Censorship

Censorship has reared its ugly head again, the Australian Government's proposed internet filter that was to stop child porn and pedophilia has now spread to blocking Euthanasia websites. This is the problem with censorship, it starts out with laudable aims and ends up a political tool.
Australian censors back in the late 50's edited 'the carpetbaggers' novel replacing 'fuck' with 'screw' and later in the novel 'screw' with 'have'. They edited 'he fondled her soft brown nipple' to  'he fondled her soft brown ', is that an improvement?
As horrid as child porn is, censorship is a slippery slope to madness, it didn't achieve anything in the 50's and 60's, it won't achieve anything today. We don't want to be like China with political masters dictating how we should think.

Baby Boomers Double Standards

Queensland's LNP Shadow minister David Gibson recently said "It never ceases to amaze me when I listen to the baby boomers who are incredibly selfish in expecting that other generations will pay for their retirement". Well David, when we 'baby boomers' started work there was no superannuation and we started work on the promise that our taxes would pay for a pension when we retired. It was only in the later years that super became available, for most of my working life superannuation was only available to management and often only senior management. David Gibson if you are so keen not to be selfish, how about you start by paying back all the contributions the government has made to your super that exceed the standard 9%. Next, how about you refuse to draw a pension until you reach 67. Double Standards it's all we ever get from politicians with their noses in the trough. When I'm Emperor politicians will be paraded through the streets twice a year for the public to throw rotten fruit at them.