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    Prices Are Exploding! Are You Prepared to Give Up This Essential Australian Grocery Item?

    Low cholesterol anything is garbage. Cholesterol is one of the bodies most needed substances. Too low and it causes so much grief. Liver makes it everyday otherwise we would not survive. Ditch the junk margarine with all the chemicals and go back to butter. Best there is no matter the cost
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    Are pensions not enough? Recent study shows startling statistics about retirement

    Must admit we are doing okay but now wonderful. The pension is not keeping up with the cost of living. Anyone renting is behind the eight ball as well. Personal opinion, for anyone who has to rent there should be government housing both built and bought in much greater numbers solely for...
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    Face value: New technology changes checkout game, but can face privacy hurdles Down Under

    Not sure on the makeup and aging but I sure do know it can be abused by organisations for their own gain. Also the two step authentication has worked so far. Sick of their overlord attitude
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    Ask Joy: I think someone I know needs a little help.

    Okay I think you could go through your doctor. Get them to request an ACAT assessment. This is particularly if your health circumstances have changed. My husband had a stroke and he got an ACAT assessment before he left hospital and another one when he applied for aged care. I don't think there...
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    Ask Joy: I think someone I know needs a little help.

    Actually this isn't quite accurate. I did the online questionnaire and I didn't qualify but I would if I got an ACAT assessment. Also the forget to tell you that some of us will pay a co payment if we have "earnings" including defence superannuation. This co payment in my husbands case is $70+...
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    Is your beef contributing to deforestation? Woolies promises greener future with its bold pledge!

    The policy will cover fresh beef, paper, pulp, timber, palm oil, cocoa, and soy sold in its stores. So fresh beef is an issue. I see the rest as an issue. Cattle can graze on land not suitable to grow anything and keep the undergrowth down so there is less fires or less serious fires. All...
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    Disease robs football legend of speech and self-care, leading to his death at 65

    This is so sad. And it seems the Parkinsons goes hand in hand with dementia in many cases. Head knocks we now know can cause to much damage but it doesn't rear it's ugly head till years later. I have my own opinions on causes and treatments but it needs to be dealt with quickly. We have to...
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    The truth about supermarket meat that will make you want farm-to-plate today!

    No not true. The regenerative farming is the best. The animals graze on what they are supposed to eat. They can graze where you can't grow plants. Also there isn't a need for chemicals and the "poo" becomes the fertiliser for the soil. It also retains moisture in the soil when there is grazing...
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    The truth about supermarket meat that will make you want farm-to-plate today!

    Agree, the cost is prohibitive for many. I'm the same I like to buy certain cuts not what comes in the box and when you make up your own box it's more expensive
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    Double trouble: Health experts issue warnings about two rapid virus outbreaks happening worldwide

    Guess you woke up in the wrong era. Proven the jabs don't work, make people sick and also die. Food chain is stuffed but people still eat the crap. Prefer medicine over real healing. Believe sunscreen works. Believe climate change is real, it isn't. Believe the government knows better than us...
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    Double trouble: Health experts issue warnings about two rapid virus outbreaks happening worldwide

    yeah and what about all the people who died from them. The list is getting longer and people who didn't take the shots aren't sick yet. Too many I know of who got sick from the shots and those poor athletes who drop dead on the playing field. Wait till they force people to have them against...
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    Double trouble: Health experts issue warnings about two rapid virus outbreaks happening worldwide

    They will never pass while you keep thinking it's real. This is a con. Not many sick with whatever it is but they start the panic. Fear is the key, sell more medicine. Just stop eating junk food, get out into the sunshine morning and late afternoon without sunscreen, walk in nature and you will...
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    Surging aged care prices create unexpected living costs—find out why!

    Yep they have the idea the baby boomers are all rich but not all of us got to put money away or got stacks of money from our parents to live on
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    Surging aged care prices create unexpected living costs—find out why!

    Yeah it's really odd. Hubby has a level 3 package but we pay a co payment as we only get a part pension and he also has a defence pension that is considered income. They keep changing stuff around and you get it once then it's gone. There needs to be some sort of level ground. What constitutes...
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    Surging aged care prices create unexpected living costs—find out why!

    Yeah it's a bit crazy. We paid tax all our working life and now only get part pension as hubby was in the defence forces and the pension from that is considered income/
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    Surging aged care prices create unexpected living costs—find out why!

    Part of the reason I won't get an aged care package is because hubby has a defence pension which is considered income, we only get a part aged pension. So we pay a co payment each fortnight. We could not afford two of us paying the co payment. Just crazy. Nothing makes sense anymore unless you...
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    Is King Charles III ready to share updates about his condition? Palace insiders weigh in

    Trying to look normal when they are not. Just a ploy to pretend sympathy with the general population and try to be seen as "normal". I feel for everyone suffering from this condition. It is a money making condition and the royals are just pushing the treatments that cost so much money. I believe...
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    Tomato troubles: Veggie virus threatens to squash Australia's multi-billion-dollar industry

    Yep already got high tomato prices and now this. Just a money grab. Also as viruses don't exist they are just making it up or putting bacteria into the tomato plants or soil to produce this crap. Feel for the poor fatmers
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    'I wouldn't mind living on an island for a while': Aussie retiree reveals his dream lifestyle worth $18,000 a year

    If you stay well it's fine but many places in Asia don't have the medical facilities to cope with any serious situations as is proven in a couple of news items lately. I suffered from a serious issue when I had my last child, admittedly over 40 years ago but thankfully I had a great Aussie...
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    Health officials reveal one often overlooked household task that could put homes at risk for Legionnaires' disease

    I doubt it but check on the net. Mostly it is in foods. Which is why it don't eat many plants.
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