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One year, I decided to buy my mother-in-law a cemetery plot as a Christmas gift... The next year, I didn't buy her a gift. When she asked me why, I replied, "Well, you still haven't used the gift I bought you last year!" And that's how the fight started.

That's why you'll only get 8 days of the increase!

If you read the beginning of this article, you'll see "Single pensioners, disability pensioners and carers will receive an extra $37.50 each fortnight" The first payment will only be a a part because it starts on the 20th March

If you read the beginning of this article, you'll see "Single pensioners, disability pensioners and carers will receive an extra $37.50 each fortnight" The first payment will only be a a part because it starts on the 20th March

In addition to my previous thoughts on this, I think that as the cost of living has been increasing every week and all the government is doing is giving a "snapshot increase". Below is a chart showing what a fortnightly cost of living increase looks like to achieve the sum being "given" next...

And that's when the fight started My wife and I were watching Who Wants To Be A Millionaire while we were in bed. I turned to her and said, 'Do you want to have sex?' 'No,' she answered. I then said, 'Is that your final answer?' She didn't even look at me this time, simply saying, 'Yes.' So...

Here are the Age pension percentage increases year to year, the increase calculated at the end of the period, i.e. March, and includes the September increase. So this coming increase is well below the 10.1% the ABS considers to be the cost of living increase for the year...

There is a problem with this indexation process. The pensions (etc) are increased to bring them up to the current cost of living. However, the cost of living and other impositions have been increasing since the last rise in benefits. So, there have been six months of additional costs to the...

I'm well over 60, on the Pension, and now my surgery has ceased bulk-billing, I'm out of pocket by $25 each visit. As I currently have a treatment that requires weekly visits, $25 per week is a bitter pill to swallow and so I now have to swallow less or cheaper food.

"The retailers are said to be pouring in $1 million each for the joint undertaking." "Pouring" is a bit of an overstatement when compared to their massive profits

A couple of weeks ago, I shopped at Kmart for one item and then had to stand in a long (almost Xmas-like) queue to pay. 3 self-serve registers weren't working and there was only only one staff member at the cashier check-outs. I left the item I was going to buy beside the pay area and walked...

When my mother died last year, my brother, who was her carer, was a bit shattered and was in Covid isolation and not in any state to try to communicate by phone so I told him to hang on while I went to Centrelink. I provided all the necessary details like CRNs etc to the Centrelink staff and...

I, too, am sorry to point out, Nana, that that you spelt "vigilant" incorrectly

Please, there is no way I'd ever want to be "virulent"

I didn't know almonds have udders or teats!

I'm 76 and haven't taken any painkiller since the early 1990s so I really wouldn't have any questions for the doctor. Maybe he'd like to ask me a few?

How are they expecting to police this?

I'm sure I wouldn't want to "COMPETE"!

Trouble with washing before putting them in the fridge, moisture promotes rot if you don't dry thoroughly. I remove veg like carrots from their pack and rub them with a paper towel before putting them into a dry container lined with paper towel in the fridge. With lettuce, I remove leaves that...