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Education is also free in Norway, from primary, secondary to tertiary level and post tertiary. You can do a Masters Degree in Norwegian or English depending on the course and the university. There are no tuition fees for attending public higher education in Norway, as all the costs are...

You're a kind-hearted person too, topcropper. You pick up and deliver firewood for very elderly pensioners in your town during winter, for free. Without the aged pension, you said, they would curl up and die because they are too old to work. I can still remember what you said. :o...

I would not do what he did, topcropper. I would not incarcerate children in detention and leave them with untreated sores, red eyes, constant coughing, stomach complaints, unrelenting anxiety, PTSD, under constant threat of being sexually mistreated, and with suicidal tendencies. We would...

Article in The Age today by Julian Burnside, QC "Scott Morrison's calculated cruelty is his legacy" "He proved to be a callous Immigration Minister, yet he is given another portfolio that requires compassion". Julian Burnside is a barrister and a human rights advocate...

D.T., there is no money left in the govt coffers from 'cutting the car industry loose'. For every car that was imported from Korea, Japan and China previously, Australia charged approx $2000 importation tariff tax (5%). It was revenue earned from this foreign car import tariff that the...

A fellow passenger on a tram on Friday was sharing with me that mature age people she knows who have been unemployed for 12-14 months have been told that if they don't apply for 40 jobs a month, they will be cut off benefits. I think the thread should be renamed 'Where to for....Australia?' We...

Do people understand the effect the GFC had worldwide 2008-2011? It made it soooo much harder for Labor to manage the economy and keep things humming along...yet Labor didn't squeal like stuck pigs like the Libs are doing now....:rolleyes: