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To help you with you math, Campos: House price in 2025. $700,000 Doubled in 7 years = $1.4 mil in 2032 Doubled again in 7 years = $2.8 mil in 2039 Doubled again in 7 years - $5.6 mil in 2046 Doubled again in 7 years = $11.2 mil in 2053 Doubled again in 7 years = $22.4 mil in 2060 That's only 35...

I think you need a fact check. Firstly, I DID NOT say superannuation was only for the rich. I said it was designed as a tax dodge for the wealthy, and it was, and it has been used that way to huge effect, at great cost to the rest of the community. Certainly, it has benefited workers who would...

The biggest issue for me is the shocking 'regulators' who constantly say 'just check the tradie has a license and report if they don't' and claim be doing 'crackdowns' on unlicensed tradies. But the licensed dodgies can do as they please. The regulators are so lazy and corrupt. Licensed builders...

Perhaps they meant that he talked about getting the pension. Or maybe they saw him go to the bank to withdraw it? Or maybe they saw him flashing a pension card to claim discounts or free doctor visits, etc.

I agree and sympathise. I know of someone who was required to go to an interview at Centrelink and was faced with a 22 year old just out of uni, dripping expensive jewellery, who laughed at him and then wrote a report saying he didn't 'appear' to have any disability. An appeal failed...

Yet I know two who got through the assessment and are also on NDIS, with nothing wrong with them at all except the lazy gene. And I reported one - who was also lying about assets - but got a response from her solicitor threatening me. Centrelink did not investigate to my knowledge.

Home insurance proved a nightmare for us when we moved into a home clad with the most advanced and now very popular new home cladding - rendered EPS. It is fire proof, amazingly robust and impact resistant, cheap to repair or replace, water resistant, termite proof, and has a very high...

Commercial operators, yes! If they are using the venue to make money, why shouldn't they pay? They would have to lease premises otherwise. Family gatherings, charities and not-for-profits, NO. Ratepayer-funded facilities are there for the people. And the people should be able to use them...

I wanted to do this on our 50th anniversary. Our wedding was lovely, but rushed due to hubby's military posting and low budget. I borrowed everything I wore except a blue garter and my pantyhose! I told my younger daughter, when she was planning her wedding, that my one regret about our wedding...

What you say is very valid, and it's true that a policeman's job is extremely challenging. But while I would never use the word 'pigs', I do understand why some people condemn police. I have been in situations where I genuinely needed their protection or assistance and they failed dismally...

But if she gets a lift, she still has to wear a seat belt and she or the driver is liable to a fine if the camera captures her without it correctly positioned, so she gains nothing - except to maybe jeopardise thee friend she asks to give her a lift.

I agree with most of your comments - and especially the last. But I question the cost of appealing a case in court. It's often more costly than just copping the fine. And a medical exemption is of limited use fighting a camera, unless you are willing to take it to court. I think that is the...

I can't agree. it's not necessary 'can't wear a seat belt'. It may be, as in my case many years ago, 'can't wear a seat belt the way regulations require'. I wore a seatbelt, but I had to have fairly generous padding between the breast and the belt and the belt had to be a bit looser than...

Not all injuries that make wearing a seat belt hazardous impact driving ability. But, in any case, passengers have to wear belts also. There are fines if passengers are wearing incorrectly. So are you suggesting an injured party can't ride in a car - even if they need to go to a doctor or hospital?

The statement "There was no reason for anybody not to wear their seatbelt correctly" is just ill-informed rubbish. Long time ago now, and seat belt laws were not particularly strong at the time, but after the birth of my babies, I had infections in the breast and there was no way I could wear...

There are fines for passengers not wearing belts correctly too. So is someone with an injury not allowed to go anywhere - even if they need to be transported to a hospital or doctor? And there are certainly injuries that make wearing a seat belt in exactly the right manner harmful but that do...

That's not correct. There are regulations and they are put in place for a reason. Vehicles - whether registered or not - cannot be parked where they cause a safety risk or obstruct legitimate walking or driving traffic, block lawful access, etc. Look at the photo. The caravan is parked on a...

Unfortunately for the 2/3rds of the population who did not give Labor any mandate, it seems it only takes 1/3rd to vote Labor to authorise Labor to destroy the nation. The problem, I guess, was that many of the 2/3rds with brains didn't want the LNP in power either, because they are Labor-lite...

I recently wrote a very stern letter to the management of our local Bunnings store. I should have reported them. Two people brought dogs into the cafe and had them on their laps petting them while waiting for food. Then they got up and handled all the cutlery that other people have to use -...

Oh yes! They are dumbing the population down, and sadly they are succeeding very well. They are also driving division - race against race, younger generations against older (how sick is it that they are feeding this myth that the Boomers had everything handed to them on a platter and are...