But when we do retire, they tell us if we have over $250,000, we will not get a pension.

Go figure.

I COULD not believe what the news bulletins were saying on Tuesday when they highlighted a bid by Liberal Democrat Senator, David Leyonhjelm, to “bribe” the federal government into relaxing the regulations on the rapid fire Adler shotgun, provided he supported their industrial relations and other legislation.

This is far too serious a matter to be used in such an irresponsible and immoral manner.

Some people are saying the Adler should be freely available provided it is for the control of feral animals!

I guarantee it would be less than 24 hours before these killing machines were in the hands of criminals and murderers and we will be well on the road to the USA’s disastrous state of gun crime.

Heaven forbid.

TWO letters in Tuesday's Daily Advertiser caught my eye.

The first, by Peter Matthews, was applauding the decision to award the Nobel Prize for literature to Bob Dylan.  

Peter says Dylan’s words have made us think about how we treat our fellow inhabitants.

The second letter, by Ross Flanery, was condemning Lisa Ryan for opposing the construction of a piggery in Harden.

I have just viewed footage taken in one of the Blantyre piggeries and the pitiful animals incarcerated within its walls were truly enduring hell on earth.

In the farrowing crates, sows were clearly going mad and many had great difficulty standing up or lying down due to weakness, the tiny size of their cages, and the slippery metal floor.

Some pigs had less than two inches of space in front or behind them and piglets had their teeth and tails cut off with no pain relief.

At the slaughterhouse, the pigs were lowered into a carbon dioxide gas chamber, where they endured excruciating pain as the gas suffocated them and turned to carbonic acid in their eyes, nose, mouth and lungs.

Peter says he hopes Bob Dylan’s lyrics will encourage us to think about how appropriate our actions have been in the past and how we might do things better in the future.

I sincerely hope Ross Flanery reflects on these words with regard to the proposed Harden piggery.

Our current treatment of animals is absolutely shameful.

HERE we have a company wanting to build a piggery in Harden, which would provide work for people.

We have objectors who have nothing in their own life and do not want anyone to have some in their life. These people have tried to interfere with everything on the land.

They have stuck their noses into the cattle, sheep, wool, eggs, pigs, water; it doesn’t matter about the crops farmers need to grow.

The mosquitoes are more important to breed and spread their diseases. These parasites are running the country because the government have not got enough guts.

They should be given a one-way ticket to China.