I made note of the pharmacies that ran that propaganda with signs with scare tactics on them and refuse to use any of them.

You can basically get the cheapest plan around and try to use whatever benefits it does provide.

I went with a non-profit.

I’m on a similar income and live in the highest cost of living part of the country, so I have to ask, how is it you’re unable to buy?

I bought my house this year and granted it took a while saving up but with our income this high the mortgage barely registers. Early days but we’re on track to pay off the home in under 10 years.

What are the chances councils will approve the building of Churches, Synagogues and Mosques within strategic radius of city centres to make all protests within a city automatically illegal?

Surely it is zero.

Cost of living has an enormous impact on youth, poor parents are under significantly increased stress which results in not just the inability to afford necessities but also increases domestic violence, divorce rates and suicides.

The article, while not great, is clearly the refutation of claims made by Ed Husic. The onus of proof would then be on Ed.

From your first link

One only has to look at the origins of the word ‘Science’. It comes from the Latin word ‘Scientia’, which simply means ‘to know’.

To suggest that there are any groups of human beings who didn’t have science is, ironically, quite unscientific.

This completely dismisses that science is a formalised practice of the scientific method and is akin to claiming that any knowledge is science which I reject.

I have yet to read the other sources provided, which I will get to when I have the time.

Then show us a single hypothesis formed by Indigenous peoples pre-colonisation.

Seems federated comments are several days behind.

Anyway that’s a swing and a miss, that stupid bitch died alone and taking social security payments.

I support Unions and workers.

The Albanese government has delivered a tax cut to all Australians, and stopped spending money on sex workers through the NDIS.

You seem very uninformed.

Aged care has economic benefits as fewer working age people are required to care for the elderly.

This is very basic stuff.

Blowjobs don’t contribute anything to the economy.

No the point was less fucking. Though I have got mine.

You’re amusing enough but I wouldn’t call you a clown.

Aged care, military and school funding all benefit society as a whole.

Paying for hookers does not benefit society as a whole and therefore it is not comparable, meaning you have made an argument of false equivalence.

Taxes can be lowered if the government isn’t wasting money.

You haven’t refuted my argument in the slightest.

Every cent I pay in taxes that are spent on something I don’t benefit from is literally money I no longer have to improve my own quality of life.

I’m sorry that you have to pay 100% of your income

Hmmm looks like that’s an argument I never made, let’s check the definition of a straw man argument.

A straw man is a form of argument and an informal fallacy based on giving the impression of refuting an opponent’s argument, while actually refuting an argument that was not presented by that opponent

Nothing about the straw man fallacy excludes hyperbole.

Under examples we can see

Exaggerating (sometimes grossly) an opponent’s argument, then attacking this exaggerated version.

Oh you thought I was talking about the very real possibility of someone wanting to commit suicide due to disability…. Tsk tsk.

As I said right from the outset, if there is no science to say that paying for hookers is a more effective use of money than other support methods then it shouldn’t be paid for by public funds.

No evidence, no funds, Im a happy man.

Do try to keep up.

It’s alright, the government agrees with me.

No more blowjobs on NDIS dollars.

Guess your strawman will be offing itself soon.

They should be refused re-entry to Australia.

More of my tax is going to the NDIS than to Medicare.

I would rather funds be spent on Medicare than hookers but you do you.

Well that’s a lot of false equivalence going on, good luck with that.