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    Groundbreaking home trick promises faster cheaper builds: 'Players need to embrace it'

    $130 electricity?? do you really think any electricity co is going to let that happen (it can happen ) but itWONT electricity is priced at what one can GET for it nothing to do with its cost. One needs to understand the govt thinks of us as CUSTOMERS and we need to pay for that privelidge (we...
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    Buried in the fine print: The landmines banks don’t want you to see

    nothing will happen...........its australia
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    AI out, humans in? After outcry, the Commonwealth Bank abandons contentious plan

    I thought AI eliminated human employment.....wasnt that the motive, seems to have worked already...
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    Payments jump delivers welcome financial relief for pensioners

    the govt is still struggling over the difference between PENSION and WELFARE....they think they're the same.....we are just ungrateful it seems
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    Payments jump delivers welcome financial relief for pensioners

    every time we get a rise, it is wiped out by one or two grocery products, my last rise was wiped out on one product (Coles crumpets) from $1.20 to $2.40 x2=$4.60 great , unfortunately the other shopping in my basket also increased by similar ,so I let the crumpets go and suffered the increase...
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    Auto-tipping is creeping into Aussie dining—fair reward or sneaky fee?

    the restaurant obviously doesn't want repeat business, they would only catch me once. should we also tip the person that sells us a train ticket or makes us a sandwich or cleans the room after a night s accomodation or opens a door for me it cheeses me off paying $60 for a steak and 8.00 for a...
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    Politicians want to tax inheritances again! Shouldn’t retirees have a say first?

    he's never had a job in his life ....yep he's all for the worker
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    Politicians want to tax inheritances again! Shouldn’t retirees have a say first?

    my mate down the pub agrees ....but as he says "I always vote labor' and thats what happens ,,yes we get the govt we deserve...its the same for libs too its just thoughtless unthinking votes
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    Politicians want to tax inheritances again! Shouldn’t retirees have a say first?

    so your saying ...im alright jack........what are you going to say when $300000 isa months pay??
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    Politicians want to tax inheritances again! Shouldn’t retirees have a say first?

    whatever you have accumulated when you die has ALLREADY BEEN TAXED,it is wrong to tax again just because the taxpayer is dead what's left behind is rightly passed on to next of kin or as directed.......talk about greed!!!
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    Missing out on big savings? Discover how one simple switch cuts thousands from power bills

    once everyone is changed over you will see the new charges will shock you, its like the payment for your solar after you shelled out for the panels (which will need to be replaced periodically ..not at special rates)...when enough folk get the solar,electric,etc the new rates will put us right...
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    ACCC to investigate energy plans that promise savings but deliver poor value

    the changes in rates are only good for the next bill ,shortly after one receives the bill its followed by a note advising of an increase (we need to change every 3 months to a different company because the discount rates apply for the customers they DONT have and once got they send a...
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    Your age pension could drop by $203 a fortnight: Major deeming rate changes hit 460,000 Australians

    until people become swinging voters (that is on performance )not like a football team , we will always have a crappy govt that looks after themselves and we love it ...we sure have the govt that we deserve...
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    Shoppers face new safety fears amid surge in armed robberies

    I suppose when they get caught, they might get a very stern warning about stealing ......golly gosh
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    ‘This isn’t respect’: Veterans question club’s Armistice Day gesture

    SO it's about MONEY.....anything for a dollar...lest we forget is a statement, so is 'it's a nice day today' ok to register ? and stop people from saying it what about" g'day mate' can I register that and make a dollar...that RSL needs to get a new boss, preferably an older ex serviceman that...
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