The burden of smoking on taxpayers is inflated to whatever figure sounds scary enough to justify increasing excise further. Smokers are enormous contributors to tax revenue.

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There's no reason why voting should continue to be compulsory, but I don't think it'll change anytime soon because it's not a big enough issue with voters and would benefit the Coalition too much for other parties to not fight it tooth and nail. I think a sensible third option would be to introduce ...

Mants wrote:I have heard several exciting things regarding this redevelopment and the centre's top floors. If done properly, it could actually work really well.

Tease.

Those floors have been fenced off and gutted since Dazzeland closed right?

I remember in 2007, my sister moved to overseas for about 8 months and when she came back, Adelaide had a tramline that ran all the way down to the University. Imagine being away from Adelaide for a larger period, like 10 years? You'd return and not recognise it!

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Nobody else finds this logo really, really, really terrible?

I read it in the MX as well. I imagine this is brilliant news for SA, the last time I was home it was all doom and gloom after BHP had announced they weren't going ahead with the Roxby Downs expansion (after a lot of state government hype about SA getting its share of the mining boom).