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    Delivery mishap spreads online, fueling debate: 'It's becoming a joke'

    I have no complaints about deliveries from Australia Post. It is the private companies who employ the worst drivers.
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    ‘Ten Pound Pom’ Hostel Living: The Tech Guy – Dr Al

    I think it was two weeks. I know it wasn't very long after the initial phone call asking us to fly which was turned down because we had no time to get organised. That is why we gave a lot of our things to people who needed them as there wasn't time to do otherwise.
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    SDC Trivia Game #669 - 25/03/2025

    I don't know which of our leaders sets these Questions but I think you had better vet them before giving them to us. Question 6 Plato is not a date! Questions 7 and 9 are the same question. Please get someone to sought these out next time before presenting them to the rest of us to answer.
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    Senior woman left 'deeply traumatised' after her last Woolworths visit

    Likewise when kids damage windows and break into houses as is happening to me, the parents should be held responsible for paying for the damage. No such luck! The law as it is at the moment does not hold the parents nor the children responsible. The 15 year old who with his gang recently...
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    Delivery mishap spreads online, fueling debate: 'It's becoming a joke'

    I had a packet that was supposed to be delivered to me and I was advised on line that it had been delivered. I was at home all day the day it was supposed to have been delivered but no one knocked the door nor did they ring the bell. Not only did I not receive it but when trying to find out...
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    Joke Wife Doesn’t Come Home

    Typical of most men, not all but most!
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    Aussie government announces changes to the federal budget! How can seniors benefit from it?

    And we will have an economy left in the red like the last Labour Government.
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    ‘Ten Pound Pom’ Hostel Living: The Tech Guy – Dr Al

    In 1966 I was a ten-pound pom and together with my husband and two children had a very mixed journey by ship. I first had a telephone call asking if we were ready to go in a matter of days by plane but as my husband worked in another part of the country and was away working and I had two...
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    BURGLAR IN MY HOUSE

    Can borrow her? I need a "Guard Dog" to stop the breakins and broken windows being inflicted upon my house!
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    Aussies boost retirement funds with $470,500 pension trick

    I am advised by an English friend who recently migrated to Oz that has not changed. You still get it when you reach the right age regardless of whether or not you are working. The reason is that you not only pay your income tax from your earnings but an amount is also taken from your pay...
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    Joke Dead End

    Logical really, Phil
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    WHY YOU NEED SPELLCHECK

    Another good one from mOiOz!
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    Aussies boost retirement funds with $470,500 pension trick

    Beware! I get an English Pension but at the time I started getting mine you had to have been living and working in the UK for 11 years, not 10. Also, if you declare it to the mob in Australia they will take some of your Australian Pension to compensate. I do not have a lot of assets to...
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    Joke EBay

    Clever Skipton. But don't lower the p rice, you must get what they are really worth!!
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    Sheb Woolley

    Sheb Woolley I still have a copy of that record The Purple People-Eater. I loved it!!
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    Joke Singing Frog

    Congratulations Luckyus, that one is exceptional!!
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    Fishing or.....

    Very Good Deni67
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    Residents demand immediate action as retirement dream turns into nightmare

    When my brother was dying o f cancer he moved to a village complex n a Sydney suburb where he bought the property. This consisted of a single unit. The village also provided other facilities depending on the progress of your illness. When my brother died his unit was sold and the money sent...
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    Joke Pulled Wool? 🐑

    Good One, very apt!
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