Recent content by Mika in the van

Some obesity is poor will power. Have a “friend” who now takes ozempic to lose weight. This “friend” was also a glutton where food is concerned. One sweet slice was not enough, placing dishes on the table for everyone to serve them selves at meal times often resulted in them having a plate...

Why do councils always take the easy option and tell people to sort it out themselves first? It’s obvious this isn’t going to work when one neighbour feels so entitled to do whatever they want. If you confront them at all it ends up in all sorts of retaliations. We rang a next door neighbour...

The low income health care card does NOT get the same perks as an aged pension card. This writer needs to do better research. Being self funded for years, there is very little you get on the low income healthcare card.

Our provider just put us on the top solar tariff rebate plan Because we have solar panels. Stating this would be the best plan for us. When we renewed we changed to the 2c less rebate because the kw usages were all about 4c cheaper! We only have a smaller solar system and hardly ever have...

From what I understand if you have 200,000 invested at a rate of 2% interest, the government have decided with stock market fluctuation it can jump to 2.75% interest so they’ll just assume thats what you will get. ( stinks, should be based on what you really get). Ours is a guaranteed annuity...

We went in to deposit a large cheque. They said you can do that at the ATM. Our reply…. I’m not trusting an ATM with this sized cheque, what if it swallows it like they do cards sometime. The moneys gone then. No way! I’ll stick to using customer service thanks.

That was going to be my question too! How can anyone get onto the tarmac?

Very poorly written article. Why not explain properly how you can get an income from the house you live in. You can’t unless you rent out a room. And it should NEVER be included in the assets test. That’s stating every time property values rise our pension goes down. Yet property values going...

The article is very badly written and not explained at all so thank you. I could not see how you can make income from the house you are living in.

just look at so many clothing ads. Most of the models are a perfect 8-10. Evens a women’s magazine aimed at average age of 45 and up use Hollywood actresses as their models.

Never bought from country road as the prices were always way too dear. My mother worked in a clothing factory many years ago. They had one rack for Target, another for Myer. Exactly the same dress!

I worked in a huge pharma manufacturing plant. The costs to run it were unbelievable. The power and gas bills just kept going up and up. When you have huge machinery and sterile rooms such high power demands it becomes a very expensive place to run. Staffing costs, uniforms, laundering, sterile...

because they can’t afford to manufacture in Australia with the gas and electricity costs, wages, superannuation, paid leave, work care insurance, etc etc

100%. We have no choice as there are no gas bottle suppliers in our rural town. We are fortunate to have access to our caravan for cooking and hot showers with all the power outages!

Not with an induction. We have no choice, no gas bottle suppliers in our rural town.