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    Had to laugh at your profile name, my husband, raised in London, uses it all the time to enquire...

    Had to laugh at your profile name, my husband, raised in London, uses it all the time to enquire "How much"when I want to buy something, although over the years he has shortened it to just Emma!
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    State makes groundbreaking move to Triple Zero emergency calls

    Thank you for that, most states offer services for seniors to help with tech stuff, some are free and easy to access some not so much, the seniors have to want the knowledge to take advantage of the services available, some are easily confused and not aware of the help on offer and others are...
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    State makes groundbreaking move to Triple Zero emergency calls

    No disrespect is intended but your post is a little confusing, I sympathise with your issues with mobile phones, my smart phone is very nuch smarter than I am and I find using it very problematic, when all I want to do with it is make phone calls, not use it to access the internet, I use my...
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    Tomato troubles: Veggie virus threatens to squash Australia's multi-billion-dollar industry

    Love IT Cannot wait for chapter 2 of the story
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    Check with your friends via phone if you get a strange request from them on your computer for Apple ITune cards

    People need to realise that Scamming and scammers is a major industry, they send out hundreds sometimes thousands of emails or text messagess in the hope of just getting one idiot to respond to them, emails from any address that you do not know or phone number not in your contacts need to be...
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    Petrol prices set to increase over the weekend in major areas

    as usual it is apparently yet another government plot!!
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    Tomato troubles: Veggie virus threatens to squash Australia's multi-billion-dollar industry

    What I find so amazing is the speed in which the "tin foil Hat Brigade"will blame the government and anyone else that they can think of for something as simple as a virus capable of destroying food products the previous comment about there being no such thing as a virus that can destroy...
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    Farmers' 'risky' shift threatens shortages at your favourite supermarkets!

    There are 2 phrases that alert me to the fact that the writer has "fallen down the rabbit hole" the first one being "They"as in say or said ',Just who are "They" ? The Second one is being told to "do my homework" which I suppose means school myself in the same facts as the person writing the...
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    Lung cancer treatment Tecentriq now available on Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme

    Thank you I wish you luck also, my diagnosis of Lung Cancer was not my first fight, I beat bowel Cancer 2 years ago only to be told that I NOW had lung cancer late last year, so here we go again. surgery was not an option this time around so the usual umpteen rounds of Chemo and Radiation...
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    Lung cancer treatment Tecentriq now available on Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme

    Sounds good but there is a strong BUT here, Immunotherapy drugs are not suitable for every one who has any form of cancer. a certain protein in the blood of every cancer patient has to be present in order for an immunotherapy drug to help or work, I have the deadliest form of lung cancer which...
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    Signs, Signs, & More Signs !!

    None of the trainees will be learning anything , they cannot get past the sign!
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    A Bizarre Scam

    Well bugger me, I feel so left out, the only emails that I receive are from African Princes telling me that if I send them X amount they can reward me with millions or they just want to marry me (Yeah No ) and the ones informing me of an imposibly large inheritance from family members I have...
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    Cottage Pie With A Twist

    try telling the Scots that they are English !!
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    Aussie woman warns about 'buy-now-pay-later' schemes: 'It was a shocking wake-up call'

    BNPL services are a trap mainly used by people who have spending habits that are larger than their income, if any of these people applied for a credit card from one of the banks their application would be refused, it is a common misconception that with BNPL services you do not pay as much...
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    Final chapter? Online retail giant faces tough times and customer uncertainty

    i have been an avid book worm since early childhood when my dad put a book into my hands for the first time. I was around 3 or 4 and obviously could not read but very soon taught myself so that I could read what all the pictures in the books were about and I have never stopped, anything with...
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    Revolutionizing Family Time: Discover How Sweden's 'World First' Policy Could Benefit YOUR Family!

    I would not be holding my breath waiting for the Australian government of any stripe to be implementing this Swedish government policy, it is far too progresive for Australia and far too easy to be rorted, none of our government run social departments , (think center link and the ndis veteran...
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    Insider report reveals secret behind one Royal's frequent hospital visits

    Most of us on SDC have been around long enough to remember the hysteria caused by the gutter press and their constant reporting around Princes Diana and her life as a current or previous member of the Royal family. Are we going to do the same thing to the young woman who has become her daughter...
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    Final chapter? Online retail giant faces tough times and customer uncertainty

    I have been buying books from Booktopia for years and was quite upset when they supposedly sold the business sometime last year, I must have misunderstod at the time As I believed they had been purchased by Amazon as all books were being delivered from Australia, not the UK as before when I...
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    Is your internet bill about to skyrocket? Here’s why 69 per cent of homes could be affected

    Access to reliable internet is a bone of contention for most people living in Regional OZ, we do not have cable or telephone wired NBN where we live and only have internet access through "Fixed Wireless"nor do we have access to different speed tiers, it is what it is, often slow but mostly...
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    Power up your savings: Aussie state’s electrifying new relief package shocks bills down!

    there is just no way of pleasing every one, we are all being given credit on our electricity accounts the amount of credit being given depends on which state we live in. Queensland is being given a $1300.00 credit in total $1000.00 from their state government and $300.00 from the federal...
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