Recent content by elaine41

As a former psychiatric nurse I agree that this treatment should be banned. I hated it when I was working & became even more opposed to this form of "treatment" after leaving the system. At one time, I was working with a small group of ladies doing craft work. One of these ladies was under a...

The fees charged by the public guardian are designed to take everything you have in savings etc. I would never use either the public guardian or public trustee. These organisations are both tarred with the same brush. Find a friend who will take on responsibility for your guardianship, power...

There is a price cap for people in aged care homes - 87% of pension. Nursing homes are not non-profit organisations, they are businesses. They also have very high costs to care for your mother. Consider this, they have to pay for cleaners, laundry staff, nurses (registered & unregistered)...

Whoever looked for a use by date on a packet of biscuits? Just eat them & enjoy them. All that can happen to them is they maybe go a bit soft & that won't kill you. I buy biscuits when they are on a good special - & I buy a lot of them then - put them in a plastic container so they don't get...

About time. The NDIS has been a system of abuse for its entire existence. Young people who are "diagnosed" as autistic get on the DIS programme. Never reviewed despite the fact that some of them by the time they reach adulthood are capable of holding good jobs while others with the same...

So we have some brightspark suggesting that if taxes etc on downsizing or moving into retirement villages were removed 94,000 seniors would take these options. UMMMM!!! Where are the retirement villages to house these people? Where are they located? Firstly, they don't exist. Second, they...

Firstly, to whoever wrote this article, Trump is the current president of USA not the former (although that term does apply as well) president of USA. As for his statement that the bombing obliterated the nuclear sites in Iran, just remember that he is TACO Trump & will come up with another...

Again, yet another OTT headline. Renowned??? Never heard of her just like we have never heard of most USA celebs. Just more clickbait which is getting to be a bit boring.

It has been years since I have been able to afford to buy any red meat. I would love to have a good steak occasionally, or roast lamb or pork. I don't even mind roast beef. I grew up eating roast mutton (before it was called lamb & priced accordingly), now you can't even buy mutton. So, it's...

Good luck in shopping around. In my town we have one GP & he/she usually stays for a year (or 2 at the most), then we are without a GP for the next year or 2. So, many travel 45-50kms to the next town to maintain a regular GP. But then, there are only 2 practices in that town. One has ony 1...

I have never heard that. It would also make the word rather weird as you would say 'oten'. If have always thought that the 't' was silent.

And then when people type ect for the abbreviation of etcetera. Another annoying Americanism is when they call overs (as in cricket or baseball) over.

Oh yes. I can't leave that one alone & have to ask the poster why they are so defiant & suggest that they check their dictionary for the definition of both words.

Or nucular instead of nuclear.

I was definitely taught the difference between "is & are" & "accept & except". One of my big "peeves" listening to broadcasters & the average Aussie is "off of". These 2 words do not belong together. Americans can't read or say what they read e.g. Arkansas - how on earth does that say...