Silly old buggers

The phrase infamously used by Bob Hawke during an election campaign when approached by a pensioner in Whyalla. BOB BELL: You get more a week than we get a year. BOB HAWKE: [inaudible] you silly old bugger. ABC Twenty years on, Labor's ...
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Kevin Rudd throws cash at real estate developers, whilst taking money from pensioners

Kevin Rudd's government is planning to give real estate investors $8000 per dwelling in tax credits to encourage discounted rents.[1] Yet, at the same time, the government has plans to slash benefits for pensioners and carers. Such people are ...
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