Recent content by daisy

Hi everyone, I’ve been so impressed by Anna Bligh over the last few days so I just dropped in for a reality check. Seems I’m not alone. I’m not saying Anna is a great Premier because I got so tired of and frustrated by all the plastic spin, government waste and broken “non-core promises”...

Hi everyone, Have been away to Morocco and am trying to get back to the grind. I really need to get some kind of work routine established because I'm all over the place at the moment. Not sure about the market this year but was just going to have a (small) go at trading some swings. I've...

Hi everybody, I've got a niggling question I can't seem to find an answer. Maybe someone can help. I actively invest bulk of money and swing trade a small portion ....as I get more experience...I'll probably increase this bit. To me trading is technicals (and maybe a bit of a nod to...

With figures being bandied around of an expected up to 10% unemployment rate I’m starting to wonder just how high that figure will actually be. Once, if you were unemployed, you registered with CES and they had job boards and acted as an employment agency. However, since that function has been...

O.K. so Anna’s back and Laurie’s standing down. Laurie worked for years to put the LNP together and my hat goes off to him. But don’t you think he was doing the splits trying to bridge wet and dry libs and wet and dry nats? There must be more factions in LNP than in just about any other...

P.S. Probably the most important thing I learnt was how to set a stop loss and protect profit point. Which I obey religiously.

Me, I was so naive that when we went through what your parents are going through now, I didn’t even now that managed funds were used to buy shares. And I didn’t even now to relate this to a bear market. (I had no idea what that meant) At first, I just thought our particular adviser wasn’t very...

Re: Calling all Brainiac opinions - Superannuation - propaganda or not Thanks aldebaran but I wasn't trying to show off. During the last bear market we saw our managed funds deteriorate as your parents are doing now and became worried our super just wouldn't be enough so I had to become more...

Re: Calling all Brainiac opinions - Superannuation - propaganda or not Julia, I couldn't agree more.

Re: Calling all Brainiac opinions - Superannuation - propaganda or not My husband was also in the mining business and continued as a consultant post retirement age but was among the first to be hit when the boom went sour towards the end of last year. Sounds as if your parents have (had)...

This may not be about money. Marriages get tired. Sex gets stale. Maybe your wife loves you which is why she hasn’t left you but needs something else as well. A middle-aged woman looking in the mirror feeling time is running out. Children need her less and less. The escapism and excitement of an...

My understanding was that the pipe that delivered drinkable water to the Gulf was broken and could not be fixed until floodwaters receded because there were too many crocodiles hanging around. So there ws no drinkable water. That's why the army? has just delivered a water purification plant. In...

Apart from the sentencing of sociopaths and psychopaths, which put all of us at risk, is the other question of sentencing people who do not fit into the above category. What is this rubbish about a judge handing down, say a fifteen year sentence, and then in the next breath substantially...

Agree. My question about criminal insanity was in support of this statement not against it. If they are not redeemable/treatable then why let them out? If you forget about punishing them and just work on protecting us from them... Calliope's 'concentration camp' suggestion seems highly...

Agree Julia. Deinstitutionalisation was just a cynical cost cutting exercise. Apart from the criminally insane there are so many others with psychiatric illnesses who have suffered neglect from this policy. (small town... I see them every day...some are kind of local identities) What I have...