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Yes, I know the article said Qantas paid them but my comment was ‘addressed at the couple’ in a way for commenting in the first place when they had already been paid out. Another one wanting to whinge about their treatment although it was already resolved.

There is a lot of food labelled ‘Australian Made’ but where do the ingredients or the main ingredients come from? That’s what we need to check before buying if we want to be safe.

Think twice, maybe even three times!!! There are a lot of catches in buying into so-called ‘retirement villages’ and retirement/seniors apartments. You need a darned good financial advisor just to read and understand the written jargon (and it will cost you a bit also for the advice). Exit...

Start with the government cracking down on the rorting by providers of products for NDIS receivers. Costs for products provided by NDIS I have heard about (my brother’s son was a receiver of assistance) is absolutely ridiculous. The rorting by providers of products through this system should be...

If they somehow got the first email from Qantas why could they not reply by email instead of having to ‘call’ Qantas from a place that had no phone coverage they could access? If the next ‘typo’ was Qantas’ error then Qantas should be liable for every cent and ALL expenses this couple says they...

Yep. That would be fees like ‘body corporate’ fees in units. Nothing comes for nothing.

I’m pretty sure ‘common sense’ would tell you you need to tap on AND tap off for the correct fare to be charged.

They may be paying for power in the form of feed-in tariffs but not in extra ‘out-of-pocket cash’. We also do not pay any extra ‘cash’ for power since installing solar panels. I have commented further on this topic elsewhere.

We installed solar power (8 panels on the north, 6 panels on the west and 3 marginally larger panels solely for hot water system), when there were incentives offered by the Queensland government. We haven’t paid one single bill since then and also get a rebate for feed-in tariff every year in...

Saying it is revenue raising - in a way ‘yes’. But where do we all think money comes from to provide the services we need? We pay taxes (revenue??) for services, water, sewerage, repair of roads, etc., etc., etc. I have said it before on this site - the government (councils, state and federal)...

Absolutely correct - some places have their specials in combination with a barcode which reveals to (vigilant) staff on cash registers that the item scanned is not what the barcode reads.

Sitting here enjoying articles and comments on this site. I have a heavy cold but that isn’t deterring me.

It will be extremely hard to police higher demerit points (or higher fines for the wealthy) and it is a very hard decision to make. I do agree with you, to a point, on the demerit points issue but we need to be much, much, MUCH stricter with issuing licences in the first place - another hard...

My question - how will the authorities decide who can and who cannot afford to pay a fine? One could be earning well over $200,000 but might have huge debts as well. Difficult, in my opinion, to police.

Absolutely agree. I said pretty much the same thing in my post on this subject.

Far too many new ‘seniors and retirement’ residences are being touted as ‘apartments with a view of the river or the beach’ - on floor xxx ? I am constantly commenting to my husband “what happens in the event of a fire and one cannot take the lift to get down?” Can you imagine an elderly person...