Baby Boomers
There is nothing new in the mid summer sermons of Prime Minister Rudd as he meanders across the Australian continent.

The fact that health expenses are rising faster than inflation is not a revelation it is simply a well known fact. Neither is it new that the population is ageing. This simply means that people are living longer and healthier lives and is a cause for celebration, not morbid prognostications.
What is new is that Mr Rudd is blaming older Australians for the cost blowout.
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Old people never die – in fact they are feeling good and just want to keep voting conservative way into their second century.

Like the kids from Fame, Coalition voters want to live forever, long after they can remember their own name, laying down a unique challenge to policy makers on the Left.
These are the alarming findings from the Punch’s inaugural Death Survey, where we link attitudes to death with voting behaviour in an effort to drag the national political debate down to a new low.
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jed says:
@Steven to propagate that myth you must work for the libs. libs and labor are both for big government - if you don’t work for them, i’m alarmed to see you’re so easily led. your description of the libs more aptly fits the LDP, i suggest you check them out Read more »
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acker says:
@ regina….Joe has go a nice smile, when it’s not smeared with some misdirected pie & sauce…...no fly’s on sloppy joe (when he’s in the shower of course Read more »
Last month, Woodstock Festival – the event that’s come to represent Baby Boomer youth culture in our collective consciousness – turned 40.

Given the Boomers spawned the crazy consumer consumption habits that sent us crashing towards the GFC, it was only fitting for promoters to get the talent off the couch, jab them with Botox and organise the requisite merchandising and exorbitant ticket pricing. Ka-ching!
Meanwhile, the media and marketers have been celebrating ageing while concurrently exploring ways to delay its visible signs in order to appeal to the cash-cow that is the Boomers’ retirement fund (albeit one reduced by the GFC).
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Patty Huntington says:
Apple Inc – Steve Jobs (54), Steve Wozniak (59) Microsoft – Bill Gates (53) BlackBerry – Mike Lazaridis (48) The MP3 player – Kane Kramer (53 - and acknowledged by Apple as the true inventor of the iPod) Nintendo’s Mario, Donkey Kong, The Legend of Zelda, Star Fox, Pikmin, F-Zero,… Read more »
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NNick says:
“You might remember a band by the name of the Arctic Monkeys, the original myspace hype band. Their debut album sold like hotcakes; how did their follow-up album fare?” Extremely well: (from Wikipedia) “Favourite Worst Nightmare’s first day sales of 85,000 outsold the rest of the Top 20 combined, while… Read more »
It’s hard for anyone under the age of at least 50 to say they truly understood Ted Kenna, except for his family and perhaps anyone who’s almost died in combat.
And Ted was probably easier to understand than others famed or prominent among his World War II generation, a laconic, uncomplicated country guy who happened to have been given a medal called the Victoria Cross.

For valour. It’s the highest honour you can get.
But judging by the muted reaction to Ted’s death, at 90, a lot of people didn’t really get what he was about.
The story broke in the local Geelong news media on Thursday, which covers where he lived his final few years in a nursing home, in an understated manner befitting Ted, (”Nedda” to his mates).
By 4 pm, ABC radio in Melbourne hadn’t picked it up or, if maybe they did they didn’t think the news worthy to include in their bulletin.
In one way you can’t blame them, for not ‘getting it’ because 20 or 30 years ago many people of my baby boomer generation may not have only been indifferent, but possibly hostile to men of Ted Kenna’s background.
How could you expect much younger people, in their 20s, to rate the significance of a VC holder?
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Brian Jones says:
The 20th century was both marred and defined by two catastrophic conflicts that consumed 10 years before we even got to the halfway mark, so i think it’s appropriate that people like Ted Kenna be placed in perspective, Ted doesnt seem the type of person who sought limelight or fame.… Read more »
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David Jones says:
That ABC Melbourne had not referred to the death of Ted Kenna VC by 4pm on Thursdsay says more about the ABC’s news priorities than the rest of Australia. In Sydney, we were fortunate to have Rusty Priest who called Alan Jones’s program on 2GB early on Thursday to reveal… Read more »
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