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    New budget proposal may put extra $2000 on Aussie households

    Talk about. Rubbish.. other articles I’ve recently seen, and had documentation to show the figures and back up comments.. clearly shows Australians are now one of the highest taxed countries in the world and our disposable income is falling..talk about fudge the information to make it seem we...
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    Royal couple's friend shares Prince William's and Princess Catherine's struggles amid cancer diagnosis

    Sorry the Princess of Wales if going through cancer treatment, but come on.. they will have the best of everything, the best doctors, the best available medication, the best of car. they won’t have to worry about the financial burden on their family, while she under goes treatment.., so many...
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    Grieving mother slams Centrelink’s ‘unfair’ rule: ‘It's very wrong’

    I had a full term stillborn baby.. centrelink never had any kind of payment to help us.. we just had to grieve and then get on with it.
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    Can Centrelink payment hikes boost music festival participation?

    So, what I said was if a kid decides to drop out of school, because they don’t like it, they go to centrelink, get the jobseeker Payment.. I’ve been working 40+ years paying taxes, I lost my job, too old to get employed at 60 to young for the aged pension 67. I have bills to pay insurances ...
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    Can Centrelink payment hikes boost music festival participation?

    If anything the jobseeker payment should be reduced for anyone under the age of 18.. then after 18.. increased marginally to help them go to work, pay for a car and fuel etc, make them genuinely look for work. why should someone who drops out of school at the age of 15/16 get exactly the same...
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    ALDI, IGA chiefs under Senate spotlight as inquiry delves into grocery costs

    How can Cole’s and woolies say they ‘denied engaging in price gouging, attributing higher store prices to increased production costs,’ they are not producing’ the fresh foods’, the farmers are!.. the farmers are being ripped off by theses supermarket chains… being paid a pittance for 'their'...
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    Time-of-use tariffs spark outrage as consumers allege they were left in the dark

    Where we live in Qld, we only have the option one 1 energy supplier.. Ergon.. that’s it.. they can do what they want to our prices and we can’t do anything about it..we put s9lar on to help with the Increased prices, at first we were banking a little bit, now we are just breaking even..the only...
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    Woolworths’ decision on iconic ANZAC Day tradition leaves veterans outraged: ‘It’s common courtesy’

    You would be surprised how many buy these tins.. you are quite wrong to say people didn’t even know they exist before this .. the money from these sales helps support RSL veterans..as do the Anzac badges..
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    Woolworths’ decision on iconic ANZAC Day tradition leaves veterans outraged: ‘It’s common courtesy’

    First they won’t celebrate or stock anything to do with Australia Day, now, big deal they will sell a few badges, but not the commerative biscuit tins. (other supermarkets sell ‘Anzac Biscuits, so that line is a cop out).. BUT the happily stocked and celebrated Chinese new year !!..
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    Advocates call for nationwide cash withdrawal to protest against potential cashless society

    Yep, I withdrew out cash yesterday as I do each fortnight, I pay cash as much as I can. What will happen if no cash t9 the kids pocket money, birthday money from nan and pa, the market where people try to supplement their income.. and a funny thought hit me the other day,…. two end of the...
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    Postage price peak: Australia Post's stamp prices soar as letter volumes plummet!

    I only found out yesterday about the concession price of stamps for card holders🥴🥴😂😂
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    Commonwealth Bank responds to outrage over app outage

    Hopefully alL these outages with banks, eftpos facilities and yesterday McDonald’s worldwide went down , will show people that full digital is not the way to go.. we need to use cash more and more to stop this digital everything coming in..
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    Massive cut on 500 tariffs could save Aussies money and reduce household expenses

    And you seriously think the supermarkets will pass on these cuts in tarrif taxes etc.. nope… but it will certainly help boost their final line though..
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    Service NSW will not provide phone support to the elderly-

    This is only going to get worse, if they allow digital everything to happen..
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