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    Seniors could pay 60 to 80 per cent tax on extra pension income—are you prepared?

    Maybe send to Tanya Plibersek. Isn't she the Minister responsible?
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    Seniors could pay 60 to 80 per cent tax on extra pension income—are you prepared?

    Good idea, but I wish you luck. I don't think Chalmers can understand it either. Several years ago, I wrote to my local MP (Labor/female) detailing how the means test defeats its own purpose and actually leads to more people relying on the pension. It's not just discouraging work. It's...
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    Banks are cutting rewards—but here’s the smart way to keep earning points

    I love my Visa Rewards card. The annual fee is steep, but the rewards to date have covered the fee many times over. If the rewards reduce, though, I will switch to a fee-free card.
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    Clients of Melbourne builder MJ Harris Group lose life savings as company goes bust

    This is happening all over Australia, and nobody seems to care. Regulators are useless and don't care. ASIC confirmed over 900 builders traded insolvent in one year and did NOTHING .These 'builders', in some states, don't even have to be builders at all, but just nominate a 'licensee' who has...
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    Clients of Melbourne builder MJ Harris Group lose life savings as company goes bust

    Building laws are full of loopholes. Regulators are allowing known criminals to trade without a black mark on their record, and then assisting them (deliberately or otherwise) to close down to avoid accountability when they have taken millions from unsuspecting clients and delivered nothing. The...
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    It’s not just pensions: How deeming quietly drives up Aged Care fees

    Life WAS meant to be easy, but politicians and bureaucrats deliberately made it hard, and spend their lives finding ways to make it progressively harder. Deeming rates once made sense. They don't now, because few banks actually pay interest anywhere near the deeming rates. Many have ridiculous...
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    Your age pension could drop by $203 a fortnight: Major deeming rate changes hit 460,000 Australians

    Not for those who have dared to try to provide as best they can for their old age, but are now not able to earn interest because of cruel bank policies demanding pensioners INCREASE their savings balance every month in order to earn interest. Yet they will still be robbed by a stinking...
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    Your age pension could drop by $203 a fortnight: Major deeming rate changes hit 460,000 Australians

    Okay then! I guess you are the only pensioner alive. If it doesn't affect you, it's not true? I wonder if there might be others out there who ARE impacted?
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    Your age pension could drop by $203 a fortnight: Major deeming rate changes hit 460,000 Australians

    How do you know? Have you been alive for over 10+ centuries to monitor the changes in climate over that time? You didn't learn about past changes from scientists who study archeology, because they say climate change has been happening forever. It's cyclical, and related to the movement of...
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    Lucky escape as retiree outsmarts $15,000 remote access scammers but others may not

    Don't be too trusting of any kind of technology. The capabilities of the crooks is astonishing. They can get around almost anything. Ultimately, the only protection is good habits and extreme care.
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    Victorian emergency relief centres lose federal government funding

    It's led by a confirmed Communist. What should we expect?
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    Lucky escape as retiree outsmarts $15,000 remote access scammers but others may not

    This article should add a caution to NEVER give your identification information on an incoming phone call. If you are phoned by an organisation that needs to identify you, politely tell them you can't identify yourself on an incoming call because you can't verify their identity, so you will call...
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    Should employees be fired for refusing service over politics? THIS Subway flag row divides Australia

    Thousands of people did not die under any flag! So what! The point is that thousands - actually hundreds of thousands - DID die fighting to protect the Australian way of life. And millions have committed to doing so if it was necessary, but were fortunate enough to not have to. Please show some...
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    Should employees be fired for refusing service over politics? THIS Subway flag row divides Australia

    Aboriginals don't want division. They are a beautiful peace-loving people who just want to live in harmony. The trouble-makers are the white activists who 'identify' as Aboriginals and some with a few drops of Aboriginal blood. They are scum. They are ripping off the Australian taxpayer and...
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    Should employees be fired for refusing service over politics? THIS Subway flag row divides Australia

    Albanese should also be sacked. How dare he abuse concerned Australians and lie about their intentions. Unless he is a complete idiot, he knows very well nobody was being racist or objecting to immigrants - only to him bringing in far too many and not properly managing immigration to protect our...
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