the whinging is getting out of hand, page-5

A 7% rise in council rates is quite a hike.
He's got 3 teenage boys

“Where we used to get a little bit ahead because we work hard we now find we’re just staying the same or going backwards,” Mr Manley said.

“It’s getting harder and harder.”

He doesn’t want to be seen as a whinger — “I’m sure there are people worse off than me” — but said it was hard to describe it as anything else but a losing battle.

Seems pretty fair and reasonable comment to me.Unfortunately.