More massive handouts promised by both the Liberal and Labor Pork Parties yesterday — not that seniors, carers and disabled people don’t deserve the extra assistance. In previous weeks there has been money thrown at marginal seats, indigenous people, and, of course, working families. However, McBec and I were talking this morning about the pork-fest and we’re angry that neither of the major parties have announced pork targeted at DINKs (Double Income No Kids) in their late 20s and early 30s. Why is our demographic being ignored? We’re being discriminated against and oppressed!

Young DINKs face challenges too, you know. The price of a latte has shot through the roof in the last three years, not to mention delicatessen goods like French cheeses and kalamata olives. I’m totally roughing it with a cathode ray tube television. Cathode ray tube! McBec’s mental state is fragile because our dining table doesn’t match our book case or our wine rack.

DINKs are people too, you know, and it’s time that our plight was recognised by politicians. There are four or five weeks left in the election campaign and it’s not too late for John Howard to visit an inner-city cafe and release a policy of DINK assistance. Then there would be heaps of time for Kevin Rudd to visit a similar cafe in Brisbane to match Howard’s policy, with extra money for latte vouchers thrown in. People like McBec and I would gratefully accept the money and then go ahead and vote Socialist Alliance anyway.