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We did that comparison at our last property. It was going to take more than 11 years to start making it worth it. Our new property has solar and we looked at upgrading to a larger system. The solar company advised it wouldn’t save us much at all as it would take several years to break even.

You haven’t listed any SA locations. In SA if you don’t live near Adelaide then you don’t exist. We rarely visit a GP as the only ones in our town are 6 month waiting list and $100 visit. No bulk billing even on a low income health care card. We have to travel to the next big town who are also...

That’s because the money came from overseas. That they can track.

Never heard of this before. We were just below selling our house for $730,000. Now it’s any price. As long as it’s easy to do then I’m all for foreigners paying more tax.

If you receive a payment of $10,000 or more the bank might alert Centrelink. I know they notify the tax office if you get more than $10,000 from overseas. But you can definitely have more than $10,000 in the bank if your an aged pensioner.

Ours is the same. We have months with no bills then we’ll have rates and power bills ect all arrive at once. I reckon if you contacted Centrelink they would just say don’t worry about it. They are over understaffed and under the pump as is without every welfare recipient running to them with...

You have to tell them everything. Even if your partner isn’t claiming the pension too, all of their assets are included.

For the aged pension that is BS. Look up Services Australia for yourself.

Get real, who is going to sit on the phone or at Centrelink for hours to say, oh I bought a new TV that cost $1000 more than my 10 year old one. I’m pretty sure Centrelink aren’t that interested, they can’t even keep up with the current workload let alone recipients running to them every 5...

It’s $450,000 in assets for a couple (home owners) if one of you is on the FULL pension.

Not excusing the driver in any way but how about road markings at school zones as well as the street signs so they are clearly evident. School Speed Signs should be huge or on a different coloured back ground. In rural Vic where we lived they were just a small circle with the times written...

She must be constantly flaunting the law to be on her last demerit point. Serves her right! This story seems to be more about her birthday than losing her licence though.

That would require being called very sharp object with a point! Neither of which fits that idiot governor!

We had a brown snake near our back door. Called the nearest catcher, an hour and a half away! Said there was no point coming out as it would be gone by the time he arrived. But if we really wanted him to he would at a cost of $150. I was terrified of going out to my car or working in the garden...

Why hasn’t anyone realised if the Govt dropped some of the excise on fuel then transport of groceries and goods wouldn’t cost as much then prices might not continually rise. The pension increase of what…a pathetic $10 a week won’t even cover the increase in milk, bread, eggs, let alone council...

Councillors have no idea. They just look at numbers on a spreadsheet. Look at the Casey shire in Vic. Now charging a fortune for permits to keep a caravan, boat or just a trailer in your own back yard.One of our councillors wanted to stop Coles delivering groceries in our town because it might...

Yep, our waste transfer station has big signs saying you can’t take anything away. While we were unloading metal waste another resident was about to throw a beautiful screen art away. I asked if I could have it! The artwork of roses now sits on our garage outer wall! Would have been $80 in store!

Gee there’s some misery gutses on this page. Lighten up!

I agrée with it. We watched my poor dad for almost 24 hours while his body struggled between life and death. It was agony for all of us to sit by his bedside knowing he only had moments left. He was heavily dosed with morphine for the pain and oxygen as his lungs were gone. Onky those that...

Totally different scenarios. VAD is for terminally ill patients who are way past being cured. Usually in a lot of pain and being kept alive by machines and pain medication. You mother was well enough to collect the paracetamol and take them herself.