IS IT just me or is crime really in fashion at the moment.
First I read about someone driving, not off the tee down the first, but into the actual pro shop at the Beerwah Golf Club last week. What a senseless act for a few hundred.
Then there’s The Local being targeted over the weekend.
Or is it just because people can post crimes in real time on socials?
Either way it’s miserable stuff.
The filthy crims get away with a few hundred dollars or a grand to blow on whatever, but the business is left dealing with the time and effort of the clean-up, lost business, insurance headaches, and the trauma of being robbed.
Power struggles
While all the focus is on governments helping households cope with price hikes – such as the 25 per cent increase in power prices from July – maybe someone should think about the impact on small businesses. I was talking with a cafe owner the other day who told me their power bill was $500 a week.
Very few cafe owners I know are driving Bentleys and a 25 per cent increase, on top of everything else, is a huge stress lever.
While all the focus is about helping households cope with outrageous price hikes, maybe small businesses could get a helping hand along the way.
Just keep swimming
Like most people, I’d prefer kids didn’t drown, but I’m going to say the government’s $150 swimming vouchers – totalling $4.8m – are a complete waste of taxpayer money.
The government might argue I’m advocating more deaths. Well, no. Rather, kids under four would benefit more from splashing around under the guidance of attentive parents for free, instead of paying for six lessons.
The school swimming curriculum was reduced to weekly lifesaving lessons years ago.
This is yet another ‘cost-of-living’ exercise in vote-winning inanity.