Van Morrison - Slim Slow Slider / I Start Breaking Down (live at the Hol...

Van Morrison - Astral Weeks / I Believe I've Transcended (live at the Ho...

NURSING: It doesn't matter how fantastic you are or how good you are, every now and then someone, because they are who THEY are, will subvert you, attack your reputation , and seek to annihilate you. I think this is just Nursing, as it is. It is a history of 'horizontal violence' from when nursing began, and it doesn't ever change. Mind you, I would never ever do that to anyone because I have a certain standard of personal ethics...but I do have a list of those who have done it to me, if you'd like to see it.

Noting the stepping down of Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce for basically rooting/rorting the system more than anything else. Good. You can't give your girlfriend a high paying job that doesn't exist...then give her a good severance package​ to leave it​. I wonder if anyone will ever ask her for the money back. I doubt it. It is not about the money, except...it is about the money. It's called corruption...but politicians and public servants in Australia are never expected to pay back the money. They just step down. Easy money. A country can run pretty well without a Deputy Prime Minister, and indeed a Prime Minister, and, indeed, an actual government, for many years without anyone noticing. That's reality. In fact, it usually runs much better, and more economically, that way.

John Prine - A Message from Bill Murray

Comparisons: Melbourne and Cairns Rent in Melbourne is double what it is in Cairns, in general. Pay, per hour nursing, is less. Food in Melbourne is cheaper, unless you eat out. then the cost goes up dramatically. Cars: Melbourne driving costs are higher for Registration and the Tollways cost a fair bit over a month if you need them. Apart from the highways and tollways the roads in Melbourne are a bit choppy due to the trams and their infrastructure. Utilities: Gas is reasonably priced in Melbourne so if you don't need a huge fire or heat in the winter, and don't shower every 3 hours, or cook every hour, then its better. You need big heat for about 2 months. Electricity is cheaper than Cairns and you don't need air conditioners much at all, or only rarely, because most of the houses are brick and tend towards being cold rather than hot by nature. House Buying: In Melbourne this is a bit silly. a Cairns $400,000 house around here would cost about $2million but in Ballarat or the outer West,the cost would be about the same as Cairns. Public Transport: Is very good in Melbourne, bus, train and tram...but it only takes one road accident or crossing accident, or train computer glitch, to stuff things up for half a day. Lifestyle: Melbourne is great if you don't have to work or go far to work, otherwise the travelling time eats well into living time. Police: Police are great. Very risk averse when dealing with felons and mad folk, very good, very good indeed. Ambulance: You have to pay for it here, it isnt covered under the Federal State Medicare agreement as it is in Queensland. Quite a primitive system of joining up or having private insurance. Very primitive. Summary: Cairns has its virtues, as does Melbourne. To start up here in Melbourne, without $2million in the bank, well, you can't really own a house, per se, or you live so far out of Melbourne that it is not Melbourne. For those young and making sufficient wages in the tropics, it would be silly to move to Melbourne.

My dad, the financial adviser's, advice in 1968. "save your money, save your pay and verily, you will be rich, oneday... and don't go down to banks today. Share your trust with those you love, they are not bankers, hand in glove. Don't believe who says you must invest your life in those you trust. bankers are just unmade men...and these are greedy made un-wholly men who profit by the now and then and it makes them fat and bad and then and...well...it is really bad for them. it is your work it is your pay have nothing to do with banks today."

My dad, the financial adviser's, advice in 1968.
"save your money, save your pay
and verily, you will be rich, oneday...
and don't go down to banks today.
Share your trust with those you love,
they are not bankers, hand in glove.
Don't believe who says you must
invest your life in those you trust.
bankers are
just unmade men...and
these are greedy made un-wholly men
who profit by the now and then
and it makes them fat and bad and then
and...well...it is really bad for them.
it is your work
it is your pay
have nothing to do
with banks today."