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    Click and a miss: Aussie business owner’s email scam nightmare rolls into cybersecurity alert

    Mine do come up orange, but there are calls from medical people etc that I might miss. If they don’t leave a voicemail. I do a reverse call Australia that shows me where it is from if ok leave a message to the call.
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    It's almost the weekend! What's your stress reliever? ☺️

    Love most music but the Valkyrie’s are a bit much Lol
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    It's almost the weekend! What's your stress reliever? ☺️

    My I pad and I are joined at the hip. So many people I have chatted to over the years, we can all express our feeling good and bad. A bit like the old pen pal days.
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    Ask Joy: I think someone I know needs a little help (Part 2).

    Quite believe this. However I had no trouble over the time I was with them. The provider couldn’t have been more helpful and quite upset when I couldn’t continue. The carer they gave me was so lovely I cut back on my budget changing meat to less expensive proteins as hard as I could and when...
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    Ask Joy: I think someone I know needs a little help (Part 2).

    Me too, the rich get richer and we can’t afford a taxi
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    Ask Joy: I think someone I know needs a little help (Part 2).

    So pleased to see your warning re added costs. At 84 i was granted a level 2 package. Living alone and capable health wise to stay in my house, I needed little, but that need was important. Joined a good provider only to find out when over two months I had to pay over $900 as my government...
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    The Australian government will impose a ban on this home makeover item by next year!

    Fortunately no with silicosis, but yes to asbestos. Not as if we do t have alternatives. Having said that if a business could guarantee that they would supply adequate protection that might allow it to be used.
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    Click and a miss: Aussie business owner’s email scam nightmare rolls into cybersecurity alert

    At 84 doing ok, but only because I believe nothing and check everything. Usually twice.
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    Rising home insurance costs concern Aussies. Is your bill skyrocketing, too?

    It gets so scary, my payment was $79 per month then $179” no difference with other insurers. Just not game to do without. But a lot of things coming off my shopping list. Maybe the powers that be think the latest pension rise will cover it? No point anxting they really don’t care.
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    Royal comeback: Princess Catherine resumes her activities after successful cancer treatment

    Hard enough to have cancer but to have to share it with the world doubly hard. She seems to be handling it with dignity
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    Peck's Anchovette Fish Paste

    Fresh bread lashings of butter and a smear of pecks? Yum!
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    A Most Elaborate Scam - AFP Impersonation

    Have to remember that Lol
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    A Most Elaborate Scam - AFP Impersonation

    Maybe they believe that nobody would believe such a silly thing.
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    Government unveils $5.6 billion investment in transformative aged care reforms

    Different for me, I have had two cleaners that should have angel wings. When I opted out of the system I paid privately, so worth having to cut back elsewhere
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    Government unveils $5.6 billion investment in transformative aged care reforms

    You arnt terrible so many stories about this. At 84 I am staying home until the death knock. Also where are these poor neglected souls families?
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    'People are very desperate': Aussies resort to drastic measures amid cost-of-living crisis

    Thin edge of the wedge. Stealing is stealing. But how dreadful it is that so many people are so close to the poverty line
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    A Most Elaborate Scam - AFP Impersonation

    My brain would turn to mush by the time I had read the first paragraph, it would get the flick very quickly . Thanks for the heads up
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    Mysterious surveillance camera in bike lane baffles drivers and cyclists

    People know not to use phones while driving, anything that can possibly saves lives is okay with me. If I do anything wrong big brother can watch as much as he likes.
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    Government unveils $5.6 billion investment in transformative aged care reforms

    Frankly no, but seeing is believing. I opted out of a package as they expected me to pay a daily amount out of my rather empty pocket.
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