As a cricketer, left handers should be banned.
I bowled off spin and prior to the in swing, loved left handers
and in all honesty (and i'm going to get flamed for this, but i don't care) an $80k salary really isn't that much if you are the sole income earner for a family...
No it isn't, not with the cost of living in Australia. You can obviously live of it, but not particularly comfortably.
Not sure how you change the cost of living though. It doesn't seem to get brought up all that much in the Liberal parties ideas of slashing penalty rates for low income workers and blaming of the high wages in Australia for the decline of the manufacturing industry. If the COL is what it is surely it's better to have people making a wage where they can afford to live, rather than increasing the amount of people struggling to make ends meet.
If we're talking politics, amused me to see of all people Corey Bernardi apparently opposes the paid parental leave scheme. What a f**kwit that bloke is, advocates his "family values," attacks those outside the nuclear family ideal based on his christian beliefs etc but when there's an option for something that allows his views to be in a way enacted (that is, mothers able to stay at home for a longer period of time before going back to work) he wants to oppose it. Reminds me of the Keating speach that summed up the neoliberal conservative position - "you advocate families thinking you speak for them yet you don't advocate family support."
I'm not even particularly enamoured by this piece of legislation, but the hypocrisy of Bernarndi is pretty astounding.
