The row over the big miners started a sort of "class" war. The workers were expected to vote to extract as much money as possible from the big miners and the Liberal voters were angry about the tax and wanted it scrapped. It got me thinking that just because you are a Liberal voter doesn't necessarily mean you are well off or upper class.

They talk about Australia being a classless society and we like to think we are but I think it's a myth. Thank goodness we don't have any upper crust, plumb in the mouth English gentleman nonsense here but there's definitely a divide.

Lets split it into three - working class, middle class and upper class. I guess it all comes down to what you do for a living. But is a truck driver more working class than a bank teller? And what about the small successful business man who has a few staff. Because he is his own boss, is he middle class? The upper class are easier to define, doctors, lawyers, bankers etc but what about high flying executives on huge bonuses, do they qualify upper class. Does a woman's class depend on what her husband does for a living? What if she's a solicitor married to a plumber, it's all so confusing. So what class are you?