Recent content by elaine41

If you believe all that twaddle you must believe in fairies & Santa. Doctors who are not part of Trump's followers have a very different story with one going so far as to state that he has less than a year to live.

I do not have a MyGov a/c & do not want to have one. If any govt agency wants to contact me they have my address. My computer is not the post office. As far as I'm concerned if businesses want to send me accounts or other correspondence via email then they have to pay for the privilege. I...

Anyone who can afford to have a holiday home should pay tax on it. So many people can't afford even one home so a 2nd home is, in effect, income producing. If someone in your family, including you, the owner, uses it for holidays then that should be taxed as income which you have gained by not...

When I care for my mother I got carers allowance & 9 weeks/year respite care. I was lucky in that I had retired before I needed to take this much care. I have a friend who worked full time while caring for her mother with advanced dementia. She was told by Centrelink that because she was...

Jobseekers have not paid taxes all their lives to be entitled to a reasonable living standard pension. You have the option to go out & get a job so you don't have to live on the Jobseeker Allowance but many of you make the choice not to work. If you want a reasonable lifestyle and later in...

The Aged Pension is not a handout. When it was started - way back when - a percentage of everyone's wage was taken as a form of taxation to be earmarked for Pension Fund. This was to be handled by the govt so that when one reached retirement age there was still money coming in. As wages have...

I remember when I moved to the small town where I now live, there was a move to get Bendigo Bank here. People of the town had to guarantee a fairly large amount would be deposited & left in the bank without withdrawals. Unfortunately (or maybe now fortunately) this sum could not be raised in...

This sounds to me more like a push to get people to become "travel nurses" (never heard such a term before), not a way for seniors to get better care. I would have to disagree with you that such a person coming into a practice for a short period of time would "make the lives of older patients...

I had recently gone shopping at one outlet then when I came out the car wouldn't start. Had to get it to mechanic where it had to stay. So grocery bag in hand I still had to go to WW for more groceries. I asked the girl at the self-checkout (the closest to the entrance door) could I leave my...

Never heard of the show or the actor so not much of a star.

I don't know where you live but here in NSW we get nothing from the govt because we live in the country. That did happen many years ago (& it was only about $250) but has long ceased. Instead we just have to pay a high price for petrol while listening to people in Sydney complain because they...

I can't speak too highly of the delivery man in my area. All parcels are delivered right to my door. Admittedly we don't have AP Courier, just the local postie, but he is THE BEST.

Why should they be treated any differently to the aged? The aged pension is roughly the same & we have to live on that. I now pay $180/fortnight for my specialist care as well as having to pay for a community car to take me to the appt which is 200km from my home. That's another...

In winter I cook a lot with my slow cooker & have found them to be very economical. I even make my own caramel in the slow cooker in bulk. I love condensed milk caramel so I buy 5 or 6 cans of Nestles Sweetened Condensed Milk & put them in the slow cooker. Cover with water (essential the...

Last week I got 3 doz eggs for $3.30!!! Shelf price was $4.70/doz but at checkout scanned as $8. I asked how come & the checkout girl went to check & said they had been placed in the wrong place. She tried to correct 1 carton to $4.70 but couldn't work out the difference between $8 & $4.70...