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Why would a small business require an exemption? I'd have thought they (& us) need protection from the card issuers cranking up the fees once cash is gone.

Taiwan.

I am with HESTA, a large company focussing on the health sector, & they are hopeless to contact & deal with. The guts of the problem is that they think it's their money. And they don't want us taking it. I have had to retire due to a cognitive decline & I am at an age I can have access. My...

The simple answer is that the benefits far outweigh the theoretical harms - & by a massive degree. We have a FDA which would remove them from chemist shelves if this was seriously an issue. Even if these harms were beyond doubt, because they are in fact so rare, most people would still choose...

Came across them in Coffs Harbour by accident. Didn't realise how widespread they are becoming. They are very, very good!

This story/case been going over 12 months now & I have seen several articles elsewhere where more detail is given. Apparently the gentleman wrote the Salvos out of his will following the Royal Commission into Institutional Child Abuse when adverse findings were reported about certain Salvation...

This is not new. As a former GP I was advising parents to not use talcum on their baby girls 30 years ago, but the message just wasn't getting traction through to consumers.

You write, "Currently, there's no Australia-wide standard for assessing the driving capabilities of older individuals." Indeed there are national guidelines for fitness to drive covering most medical conditions. See...

Not sure where these "rubbery figures" come from. RACGP trainee numbers was NOT just 88 in 2023. Perhaps that is the increase from 2023 to 2024? Still half of the number of GPs retiring or walking away. And as for the line, "Medicare payments for doctors who bulk-billed standard consultations...

"For those who have already downloaded the myVicRoads or Services Victoria app, the transition will be seamless." Took them more than a month & several online & phone contacts to get my Seniors Card & WWCC to show, & I already had the app (in fact at their advice, updated & reloaded the app...

"Services Australia". Now there's a contradiction in terms if ever there was one. The wait is not an accident. It is deliberate policy to make people just go away, which saves the government money. Heartless.

Our government-mandated, monopoly insurer, aka Medicare, is an underinsurance scam. The government take our Medicare levy (& other taxes) and give less of it back (in patient rebates to providers) every year. No one has a right to demand a private business take a loss just to make a...

You can't take it with you, so why not pay something if the result is improved care and conditions? The whole purpose of super was to spend it when you're aged.