| Person A | I am modestly set-up. Not rich or what you’d call wealthy, but I’m doing ok. |
| Person B | I am a low-income earner. I’m paying off my own home and things get tight sometimes. |
| Person C | I’m unemployed. We get rent subsidy. It’s hard. |
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| Person A | I have a wife. She doesn’t have to work. |
| Person B | I have a wife and three kids. She works in the supermarket. She says she’s the oldest checkout chick in the business. |
| Person C | My husband left me and the kids two years ago. Said he was sick of it. |
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| Person A | I had a Holden Commodore but I traded it in on a BMW. What’s wrong with having a nice car? The insurance is a bit high, but you need a little luxury. I think I deserve it. |
| Person B | My old gas guzzler is ok. It’s noisy, and cost’s me a bit to run. But it goes. |
| Person C | I walk a lot. |
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| Person A | I own several rental properties. I run stocks too. I use broadband Internet to monitor the share prices. I lead a very busy lifestyle. |
| Person B | I work in a factory. We make sprockets. I work from 8 to 4.30. We have to work overtime, but most of it goes to the government in tax. |
| Person C | Every time I go for a job, there’s at least fifty other people there. I want to work, but no one will give me a chance. |
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| Person A | I take my wife and children out at least once a week for a meal. I usually manage two or three business lunches with associates. I manage my weight by spending an hour a day in my home gym or on the golf course. I take a glass of red with every meal, for my health. |
| Person B | We try to go to Macca’s at least one Saturday a month, but it’s quite costly with the three kids. When I get home from work I’m too tired to do anything. I just watch TV, down a couple of beers, and go to bed. |
| Person C | We don’t go out. The tele’s free. I gave up smoking – it cost too much. I get home-brand lemonade for the kids. |
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| Person A | I pay over sixty-five thousand dollars in tax every year. It’s a disgrace. Just to support people like that (indicates C) |
| Person B | I pay over ten thousand dollars in tax every year. The tax rates should be lower for us low-income earners. We’d be better off if it wasn’t for the dole bludgers(looks at C) |
| Person C | I don’t earn enough to pay tax. |
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| Person A | I’d employ him (points to B) but not THAT (points to C) |
| Person B | I wouldn’t slave my guts out for HIM (points to A). She (points to C) wouldn’t know what work was. |
| Person C | I just want a job. |
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| Person A | I have lots of acquaintances. I just have to click my fingers and they all come running. When I throw a party, there’s never any shortage of guests. |
| Person B | I go drinking with me mates, and they come round now and then. Sometimes we go on a pub crawl. |
| Person C | I’ve made a few friends at my Church. They come round and cheer us up. Sometimes they bring a packet of biscuits, and we’ll pray, and laugh together. I do odd jobs round the Church sometimes. I suppose it’s a labour of love. |
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| Person A | I’m comfortable, but not rich. There are plenty of people better off than me. I’m just a normal person. |
| Person B | He’s one of the ‘HAVE’s. I’m one of the ‘HAVE NOT’s. I’m like that ‘Lazarus’ guy in the bible, at the rich man’s gate. It isn’t fair. Almost everyone is better off than me. |
| Person C | We’re lucky really. There’s usually something to eat and drink, and the kids have a yard to play in. It could be worse. |
