It is called free enterprise all based on supply and demand. I don't want any government telling me what I can or cannot do if what I am doing is lawful. Government intervention into free enterprise would be a disaster.

I think in all the circumstances our present government has done a very good job. We have stayed out of a conflict that should never have been started and supplied weapons tracking systems to our UAE, a close ally of ours. If potato head, the man of many ministries, the prince knighter or little Johnnie had been running the show we would have been heavily involved and at major economic risk.

Decisions these politicians make are not unilateral. They rely on specific government departments and outside commercial organisations in the creation of their policies. It is a combination of these strategies that is then released by the relevant minister.

i have travelled fairly extensively and spent years overseas and I am fully convinced we live in the best country in the world. Look at our standard of living and what we are able to do. Some countries cannot even offer their citizens clean drinking water and yet we have these serial whingers and government bashers demanding the government race in and change their nappies every time an issue arises.

All the fuel that was supposed to arrive has arrived. Of the 82 ships still to arrive over the next month all except 5 are coming but an additional 3 have been added. We are going to being paying more for a quite a few things for the foreseeable future, but so is everyone else.

Save your whingeing until you have a real problem.