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My first question is to ask why the family are not yet Australian Citizens - yet they seem to be expecting the Australian taxpayers to fund their treatment.

Maybe I misread the article : as I see it, she has the right to sell the home, provided she or the buyer remove it from the caravan park. Which severely devalues her home! There's also the problem: should the cancer treatment prove effective (and everyone I've known with pancreatic cancer...

I wonder how many of the "accidental" overdoses are actually accidental.

The article forgot to mention hydatids

Mindless stupidity! Where is the 'fun' in causing disruption? I think people need to prove themselves mature enough to get a license (of any sort). Those two people have certainly failed to do that.

The only unusual activity on my Facebook account is that I get emails saying somebody has logged in on an unrecognised machine in the vicinity of Darwin (usually). If they have, they've managed to do so at exactly the same time I logged in as usual on this confuser in Tumby Bay. Google...

Sounds more like a sneezed cheese

5G Coverage in regional Australia? Doesn't exist. And I'm not even remote!

Aged care is yet another symptom of our failing health system. It's also a symptom of the problems with federalism and "states rights". Aged care is a federal responsibility, I believe. Yet the states have to provide the facilities. Duplication of effort, poor co-ordination of programs...

I think most councils have restrictions on parking vehicles on the naturestrip - after all, it is council land. We've always made sure we had somewhere off road to park up our caravan - it's easy with the Cropped Crusader, but when we had a reasonably large van it was still stored off road...

The problem with computers - and AI - remains: garbage in, garbage out. If "Mitchell" is a bad word, so is "shellfish", (Oysters kilpatrick served in their own s****?), "Shelley" (makers of handyman consumables), "grass" (either because of the 'ass', i.e. donkey - I a Australian. I...

1. It really is important to remember pet ownership is a privilege, not a right: any pet ownership. 2. People who have issues with dogs should not go to any pet-friendly venue. The wowser who dobbed La Bottega in is one of those people who have to make life miserable for anyone not abiding...

It's obvious work needs to be done - but surely it would be quicker and easier (and a LOT cheaper) to simply remove the hedge and plant a new one further back - or replant with a tier of low-growing shrubs in front, taller at the back... The removed hedge can be mulched up to provide mulch...

No way. I've got an 'esk' that's at least 30 years old, probably more. I bought some ice one day - and three days later still had icy cold water in the esky. Okay, it was cool weather and very hard frozen ice. The esky is still a lot more efficient than any newer models I've tried.

I never thought of beef as a risk of deforestation - cattle are grazers, not browsers, and can be run in woodlands. In fact, in the Australian summer it is probably better that they are run where there is some shade! The deforrestation - the clearing of brigalow scrub in Queensland - is...

I've always used it as "clowning around" - having fun mucking around instead of getting on with the job.

At least the author of the article acknowledges the problem is not the shortages of ambulances, but the shortage of hospital beds and hospital staff! It's about time the politicians realised this instead of commissioning more ambulances to ramp...