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    Is your bank overcharging you? Discover surprising new fees for customers!

    Actually I use Move bank and their rates are inline with lenders rates and as for service over the phone- attentive , helpful, caring, responsive, fast service, will do what you request if it is within their power and nothing is too great that cannot be resolved to both satisfaction.--instant...
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    Is your bank overcharging you? Discover surprising new fees for customers!

    would love to but the sad reality is Banks are banks and they all have the same objective --to rob you blind
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    Is your bank overcharging you? Discover surprising new fees for customers!

    Not yet you don't, but if we all do not get up in anger, you will be in the future
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    Is your bank overcharging you? Discover surprising new fees for customers!

    what scaremongering is that-The fact that after the furor dies down, they will reimpose the fee-The CBA only put it on hold and did not do away with it at all
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    Is your bank overcharging you? Discover surprising new fees for customers!

    A Bendigo Bank spokesperson has stated, 'Importantly, these changes will result in a net reduction in fees paid by our customers.' What the spokesperson never mention is the fact that it will increase the profit margin by hundreds of millions of dollars. Interest paid on saving accounts is so...
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    This critical Medicare update affects millions of Aussies—are you prepared?

    would be good if the app worked as planned but the idea is to make it impossible to contact medicare so they can reduce the staff.
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    This critical Medicare update affects millions of Aussies—are you prepared?

    How wonderful of Medicare to reduce call hours I wanted to verify my details as per a letter I received so , I place a phone call and was told - Due to the high number of calls, your call be wait time is 15 minutes---exactly 1 hour later I terminated the call as the battery on the home phone...
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    Economist proposes controversial change to superannuation: ‘It’s a really ugly mark’

    An independent economist, Cameron Murray of Fresh Economic Thinking,-- just another word for a paid LNP mouth piece. The LNP have been trying ever since the ALP bought in super to get the funds out of Union control and into the hands of the financial sector like the banks . When this paid...
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    'I simply clicked the link': Man shares how one email put his Centrelink payments at risk

    I use this simple check- when I receive an e-mail from any body, I ALWAYS see who the sender is It is right there in the from line with the receiver as the second line So if it has me@gooblygook 123zy and it supposed to be from say Telstra, or MyGov or QLD Main roads Then I apply the simple...
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    See how new bank fees could drain your account with every withdrawal!

    so many comments about noting new and whingers, FACT --it is our money -not the banks and service is a thing of the past Fact-- there is more money wasted on paying the CEO and board members than what it costs to transport cash--Fact -the banks encouraged us to use hole in the walls , plastic...
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    Australia Post hints at price jumps for several services

    the one very important fact that people miss is this-- Aust Post is not a private business but is in fact the old post office which was a government run operation to provide a service to all Australians-- It doesn't have to make a colossal profit as it is a public service. Now that doesn't mean...
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    Australia Post hints at price jumps for several services

    the management whine and complain about a loss and then do everything to make it worse and use that bigger loss to make it even worse Raise the price of stamps and then whinge that people are not posting letters any more- surprise Now stop every day letter delivery- so people can't see the...
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    'Absolute madness': Can this city-wide speed limit proposal slow locals down?

    absolute bloody madness-- We have cars not bloody horses and carriages Slow speed creates frustration and that is a primary cause of accidents and road rage Pedestrians are more often than not, responsible for the accidents because they are on phones, just step out with the expectations the...
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    This possible road rule overhaul may force you to change your driving habits ASAP!

    There is an element of truth in this comment-- the speed limit a long time ago in the NT was what your vehicle design was capable of doing safely. It was unlimited but if you had a souped up fraud and was clocked at 200 kph, the engineered car was safe at 150kph so you were speeding If you...
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    This possible road rule overhaul may force you to change your driving habits ASAP!

    This line of thinking is not the solution for one very obvious reason The speed limit is 100kph the governor clicks in at 100kph as you propose Now you are doing your legal 100KPH and come up behind a car doing 90KPH you have clear way for the next 2klm to pass so you stick in the boot , get...
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    Local expresses outrage over council's 'eco-friendly' billing approach: 'The public was not consulted'

    where is the petition so that I can sign it as well-- people in authority have this fantastic notion that because they have a cell phone every one else is computer literate--what a dream land they live in. If the councils want to cross over to E-mail accounts, fine but why should people who do...
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    Major Aussie bank cuts interest rates on savings accounts: New conditions leave savers scrambling

    Bloody blood thirsty parasitic banks are into the greed file again They take YOUR saving and loan them out at ridiculous interests rates, pay them selves and their investors hefty dividends and then have the gall to turn around and claim that because things are tough and YOU are not supplying...
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    Parking perils: Aussie drivers face hefty fines in confusing tow-away zones

    There are no such things as sudden appearing parking regulations --just more morons ignoring them because so many others do parking on the wrong side of the road, parking across foot paths, reversing out of properties, driving down the wrong side to enter a property, opening a car door in front...
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