Random thoughts and observations
I started a web poll on the newspaper website about older drivers. Do people think drivers over 60 are better, worse or the same as others? The question followed a series of incidents in the space of a few weeks. These included a 93-year-old man driving into a parked vehicle, an 88-year-old unlicensed driver crashing [...]
I believe that David Hicks should have been brought to trial by now. His case should be dealt with as quickly as possible. Most Australians hold that view, I believe, but I don’t know many who think Hicks is an innocent babe in the woods who has been unfairly persecuted. Hence my surprise at the [...]
We had a bad experience recently with the National Australia Bank, the bank with the unfortunate acronym of NAB. Juliet and I are reviewing our superannuation strategy and our financial adviser is setting up new accounts. Juliet’s super was dormant in a retirement savings account with NAB. We’d lost the relevant paperwork so Juliet visited [...]
Some people seem to think that newspapers delight in publishing bad news. As an editor I admit that bad news, tragedy and conflict often help to sell papers. That says something about human beings, I think, rather than newspapers. From a personal perspective I prefer to focus on the positive but unless you're colorblind or [...]
This blog is a rant against HESTA, the health and community services sector superannuation fund. I have an account with them into which my former employer made its nine percent compulsory payments. Upon starting at the Kalgoorlie Miner I transferred my main super account seamlessly from ING to the WA News company fund without any [...]
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