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No updates for a few days, I've been a little busy to be inspired to write lately.

I've taken three calls from telemarketers this evening. Having been one myself at one point, I'm generally pretty polite to them, but I'm beginning to think three calls a night is getting a little excessive. I don't actually have caller ID display on my phone, so about all I can do is simply ignore it and allow them to go through to message bank. Given that a CPA exam is only a few weeks away, the interruptions are becoming such an issue that I'm seriously considering taking this action.

Meanwhile in Canberra there is a bit of controversy over the Federal Government's advertisements about their Industrial Relations policy. It seems the opposition aren't happy because a sentence containing a disclaimer (usually written in very small font) was missing from the full-page newspaper advertisements. Why has nobody bothered to ask why taxpayers' money is being spent on this in the first place? Frankly, I couldn't care less about a few words of text, banish the whole damn ad, I say.

After all, it's little more than pre-emptive election campaigning, so why are public funds being wasted on this garbage? And why haven't the ALP (supposedly the opposition) gone to town on it? I guess it's because they figure they might get the opportunity to do it if they ever win government. After all, nobody complained about them doing it at state level in Queensland with the $5 million in press releases relating to the V1 "bikeway".