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    Important pension changes you need to know about starting July 1

    and once the Rental Allowance kicks in, for full Age Pensioners, that will be the time the Landlords up the rent. They should change the name of it to something less erroneous.
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    Submit your best riddle and go into the draw to win a $100 Coles, Woolies, ALDI or IGA voucher!

    If it takes a week to walk a fortnight. How many apples in a kilo of grapes?
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    The Official Bingo Thread!

    Seems this post created more questions than answers ...
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    What's hiding in your roast chicken? Woolworths customer shocked by 'toxic-looking' discovery - But is it safe?

    Passing off a lot of sub-standard products and experimenting with peoples taste buds seems to be the modus operandi of the supermarkets these day. So much tasteless crap on the shelves with prices up 100% if not more on last year.
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    Are you prepared for a shocking increase in electricity prices? Find out how it will impact your wallet!

    Conveniently no mention of Victoria which has the highest prices in Australia. TIME TO STOP GOVERNMENTS FROM SELLING OFF PUBLIC ASSESTS.!!!!!!!! When they do who gets hurt? YOU!!!!
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    Say Goodbye to Third Party Debt Collectors: Centrelink Takes Control with Major Overhaul!

    Good, perhaps now they'll get rid of these blood sucking third party Job centres and bring back the Commonwealth Employment Service. It was more efficient and placed a lot more people in jobs and not put people through useless 'training programs' that have very little or no outcome. They also...
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    Aussie mum left shocked by this little-known ALDI checkout rule

    Next you'll be refused services in a Bar/Bistro for having a child with you. It's time this whole new age, easily offended woke brigade went back to sleep. Yes. and that includes supermarkets who are expecting customers to fill the gap where employees once stood.
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    This parking rule cost a woman ‘nearly $900’: ‘I had no idea’

    Street and road planners have a lot to answer for. Whose stupid idea was it to put double lines down, what is obviously, a residential street?
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    Shoppers left scratching their heads after seeing this 'strange' item at the supermarket - Will you give this a try?

    My thoughts exactly when I first saw the packaging. Another manufacturer targeting children.
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    What's the big deal about the new Vegemite coin? Aussies are going wild over it!

    So when's the 'Chiko Roll' coin coming out?
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    Retirees are outraged by new changes that could leave them without enough income

    Originally set up as a perpetual fund paid for by a percentage (%) of workers wages, over and above tax, taken from weekly pay packets to fund it. This built up to a considerable amount and was then relegated to General Government Revenue and miraculously disappeared ... hence now being funded...
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    Retirees are outraged by new changes that could leave them without enough income

    Yes too many middle class over privileged paupers these days ...
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    Is your retirement at risk? Pensions take a turn in Australia

    There never is. It's always about retirees with pension funds and self funded retirees getting part pensions never about the totally reliant Age Pensioner. As for going back to work. There are a plethora of age pensioners who cannot work due to health, and who have been rejected for the DSP, or...
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    ALDI has come under fire for its latest pricing gaffe – can you spot what’s wrong?

    Woolworths has a similar problem 1kg Gourmet Tomato $7.70 per Kg 480g Gourmet Tomato $16.46 per Kg Displayed in the aisle right next to each other.
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    Big cash splash under the cost of living concession helps thousands of Australians

    Yes, would have been better for a lot of people if you had mentioned in the headline: "Big cash splash under the cost of living concession helps thousands of Australians living in SOUTH AUSTRALIA" instead of giving false hope to the pensioners who are struggling and who live elsewhere.
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    Woman blindsided with a $1000 fine for a ‘barely noticeable error’ – Are you guilty of doing it too?

    Short of the police going to her friend to find out who was in the passenger seat. I'm at odds as to how they identified the passenger and how they knew she had a license. After all they weren't pulled over. It was a traffic camera and fine in the post. Perhaps these 'traffic cameras' now have...
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    Is Australia the most expensive country in the world? American expat is SHOCKED by price of alcohol Down Under

    Not just alcohol also cigarettes, petrol, basic food, rent, gas, electricity, oil, coal, etc, etc... It seems like Australia is subsidising the rest of the world now ...
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    Traveller booted off Jetstar flight over 'miscommunication' with her suitcase: 'I will NOT be flying with them again'

    Had a stuff up with Jetstar in 2005 have never flown with them since and tell everybody who will listen ... Seems they frankly don't give a damn, Charlotte.
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    Lawyer explains why you should AVOID using supermarket self-serve checkouts

    I rather like the way the machines greet you. They ask if you'd like a receipt, inform you your reward card has been added, thank you for shopping when you finish you purchase. When people chat back to the self-serve machine then we're in trouble ...
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