Several council workers now required to do the same job that used to take half the time by one person 20 years ago. Reason for this is because of legislation brought upon us by weak governments pandering to every marginal group in this country. It might make us safer, but the extra cost is found everywhere and as a result we have less money to spend on local produce for example because all our money, through sleight of hand, has been taken away from us in the form of insurances, safety compliance issues, and a myriad of other regulations that are imposed upon us for our own good.

Go and buy a pie and have a think where all the costs of that pie come from!

Fairwork Australia has a finger in it (not literally), Worksafe, consultants flogging their new compliance systems, government taxes, water rights for the cattle, chemical regulations for the land the cattle graze on, mostly INNEFFICIENT (read government) or GREEDY organisations are gouging out a decent whack from this pie ..... you could name at least 50 rip offs directly related to the humble pie we just bought. But how many of these have made life in general better, and how many of these just raise revenue for those that don't deserve it, as a result of some bureaucrat responding to the marginal #####'s!!