Herbal Teas
Sofie thinks my newest herbal tea smells like bong-water. She still drank some of it, so it couldn't have been that bad.

Private health cover
Spent a good chunk of the day comparing various private health insurance packages. The Australian government is going to charge me a big slab of money for earning chunks of cash but not getting private insurance, so I'm hoping to rectify that shortly.

What worries me is how much the government is pushing private health insurance. All Australians are entitled to free public health insurance, called Medicare. Higher income earners pay a Medicare levy to help pay for this, the even higher income earners pay an extra levy if they don't have private insurance.

Recently the government has introduced a 30% government rebate on private health insurance. This, combined with the extra levy that was recently introduced, is a big incentive for the higher-earners to get private insurance. That's all fine with me, but I'm a little worried that it might be the start of a "ramping-down" of public health cover. I don't want to see Australia increase the rift between the medical services available to the rich and the poor.