What’s the real value of your job?A new British report which looks at the social value of various professions versus their levels of pay, has found that — surprise surprise — cleaners and child-care workers are far more valuable than bankers or accountants.
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Iemma ups pubs’ gambling while Russ flicks the pokies
Such irony. Two multi-millionaires, Russell Crowe and Peter Holmes a Court, move to ditch Souths Leagues Club’s 160 poker machines because they don’t think the social cost of the pokies is “appropriate” - most poker machine players are on social security, 30 to 50 per cent of pokies profits come gambling addicts.
