers were respected. Police had authority. Life wasn’t perfect by any means. But many of us wouldn’t swap growing up in the 70s and 80s for anything. Yes. I’m early Gen X. Just so you know.

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