For workers struggling to pay their bills, the CPRS is bad news. In its second year, the CPRS will probably cost the average household about $300 extra for electricity and gas, writes Peter Jones.
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For workers struggling to pay their bills, the CPRS is bad news. In its second year, the CPRS will probably cost the average household about $300 extra for electricity and gas, writes Peter Jones.
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6 Comments
Fontastic piece of work there FD.
Makes me feel somewhat better to know that even Purveyors of Potentially Untoward Things can’t get their sh*t together sufficiently to promise you an exact arrival time…
Where in the home *does* one install a missile shield, anyway? What if it clashes with the carpets? Do I get to choose the colour?
FD, you have been in brilliant form for … I was going to say for weeks, but I can’t remember how long it’s been now. Months at least.
How do you describe a cartoonist’s strike rate? Bradmanesque will have to do.
Anyone planning to nuke feral cats is alright by me. Goodbye kitty
I hear Brendan Nelson’s Hair fuzzed the Bradfield bi-election then lodged in Malcolm Turnbull’s throat. I expect it will now wander Europe as an endangered species. You’re on a roll FD!
Obviously my eyesight is worse than I realised - I read the line in the second panel as “You’re not terrorists or muslins are you?” and got all excited about the idea of menacing bits of cloth operating missile defence shields for nefarious purposes. Then I realised…
In my defence, it’s FDOTM - it COULD have been muslins!