Recent content by Aussiecris

I saw this on the news, yes he is a lawyer in training. The university put up notices 4 weeks beforehand advising the change to cashless.

Very true words, I won't pay trades etc cash because this is what happens. I have worked hard all my life and pay my taxes so these people should as well.

Thanks for this article, all my life i have seen technology change and I just knew that no matter how exasperating it could be I had to try and learn. The changes we have embraced over the years, people now whinging about closing ATMs, remember when they first came out with the plastic card...

My daughter uses these meal services, there are never any leftovers, if you miss a meal you end up with waste, the amount of packaging is excessive and they are bloody expensive. The money she spends each week for 'convenience', I could have well over a weeks meals, with left overs for lunches...

Woolworths have had digital receipts for years. Extremely handy if you need to return something, you don't need to go rummaging through the bin

The generic ATMs are owned privately not by the banks

One issue the article did not address is the cost of transporting cash around the country so it is available to all. Recently banks and businesses that rely on having cash available like Woolies and Coles and Post offices have paid millions of dollars to financially bail out Armagard as they...

Then don't use it..simple

I welcome this, if I am just looking up the news or a recipe or my general extremely boring scrolling and searching and you find the need to verify my age from my boring very uninteresting usage history feel free, but if I was a child and wanting to visit sites that may be inappropriate or...

I had the complete opposite experience with my Samsung watch, detected falls when I was asleep, at a concert and other times. My poor daughter getting panicked because she gets a message that her mums had a fall, turned the 'feature ' off

Not as many cash carriers now, rules have changed on limits for flights etc and the charges are huge

This place is an island people, I can only imagine keeping cash available for the small minority would be a logistical nightmare.

I would eat everything on the list, especially snails, dripping in garlic butter they are delicious

Again a long rambling article trying to incite a response. Who is reporting after 10pm? Memories are very short, phone lines use to go down all the time, there use to be a several hour wait to get through to centrelink and in times gone by you had to physically front up to centrelink. This big...