“ | There is an unspoken covenant between taxpayers and government that when we pay taxes, we expect that money to be used first, foremost and always for the good of the Commonwealth, hopefully in an efficient manner.
It is not to empower shiny bums to keep polishing the Treasury benches by splurging billions in key seats with inefficient and iniquitous boondoggles. |
” |
— Michael Pascoe, Political integrity just dropped another notch as government rorts rage on (2021-07-05) [1] |
About Pelagic
Occupation: IT Systems and Network Administrator.
Lives: near Blacktown (regional centre), within City of Blacktown (local government area) NSW, AU. Blacktown is in the greater Sydney metropolitan area (officially County of Cumberland).
Time: UTC+10 (Apr–Sep) or UTC+11 (Oct–Mar).
Depending on time of year, that puts me 2 hours behind New Zealand; 1–2 hours ahead of Japan; 2–3 hours ahead of China, Philippines, Western Australia; 5–7 hours ahead of greater India; 7–11 hours ahead of Europe, Britain, Africa; 13–16 hours ahead of South America; and 14–19 hours ahead of North America (excluding Alaska in their winter and Newfoundland in their summer).
Specialties. Apart from IT-related topics (which are already richly documented on the Web), I can't consider myself an expert in any particular subject.
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