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    Proposed bill aims to fine businesses and individuals up to $25,000 for refusing cash payments

    Yes I do, as long and coins and notes are legal tender retail have to accept it.
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    Australians’ impatient road manners drive this expat crazy!

    I must agree, Aussie driver are really bad, impatient and can not Merge. The wife and I have driven in so many countries including Italy Hong Kong Bali and there is method in thier madness. We get home here WA and hate it, even the other states drive better than WA drivers.
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    Family sues a restaurant in federal court over $364 lobster dinner!

    Sorry it is their fault, you just don't get up leave you tell them what the problem. The way they acted they brought all of this on themselves. If your not happy say so.. walking out is just plain ignorance and stupidity
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    Qantas passenger's 'entitled' behaviour sparks fierce debate

    I do agree the arm rest is open slather first in best rest, I do argue the size of people does come into it. Big shoulders you have no choice. Airlines have to stop the seat shrinkage
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    Restaurants now charge for bringing your own cake! Could this impact your next dining out experience?

    I think is fare, you expectvt use the restaurant's cutlery, their time to serve washup. You need to pay, and then when you hear staff demand crazy wages for just pickup plates someone has to pay
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    Tired of Folding Laundry? Try This Clever Tip!

    My mum taught me that when I was very young. Also how to cook, sew, knit even use a sewing machine. You'll be a young man on your own one day and need to look after yourself. 😍
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    British expat exposes 'feral' Aussie shopping habits… Which ones are you guilty of?

    What a complete whinging Pom. Please go home where everythng is so perfect. I'm 76 still walk around in bare feet, I'll kiss my wife when ever and where ever I choose, you don't like rack off as we politely say here.
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    George Alagiah dies at 67: A salute to the BBC journalist whose endeavours travelled beyond the newsroom

    Beloved? I never heard if him. You guys need to buy a thesaurus your throwing that word around to everyone who dies lately 🙄
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    Breaking! Unexpected Security Breach Causes Massive Delays at Qantas Terminal

    I do agree that traveling is half the fun but these sort of delays through all this security gizmo and personnel that you I pay for that this could happen, the worst part it has happened more than once, they are spending so much time looking for toe nail clippers that they forget about the...
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    St Kilda Football Club mourns the loss of 1966 premiership hero Alan Morrow at age 86

    I guess it's me but where do you get "Loved" footballer from. I only love my wife and kids, I really like lots of other people and of course vanilla ice cream. But Love!!! Your losing the true meaning of the word, it's sad when you place your wife and kids the same a sports person. Please don't...
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    Kochie and Nat confront the NSW top cop over the controversial tasering incident caught on bodycam!

    You can say the same for the police, they can not be trained in everything that they are confronted with, neither had any idea what to do with that poor old woman, they just did what they always do when confronted with an armed assailant, if you could call her that.....
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    Kochie and Nat confront the NSW top cop over the controversial tasering incident caught on bodycam!

    I think your all missing the fact, the commissioner has to be impartial , if she saw the video before she has the facts it may effect her judgement. I think it was shocking (no pun intended) that two burly police officers had to taser a 95 year old woman. But I'd hate that the findings are...
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    Have you ever accidentally broken the law?

    We did the same😃,, had to drive 20k back to pay, same same the manager laughed and thanked us. The very next time there he bought us our first drinks.. Pays to be honest👍
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    Will Aussies have to publicly swear their loyalty to King Charles? Discover the surprising requirement for the coronation!

    i certainly do not care about Charlie and his coronation, to me the whole lot of them are just a tourist attraction similar to Adventure World. I would never call any of them by the titles that they have imposed on themselves, they are just like every one else as far as I am concerned, if you...
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    The SDC Newsletter Dawn Service: What ANZAC Day Means To You

    I attend every dawn service as too was in the military as a Gun Sargent 107 battery. But one of the main reason I and my wife attend is also because her Uncle Artu (Arthur) escaped from Poland when he was just 18, just before the German's invaded. He join Montgomery in Palestine and ended up in...
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    What are YOUR ‘green flags’?

    I'm not sure where or when it started but seem to remember an advert about WA saying how friendly we are as people wave. So I started doing to same, while on my bike or in my car, as people give way and allow me to pass, even if it is my right of way I wave and smile. The smile on their faces...
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    Are Senior Aussies Really Tech-Challenged? Debunking the Myth!

    I have to deal with seniors and technology everyday, for me its not that they do not understand as such it just they are afraid to break something and it may cost a lot to repair. Young ones don't seem to have that fear of paying our big hard earned dollars, so, they just have ago come what may.
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