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  1. Lizzylou

    Shocking survival story: A farmer escaped a crocodile attack by biting its eye!

    He is very lucky to be alive, although I would expect that he would have been aware of the dangers of wading in water to check out the fish.
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    Fed-up Aussies take to the roads to express outrage

    Hey why not blame the current government, people seem to be blaming them for everything else. The roads are terrible, although I haven't seen one person say hang on we pay registration for our cars, and council rates where is the money going from those sources of income? I don't agree with...
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    This photo reveals the dark side of Australia's 'cashless future'

    This debate will go on for a long time, I use cash when I can and card when I have to. Sadly a store my husband goes to all the time is now putting a surcharge on what you buy, so we still love going in there but now we won't go in there till we have cash in his wallet or my purse. So we have...
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    January Competition: Win a Year's Membership to SDC Rewards

    I am not sure I could compete with anyone who has written why they feel it would be lovely to have a chance of winning a Membership to SDC Rewards. There seems to be more worthy people than myself. So instead I would like to say good luck to everyone who enters and I hope this year is better...
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    Start the New Year right with these must-know financial changes that will impact your budget

    It is all well and good to say pensions rise in March and September, I know I am lucky to live in a housing trust home with my family, however there are two disabled people in the house, one carer, me and my other daughter who works so not only are we paying full price for our rent which is fair...
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    Australian-born Princess Mary of Denmark to become the next Danish Queen after monarch’s shock abdication

    We don't know why Queen Margrethe II is really going to abdicate, it could be like Queen Beatrice to allow her son to be king at an age where he can do a lot more. I am a royalist and I think King Charles is a great person and King certainly a thinking man and like his father ahead of his time...
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    Crisis alert: TGA issues urgent warning about shortage of essential medicines

    Blaming the government for the shortage isn't fair, considering we have had issues with shortage of medications in the past and it wasn't under the present government. I know several who are on Ozempic for their diabetes that are unable to get any or are limited to the lower dose as the chemists...
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    Nearly 500,000 eligible residents and small businesses receive second round of state energy bill relief

    Getting the energy bill relief scheme has helped it was however the electricity company we are with that took its time getting the first payment off our bill but that now has been sorted. I hope it has helped many and can help many more.
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    Government plans to use NDIS purchasing power to help save billions – but they shouldn’t put products before people

    NDIS give a specific amount for the year as per the recipients needed plan, not all services take advantage of the NDIS recipient, but there are many that do, needed equipment ie: wheel chairs that need to be adjusted and suited to the person needing one is one aspect, speech, physio etc those...
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    December Competition: The Final Competition Of The Year!

    My favourite Christmas present was my blue bike when I was six, I had gone in for a heart operation when I was five and a half and although money was tight, my mother had saved and I would imagine shrimp to buy me a bike for Christmas. We had a coal shed in the courts where we lived, there...
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