Today it is a huge licensed club, with soccer stadium, having grown rapidly under the leadership of the charismatic and dictatorial president Tony Labbozzetta. But his 15 year reign at the club was also marked by bitter personal politics, claims of intimidation and vendettas, and years of litigation. After supporting Tony Labbozzetta for so long, the members have turned.
Some people pay a lot, others pay comparatively little.
We're talking here about the tax base, We're talking here about over the years a quite significant shifting of the tax burden from high-wealth and corporates to PAYE taxpayers. This is serious, it's systematic, and it's on the increase. Especially when the tax officials are overworked, underpaid, and doing their own photocopying. Kylie Morris lived for six months in Gaza, a surreal, extraordinary place where hard reality, and insanities, are beyond diplomacy, beyond reason. In a region where 500 people have died violently in less than a year treachery, rhetoric, bombs, poverty, fear are all liberally mixed with religion, nationalism - and fanaticism.