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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.

We live near Shepparton, and regularly grab some vanilla slice from there. It most definitely deserves the award! The shop's not much to look at, but the proof is in the eating.

You may not be lucky for long. Under Medicare rules, there is no mechanism to bulk-bill and charge anything extra, eg to cover the extra cost of a state levy. So clinics will almost certainly have to take one of 2 options. Stop bulk-billing so the extra $12-15 can be passed on to the patient...

Not sure why the brouhaha is supposedly limited to NSW. Every state has flagged this change. Victoria is worse, as payroll tax kicks in at a way lower limit, so pretty well every GP Clinic will be hit, not just the big ones. Health is GST exempt, & state taxes such as Payroll tax should also...